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	Russian National Parks: "Bashkiria"
	National Park "Bashkiria" is the perfect place for nature lovers. Tourists are attracted by picturesque forests, fast rivers and many mysterious caves.
--13-06-2019--
	Ecotourism in Bashkiria: the Village of Kaga
	Kaga is one of the most distinctive and colorful villages in Bashkiria, where ecotourism is actively developing.
--26-03-2019--
	Bashkir Cuisine – Top 5 National Dishes to Taste When Travelling in Ufa
	If you have long wanted to visit exotic Bashkortostan and its capital city, Ufa, and you wonder what you are going to eat there, then this article is meant specially for you.
--23-07-2018--
	History Of Sibai
	According to a legend, a hunter from the village of Old Sibai found red clay while digging a marten’s hole in early XX century.
--16-02-2017--
	Industrial Sibai
	A large industrial town of Sibai lives on ore mining, and its main attraction is the quarry for copper extraction striking with its size.
--14-02-2017--
	Sibai: Travel Tips
	The town has three hotels: “Sibai” - an old hotel built in Soviet times, “Tatiana” - a small and comfortable hotel with tea and coffee in rooms, and “The Golden Yurt” - a new hotel in a European style.
--13-02-2017--
	Republic of Bashkortostan: Salavat - the City Of Oil
	Salavat located in the very heart of Bashkiria is an oil city. Oil literally feeds and nurses it. Thanks to it, Salavat is considered the most favorable small city of Bashkiria.
--12-02-2017--
	Sibai Quarry: Visiting Tips
	Sibay quarry belongs to private secure facilities, so it is impossible to easily approach it.
--09-02-2017--
	Bashkiria: Tanalyk Town
	This town was initially called Tanalyk in the name of the eponymous river and was literally razed to the ground several years after it had appeared.
--31-12-2016--
	Travelling to Voznesenka Village
	It is not easy to reach Voznesenka: you may choose only a bus from Uchalov as a public transport.
--17-12-2016--
	Bashkiria: Agidel - City Of Expectations
	Agidel stands at the confluence of the White River and the Kama River.
--18-10-2016--
	Sibai
	If you look at Sibai and its career from the top, with a decent height, you will see a huge hole in the ground that resembles an imprint into the ground of giant pyramid.
--09-04-2016--
	Bashkiria: Yumaguzinskoye Water Reservoir
	When it was fashionable to turn the rivers back and do the man-made sea, Yumaguzinskoye water reservoir project was come up. It was assumed that the water reservoir built near the homonymous hydroelectric station will allow providing water supply to the regions of the Bashkir Trans-Urals, as well as the cities: Sterlitamak, Salavat and Ishimbay.
--06-04-2016--
	Bashkiria: Go Fishing to Yumaguzinskoye Reservoir
	The only company that provides the touristic services on the territory of the reservoir is the administration of National Park. The list of services includes horseback riding (1000 rubles per 3-4 hours) and boat trips on the floating landing stage.
--05-04-2016--
	Starobayramgulovo
	Starobayramgulovo is a quiet place, but it is well-known among the Muslim pilgrims.
--15-12-2015--
	Stonehenge of Bashkiria
	The Megalithic complex near the village of Akhunovo is willingly called “Bashkir Stonehenge” and “the oldest observatory in Europe”.
--02-02-2015--
	Bashkiria: Sterlitamak Sheehans
	Not far from the town of Sterlitamak, in the valley of the Belaya River, one can see famous lone mountains, Sterlitamak sheehans. The highest mountain is Tratau (Horse Mountain), the longest one - Kushtau (Bird Mountain), a smaller one - Yuraktau (Heart Mountain)... and the former biggest of the four Shakhtau (King Mountain).
--15-01-2015--
	Bashkiria: Arsky Stone
	Arsky Kamen (“Arsky Stone”) is the name of the village in Beloretsk District of Bashkiria, the tourist centre next to it and the natural monument near the Belaya River. A white-gray sheer limestone cliff covered with green plants has long attracted curious travelers: they say the “peasant king” Emelyan Pugachev hid weapons and treasures looted from the landlords in its cave.
