Biysk Local Lore Museum

Federal highway R256 Chuiski Most Viral,

Federal highway R256 Chuiski Most Viral,

Federal highway R256 Chuiski hit the top ten most beautiful roads in the world by the popular science magazine National Geographic.

Every year, thousands of Novosibirsk travel to Altai for one of the world's most beautiful roads. For the unprepossessing track names: Novosibirsk - Tashanta, M52 or R256 - is the incredible beauty that should see at least once in everyone's life. This ancient road - the first thread, connecting Russia and China many centuries ago. Continue on Chuysk - like having to cross the whole of Russia.

The path begins in Biysk, with birch groves and villages, one of which was born the writer Vasily Shukshin. And in a hundred kilometers, is to pass Gorno-Altaisk, it seems as if you find yourself in the time of development of Siberia: the stormy waters of Katun, rocky gorges and green valleys. Starting mountain taiga. You turn to the left - you will get to the Teletskoye Lake, to the right - to the magnificent Belukha, where Roerich Shambhala searched on the way to the Himalayas. And if you go straight all the time - will look Kurai steppe at the foot of North-Chuya ridge. If desired, you can drive a few kilometers and walk up to the eternal snows. The Kurai steppe meet last islands of the taiga, and already the pass begins the real steppe, where there are yurts and nomads wandering camel caravans. This trip is not necessary to plan for a week, after each turn - an occasion to separate a little trip.

References to the current Chui tract, formerly known as Mughal, you can find more in the Chinese thousands of years ago. From then until the beginning of XX century, it was just a mountain path, which was used by merchants and pilgrims journeyed to the sacred tree in the upper reaches of the Katun River. Wheeled road from Ongudai to Kosh-Agach (255 km) have arranged only by 1903. Today Chuiski - one of the few roads in the world, awarded his own museum. It is located in a building Biysk Local Lore Museum - here you can see archive documents and photos, surround the layout of the road, pictures and dioramas.

Barnaul

Barnaul is a city and the administrative center of Altai Krai, Russia, located along the Ob River in the West Siberian Plain. At the end of 2014, the city had a population of around 700,000 people. The population of the Barnaul metropolitan area is estimated to be over 1.14 million.


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