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 In the distant past, the Urals were called "Stone". Climb to the top of the mountain and look at the mountain ranges to the very horizon. To the east of them is Asia, to the west is Europe. At the very heart of the Urals - Sverdlovsk - there is an obelisk dividing two parts of the world. Every year tourists gather near it for the traditional rally "Europe - Asia".
The Ural beckons to itself in summer and winter and in the off-season. There are dozens of comfortable tourist hotels and bases. There are many routes along the mountains, rivers, valleys - hiking, horse skiing, water (on boats, rafts).
The all-Union route "Along the Belaya River on inflatable rafts" begins at the Agidel tourist center. seventy-six kilometers from Beloretsk. Before the hike, tourists make excursions to memorable places where in the XYIII century the revolted peasants under the leadership of Yemelyan Pugachev and Salavat Yulaev marched and units of the Red Army fought in the civil war.
The trip along the river is designed for almost two weeks. Through binoculars and with the naked eye, the rocks are clearly visible, where sometimes you will notice the black mouth of the cave. Agidel (as the Bashkirs call the White River) is rich fish, and its shores - with berries and mushrooms. At a halt, lunch cooked over a fire seems especially tasty. Sleep in a tent is strong, in the morning you get up vigorous. From the village of Yumaguzino, a bus takes travelers to Ufa. to the hotel "Tourist". In the remaining three days, tourists make city tours.
A trip along the Ural-Kame waterway leaves a pleasant impression. Hydroelectric dams have been built on a wide, deep river. even artificial seas have been created. Modern comfortable motor ships ply along the Kama. The largest port of the region is Perm, the city of glorious revolutionary and labor traditions. In the area of the famous Motovilikha, where a workers' uprising broke out in 1905. a monument is erected on the hill, the eternal flame is burning, a diorama is opened.
Tourists will also be interested in an excursion to the unique Kungur Ice Cave on the banks of the Sylva River in the Perm Region. In some of its halls ice stalactites and stalagmites sparkle all year round; in others, blocks of stone are heaped up like fabulous monsters. In the depths - the mirror surface of the lake. There is silence in the underground long labyrinths.
The walking route in the South Urals begins in the Chelyabinsk region at the Ilmenskaya camp site, in the vicinity of the lakes and mountains of the same name - spurs of the Main ridge. In 1920, the Ilmensky State Reserve was created here - a unique museum of minerals of flora and fauna. Tourists will see samples of gems, get acquainted with the flora and fauna of the Urals. will visit the homeland of Russian damask steel - in Zlatoust.
 Then the road will go through Chelyabinsk where the famous tractor plant was built during the first five-year plans. The exhibits presented in the ChTZ Museum recreate the atmosphere of those years and heroic days of the Great Patriotic War, when ChTZ was called Tankograd. A tank mounted on a pedestal near the plant reminds of this. Now, modern powerful tractors are rolling off the assembly line of this giant of mechanical engineering.
Whole rivers of iron and steel, endless strips of rolled products are provided by metallurgical plants, factories and workshops of the Urals. One cannot consider oneself to know this heroic land, if one does not visit Nizhny Tagil and Magnitogorsk.
The Magnitogorsk Combine stands on the left bank of the Ural River - in Asia, and the city is spread out on the right - in Europe. In its very center on the bank there is a concrete tent - a monument to the first builders of Magnitogorsk.
And how interesting it is to visit Sverdlovsk at the Uralmash! This plant, awarded with nine orders, the same age as Magnitka and the Chelyabinsk Tractor, is truly a plant of factories.Its products, for example, buckets, can be found at many metallurgical plants, and walking excavators are found in open pits where ore or coal is mined.
The Uralian, "brave and skillful", who is subject to the secrets of the bowels, was sung in his tales by Pavel Bazhov. The writer's house-museum was opened in Sverdlovsk. Here, in the center of the city and in the cemetery where the writer is buried, there are monuments.
V. M. Agapov
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