Siberia and Pacific

Russian Siberia and Far East together make the biggest part of the Russian territory stretching from the Urals Mountains up to the waters of the Pacific. And despite its wilderness, there are prosperous industrial centers in some small parts of the enormous territory. For a long time it has been used for exile. And up to the 1990 this place was closed for the foreign visitors. Today you have got a unique possibility to explore the wilderness and the prosperity of the region by yourself.

Siberia

There are not so many places in the world that can be really called untouched. Enormous forests of Siberia, beautiful lakes and unique mountains with some flora left from the pre-glacier times and thousands of other peculiarities of these places can be fairly called 'the wilderness'. Up to the present day there still exist vast areas of Siberia that have never experienced a human foot.

 


Kamchatka

Completely out of bounds for foreign visitors during the 20th century, the Kamchatka Peninsula is one of the most exotic and spectacular regions of Russia. A 1192 km long pristine wilderness on Russia's far eastern flank, it contains well over a hundred volcanoes, 33 still smoldering. Over the centuries volcanic activity has created a landscape literally out of this world.
 

Lake Baikal

Whatever you think about the evolution process, the Lake Baikal amazes. The Blue Eye of Siberia is possibly one of the busiest places in Russia. This gigantic crescent, cracked open to depths over than mile below the surface of the Siberian land is considered to be among the Seven Wonders of the World.
 

Tuva and Sayan

Located in the very center of Asia, so far from the sea and so close to Mongolia, Tuva is a country of great variety with luxuriant meadows, green taiga, boundless steppes, medicinal springs, beautiful lakes, rushing mountain rivers fed in spring by melting snows, dusty semi-desert and snowy chains of mountains.
 

Altai

The Altai mountain system covers a vast region located in four different countries: Russia, Kazakhstan, China and Mongolia. The highest part, called the High or Central Altai, lies on Russian territory and rises up to 4506m (Mt. Belukha) the highest point of Siberia, much of this region is glaciated. The word "Altai" is translated from turkic languages as "golden mountains".
 

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