This amazingly beautiful Siberian regioncharms everyone visiting these places. What could be more beautiful than the harsh, but majestic mountains with alpine flowers, blue lakes, crystal clear, turbulent rivers and unique bright representatives of the plant world? Where is Khakassia, and what natural and historical sights does it have? All this in brief can be found in this article.
Geographical position, population
Республика Хакасия, образовавшаяся в 1923 году, part of the Siberian Federal District. Location - Eastern Siberia (south-western part), the left side of the Yenisei River basin. Where the Republic of Khakassia is located, the Sayan-Altai Highlands and the Khakass-Minusinsk Basin are stretched. It occupies a significant part of these territories.
Khakassia is bordered by the Krasnoyarsk Territory in the east and southeast, the Republic of Tyva in the south, Altai in the southwest, and the Kemerovo Region in the east.
Its area is about 62 square meters.
More than 500 thousand people inhabit the republic, the urban population accounts for more than 70% of the total.
Terrain features, climate
Sayan Mountains (2000 m) occupy more than halfterritories and are located in the west and south of the republic. The largest rivers are the Abakan, the Yenisei, the Tom, the White and the Black Iyus. All of them flow where the Republic of Khakassia is located.
The climate is sharply continental.The winter period is cold and little snow, with an average January temperature down to -21 ° С. Hot summer (up to +19 ° C), but cooler in the mountains. Precipitation falls in the valleys in the amount of 300 mm per year, in the mountains - 700 mm.
Representatives of flora and fauna, minerals
What representatives of flora and fauna represent and inhabit the territories where Khakassia is located?
Республика расположена в лесостепной и степной zones. In the lower parts of the basins there are dry steppes, on the outskirts there are steppes with different grasses and forest-steppe. On the slopes of the Kuznetsk Alatau - the taiga of larches and pines, and on the slopes of the Abakan Range and the Western Sayans - fir and cedar forests. The total forest area is about 4 million hectares.
Live here animals, birds and fish:the mole, the columns, the ermine, the hare, the squirrel, the wolf, the bear, the fox, the hazel grouse, the capercaillie, the tench, the trout, the burbot, etc. There are in the territory of the republic and reserves: “Chazy” and “Little Abakan”.
The capital of Khakassia, life in suburban areas of the republic
The capital of the Republic is Abakan.The first mentions of it are noted in the 19th century, when Ust-Abakan village became the center of the Kachinskaya Duma, which consisted of only 21 courtyards. Now Abakan is a developed industrial, cultural, historical and scientific center, where there is a wonderful museum of local lore, an exhibition hall, an arboretum and a zoo. Most of the capital is occupied by gardens, boulevards and squares with numerous green areas.
Khakass villages are located on the same placeswhere the ancestors of modern Khakas once lived. These residential areas have grown, and they are connected by numerous railways and highways. Where Khakassia is located (Abakan, as already mentioned, is the capital of the republic), people, as before, live in the neighborhood with huge stones.
Classes of residents, as well as before, are associated with the breeding and raising of cattle: sheep and horses. The life of local people has not changed much over the past hundreds of years.
sights
The territory where Khakassia is located(Khakass-Minusinsk Basin) is one of the ancient centers of human civilization, where unique cultural and historical landscapes have been formed over many millennia. There is a museum in which are collected huge collections of art of antiquity.
There are natural monuments:Kashkulakskaya cave (9 km south of aal Topanov), the length of which is 820 m; State Reserve "Khakassky", which is an environmental, scientific and educational environmental institution of state importance; mountain ridge "Chests"; Ivanovo lakes; ancient site Paleolithic (Little Syya); Chebaki fortress and many other attractions. In total, in Khakassia, there are almost 30 thousand monuments of ancient history.
Lake Bele: where is it located?
Khakassia (the city of Abakan - 180 km from thisreservoir) has a unique healing lake Bele, located in the center of the republic, not far from the settlement of Zhemchuzhny (yes, it is 16 km) and 8 km from Lake Shira. This is the largest lake of the republic. It differs from others in that the water in Bela does not cast an azure. There are more warm colors, soft and faded. There are beliefs about the monsters living in it.
It is not known what contributed to the appearance of such a legend, but some mystery exists in the lake. For example, seals live in this salty and isolated reservoir.
Where is Khakassia? In very attractive places with its exotic, where there are numerous silent stones, which embody the imprints of the life of people of previous millennial eras.
