100 Wonders in the Urals. Natural and Man-Made (100 чудес Урала. Природные и рукотворные)

Kirjeldus

Creating wonders and being able to see the miraculous in the surrounding world is an essential need of humanity verified by thousands of years. The book you are holding in your hands now is also a wonder of its own kind. Written in the genre of a research-guidebook it aspires to the quality of a scientific publication and presents the essential list of rare and exclusive objects of Russian and even of world importance. All of the 100 outstanding sights of interest in the Great Urals are accessible for tourist trips by car, train or air. Ten of these are made up by the diverse and original capital cities of its ten areas: Sverdlovsk Oblast, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Kurgan Oblast, Tyumen Oblast, Orenburg Oblast, Perm Krai, KhMAO (Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug), YaNAO (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug), Republic of Bashkortostan and Republic of Komi. 90 more unusual places are located outside these urban areas. .