The Altai mountains in southern Siberia form the major mountain range in the western Siberia biogeographic region and provide the source of its greatest rivers – the Ob and the Irtysh. Three separate ...

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Despite the assimilation of the Soviet times, the Central Asian traditional sport of goat dragging has survived, and one of the oldest Turkic games is still practiced in the mountains of Altai.

The two component parts – the Altai Tavan Bogd National Park and one section of the Siilkhem Mountain National Park – exhibit ... sequence of altitudinal vegetation zones in central Siberia, ranging ...

The number of people evacuated from flood-hit areas in Siberia’s Altai region has reached 1,682 BARNAUL, March 29. /TASS/. The number of people evacuated from flood-hit areas in Siberia’s ...

This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the Altay Mountains of southern Siberia, some 200 miles from where Russia touches Mongolia, China, and Kazakhstan ...

MOSCOW (AP) — An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 struck Russia’s Altai Republic in southern Siberia on Saturday morning, according to Russian seismologists. The quake occurred at 8:48 a. MOSCOW (AP ...