Belokurikha met us with Sunny weather, lush colours, alleys and… unusual silence. Mid – June- the height of the tourist season. Usually at this time on the popular Siberian resort are always Packed. But now there’s desert: no queues at the cafe and pools don’t work, no walking on walnut Avenue. Picture from the movie about the Apocalypse: billboards touting tours and delicacies, and on the streets – not a soul.
But the resort town still gradually comes to life from the “pandemic hibernation” – in the Parking lots of the resorts have cars with numbers of other regions. The first guests to unload the Luggage, in a hurry to move, to walk, to breathe the clean mountain air. Longing for relaxing tourists arrive to Belokurikha from all over Siberia – from Novosibirsk, Kemerovo regions, Krasnoyarsk and Altai territories, the Yamalo-Nenets and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous districts. And Ramil, and Elsa Aupova with two young daughters arrived from Neftekamsk (Republic of Bashkortostan).
a Vacation planned long ago, before the start of the pandemic, – says Ramil Ayupov. – Worried that due to quarantine restrictions it fails. But we were lucky – right before the trip to the Altai Republic opened a sanatorium, so don’t have to move the rest or to opt out of the permit.
Ayupova in Belokurikha for the first time. Arrived at the Altai resort on the advice of friends.
We have a good rest. Of course, we have to go everywhere wearing masks, but even children belong to this with understanding. But enjoy the peace and lack of crowds – says, Elza Ayupova.
Aupova settled in the sanatorium “Belokurikha”. Just last week resumed work five out of fifteen resorts, including the three largest – “Russia”, “Altai-West” and “Belokurikha”. Daily calls for ten or fifteen people, so that by the end of June, guests on the resort will be several hundred. But a hundred percent fill housing will not work.
– We accommodate guests in one room, together Selim families, – explained the Director of “Belokuriha” Helen Engelhardt. – At the entrance to the resort, mandatory monitoring of the temperature, it is measured daily and leisure travelers and employees. At the reception, in the restaurant halls and other common areas marking, to limit the contacts of tourists.
All medical procedures now only individual. According to the head physician of sanatorium Oksana Korsakova, after each procedure clinics are treated with disinfectant so that you can take the following resting. Pools and other collective health centers don’t work. And most importantly, the guests of the sanatorium can accept only in the presence of otricatelno�� test COVID-19 and certificate of absence of contact with infected.
the Family Ayubovich didn’t confuse difficulty with passing tests and getting certificates. “Understand that we need to fulfill all the requirements of sanitary inspectors, in order not to spoil the holiday yourself or others. And with the receipt of these documents, we have special problems did not arise,” – says the head of the family.
But not everyone can do quickly and without problems to issue the necessary certificates. As told the correspondent “RG” the head of the Directorate of health resorts of Belokurikha Sergei Krivoruchenko, many tourists have experienced difficulties with their receipt.
– But still need to issue a sanatorium card, although clinics now there is no planned admission. Therefore, many who had booked places failed to execute all documents. And now they carry or leave or even refuse packages. In such circumstances, it is difficult to predict how many tourists in June and in General this season will come in Belokurikha. Everything will depend on the epidemiological situation, – said Sergey Krivoruchenko.
And those who still managed to help and to come to the resort, enjoy the local beauty, walking the paths and health paths, take not only medical but also the sun. Before lunch, the campers day is painted on minutes: the appointment procedure, rest after treatment. And after lunch the visitors crave entertainment, which, however, in terms of quarantine restrictions in Belokurikha is a little bit. The outdoor pools and beaches. Do not take visitors to museums, you can not sit even in the summer the outdoor café – the food here is take-out only. What to do for travelers?
first and foremost communication with the Altai nature, to walk there are no restrictions. You can climb to the Church or to go to the foot of the mountains Four brothers. On the chair lift it will be faster – from the height of bird flight you can see the entire three-year project. However the lift is working only three days a week – Friday, Saturday and Sunday. You can ride on mountain serpentine on the construction of the resort “Belokuriha-2”, to watch the old merchant’s house in St. Andrew Sloboda, take your picture on a huge chair and “the stone” from the movie “kin-DZA-DZA”. But the chocolate Museum and the popular restaurant “Gogol” is closed.
In the Belokurikha you can go to the Museum of smithery. Known all over the country Smith Anna Biletsky ready to take on the tour so far, only individual families, but not groups. “I hope that in the near future will remove all restrictions and vacationers can do to forge yourself a keychain in memory of Belokurikha”, – said Anna.
Konstantin Bazarov, the head of the city Belokurikha:
In the coming weeks, the resort will gradually open all health centers with medical licenses. And then, as the lifting of restrictions, beginning��ut to work with hotels, hostels and pensions. For the city, specializing in SANATORNO-resort activity and tourism, it is of great importance. After almost two and a half months most businesses belokurikhi idle.
