Michael Maltsev, Executive Director of the Ural tourism Association:
One of the underrated tourist facilities in the Sverdlovsk region Museum of military equipment under Ekaterinburg, the Top Pyshma. I visited many automotive museums in the United States, the Czech Republic and can note the high, indeed the world, the level of the Ural Museum complex. A huge collection of military equipment under the open sky, a unique exposition of cars in the spacious halls. All in excellent condition, a modern Museum of technology
Dmitry Kleymenov, Director of the Ural geological Museum uggu:
– Ural – a unique geological and mineralogical province, which has no analogues in the world. And it largely determines the great potential of tourist attractiveness of the region. Here found the first Russian gold mine platinum, diamonds and emeralds, alexandrite and demantoid garnet. We have a stunning gold Museum in the Berezovsky – there you can descend into a real mine, interesting displays in our Museum, the Museum of lapidary art and the Museum of nature. Near the village Palkino is pomegranate Kopi – scenic places, where underfoot, you can find crystals of almandine. In the village of Malyshev emerald mine, where lead tours, near Bazhenovskoe asbestos quarry with a length of eleven kilometers, demonstrating the power of gornozavodskogo Urals. In the vicinity of Sysert – place of the first finds of planarity, mineral, forming a beautiful blue crust on quartz, near the Oblique Ford – territory, where they found communities and chorioid
Marina Martishina, head of the Department of culture and youth policy of administration of the Shuryshkarsky district of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous district:
– for 17 years the district conducts a youth tourist expedition “Odysseus” for teen by the lake Varchato. Mountain Ob, leading there, is shallower very quickly, so to get to the place only once a year – at the end of June. Guys carry on the jet boat to the lake, where they are camping and then rafting on the kayaks. They are accompanied by teachers, counselors, a lifeguard, a medical worker and cook who grew up in these parts. Young people are taught survival techniques in the wild
Michael Savchenko, head of the Russian geographical society’s branch in Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous district – Yugra:
Our region is primarily a unique, pristine nature of the polar Urals. Rivers and lakes with incredible fishing, mountain Neroika and folk, mysterious mountain, the Pyramid, inside of which at the turn of XIX-XX centuries was looking for something British, and later the expedition of researchers under the auspices of the NKVD. In Ugra amazing opportunities for the development of ethno-tourism – visit authentic sites of the reindeer
Paul Sitnikov, the famous sciItalian naturalist and traveller:
– In the Tyumen region in addition to widely known in the country and the world attractions (all within the boundaries of cities) there are secret corners, attracting the connoisseurs of wild nature, unusual landscapes, and archaeology. For example, in Ingalskaya the valley with more than fifty archaeological monuments from the stone age to the middle ages. Nearby, next to the river Iset, Maryino gorge with very rare species of flora. In the South-East of the region – Salt lake, which compare therapeutic properties of the Dead sea. An unforgettable visit to the “cemetery” of mammoths. We usually look for the remains of prehistoric giants in the bottom of the river: we go into it, when the water level is not above the waist, and feet groping. To stumble on a fragment of a Tusk – luck frequent
Alexander Vinogradov, the head of the city of Troitsk, Chelyabinsk region:
– Troitsk – old merchant town with a long Cossack traditions and truly unique architecture. This southern Outpost of the province, stood on the great caravan routes, and was once much more famous than its neighbour to the North, Chelyabinsk. However, long left in the direction of the financial flows and because of this has retained in its original form hundreds of historical objects related to the Pugachev rebellion, the Cossacks and the merchant outlaws. Immediately strikingly elegant architecture and a surprising property: the number of Sunny days in a year, he competes in Sochi and literally draws the sun. Treated sunbathing and Mare in our resort went in the nineteenth century
Natalia Tretyakova, head of tourism development Department of economic development of the Kurgan region:
– In the Kurgan region has a unique bear lake in which you cannot drown, but can be healed. According to legend, a long time ago to the lake every morning, a bear come in and dropped him with a sore paw. Soon the bear recovered, and the pond took its shape. The lake is very salty, as brine, it does not grow algae and not the fish lives. There live small crabs and shrimp. They produce nutritious enzymes. In the summer of crustaceans is so much that the water becomes brown. Even here the mud is healing, and all around very beautiful nature
Alexander Glazkov, the head of Satkinsky municipal district of Chelyabinsk region:
– Our city is one of the most attractive places of the southern Urals, with the great outdoors, beautiful landscapes – no wonder the surrounding area of the city called Ural Switzerland. Powerful industrial potential of the city combined with a thrust to the culture. The site of Magnezit Group, Russian leader in the production of refractory materials, attracts fans of industrial tourism. Allocate Satka and new ideas to improve public spaces. St��be unlike any other she has helped the international festival of street art. Russian foreign masters of street art was used as canvases for the walls of the houses, leaving the inhabitants of their work. The city was enriched with interesting architectural decisions another festival – “My month”: on the streets there were many art objects, the likes of which is nowhere else to meet. Satka is known as a venue for international festival of classical music “Carmen”, at the root of which stood the Opera diva Yelena Obraztsova. It is a cultural event that brings thousands of fans of high art, has become a hallmark of the city.
