Rudny Altai (also called Eastern Kazakhstan) is an inexhaustible treasure trove of vivid impressions and amazing discoveries.
The vast territory in the heart of Eurasia has absorbed the pristine beauty of the Siberian taiga, Asian deserts and steppes. Flora and fauna is rich. The foothills of Altai preserve innumerable evidences of human staying here since times immemorial. Almost all cultures and peoples of Eurasia have left their traces here: mounds, remains of dwellings, sanctuaries and sign systems. There are galleries of petroglyphs.
If you come here, you will certainly hear that the entire Great Britain or, for example, two Greeks could fit into the territory of Eastern Kazakhstan. And local guides will not fail to point out that this is where the so-called pole of continentality is located - a point equidistant from all the oceans. It is marked near the house-museum of the great Kazakh poet Abay.
Eastern Kazakhstan includes almost all landscape zones. The northern and eastern part of the region's territory is occupied by the foothills and ridges of the Western, Central and Southern Altai, which contains the richest reserves of non-ferrous, precious and rare-earth metals.
