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Nurali mountain range

3-08-2010 by Ira Travina in Lake and Mountains 0 Comments

In late July I took a day trip to the mountain range Nurali. It is located in Uchalinsky region of Bashkortostan but very close to Miass town of Chelyabinsk region. The relief of the ridge Nurali differs somewhat from the rest of the Southern Urals. The mountains are bare and brown, as in Tajikistan. They are pretty low, just about 800 meters high, but the impression is as if you climb high mountains. On the top you can see all the beauty of this mountainous country: no people, no empty bottles. This place looks very rough and even scary to climb up the ridge.
On the one of the pictures is the lake Aushkul. Lake water seems green because of the mineral bottom. Actually it’s not so far from a large deposit of copper ore in Uchalinsky region of Bashkortostan. Click picture to see photo album:

   
 Nurali mountain range
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Ural lakes, Russia

14-07-2010 by Ira Travina in Lake 0 Comments
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Turgoyak, Chelyabinsk region, Russia
 

Zyuratkul reserve, Chelyabinsk region, Russia
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Russian sauna (‘banya’), Chelyabinsk

7-03-2010 by Marina Volkova in Lake and Wellness 0 Comments

Chelyabinsk is surrounded by several lakes. One of them – Smolino lake – is a favorite vacation spot of townpeople at any time of year.

In the middle of the lake  there is a floating sauna which is used from early spring to late autumn. You can go out of the sauna and immediately start swimming in the lake.

In winter time sauna is pulled closer to the beach and next to it the big ice-holes are cut. In the Russian sauna (‘banya’) it is normal first to use birch twigs and then jump into the cold water. When the pictures were took, the temperature was -28C, so instead of jumping into the ice-hole we prefered to take cold bucket shower. Wonderful!

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