--12-01-2015--
	Bashkiria: Legends of the Karagai Lake
	The lake in the village of Voznesenka in Uchalinsky District has several names: Karagaily, Karagaikul, Karagaika, Vorozheich. “Karagai” means pine, “Kule” – lake in Bashkir. A plate saying “Karagai Kul” is installed at the access road to the lake.
--09-01-2015--
	Inzerskie Zubchatki of Bashkortostan
	Inzerskie Zubchatki is a small mountain range located in Beloretsky District of Bashkortostan. Zubchatki stand in the mid-way between Yamantau, the highest peak of the Southern Urals, and Iremel – a mountain range which is extremely popular among tourists and esoterics. The main attraction of Inzerskie Zubchatki is Zubtsy (real “Teeth”) in the northern part of the range.
--05-01-2015--
	History Of Bashkir Stonehenge
	It is believed that the Bashkir menhirs (sacred stones) were opened by an Akhunovo aboriginal, a romantic regional historian Zhavdat Talgatovich Aitov. “Opened” is a relative term in this case, because menhirs always stood on this arable local land. Everyone saw them and treated them with care and respect, as an old sanctuary. Menhirs were preserved even when stones for collective farms were collected in the neighborhood.
--18-12-2014--
	Bashkir Stonehenge
	The Megalithic complex near the village of Akhunovo is willingly called “Bashkir Stonehenge” and “the oldest observatory in Europe”.
--16-12-2014--
	Hippotherapy Center in Ufa
	Federation of Hippotherapy to be established in the Republic of Bashkortostan. Horses will help to rehabilitate disabled people.
--27-03-2014--
	Bashkortostan Wins Hearts Of Foreign Journalists
	Tourism Agency of Bashkortostan initiated a route for international media representatives. The group of journalists from Xinhua News Agency (PRC), “Berliner Zeitung” (Germany), “Le Figaro” (France), “Le Temps” (Switzerland) and “Russia Beyond the Headlines” international project of “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” have visited Muradymovskoye Ravine, “Bashkir Village” tourist base and Yumaguzino Reservoir.
--26-07-2013--
	The Lucky Cave of Kapova
	The Kapova cave (or Shulgan-Tash), famous with its beautiful cave paintings of the Paleolithic age, is situated in the Bashkortostan Republic, on the Belaya River in the mountains of the South Ural on the territory the Shulgan-Tash nature reserve. The cave is interesting not only because of the paintings; its interior is notable too. It is well-known between the tourists and the scientists as well. The museum of The Kapova Cave is opened in it, and a spelaean laboratory will be opened soon.
--15-10-2010--

News:

	Archeological Excavation in Unique "Cemetery" of Cave Lions in Bashkiria
	Russian scientists are ready for excavation of the first-ever mass burial of cave lions.
--08-07-2016--
	Man Saved Four Fellow Villagers from Burning House in Bashkiria
	A local dweller noticed flaming light from a house in Sukkulovo Settlement of the Yermekeyev District.
--16-12-2014--
	Remains of Woolly Rhinoceros Found in Bashkiria
	Local dweller has found bones of the woolly rhinoceros in the Karmaskalin District of Bashkiria.
--02-12-2014--
	10 Year-Old Hero Awarded in Bashkiria
	10-year-old Semyon Shmatko has been awarded the Life Saving Medal by the RF EMERCOM.
--15-10-2014--
	National Tourist Routes In Bashkiria
	The need for creation of national tourist routes is being discussed in Bashkiria.
--16-04-2014--
	Eastern Mari Dance Sets The Record
	New world record of longest Eastern Mari dance was set at "Silver Rope 2013" festival in Bashkiria. The length of dancing line reached 2 km 300 m.
--31-08-2013--
	2000-Year-Old Ornaments Found by Archeologists in Bashkiria
	Archeologists have found 2000-year-old ornaments near Kipchakovo Village of the Ilishevsk District in Bashkiria.
--24-07-2013--
	Lung-Shaped Ashtray Monument Set Up in Bashkiria
	An unusual ashtray has appeared in Salavat. It depicts a gravestone with attached lungs filled with cigarette stubs.
--26-06-2013--
	Horse Tourism in Bashkiria
	The government of Bashkiria intends to create the center of horse tourism development.
--31-05-2013--
	First Dinopark Opens in Bashkiria
	The first recreation park dedicated to dinosaurs, "Dinozavrik", started its work last weekend in Abzelilovksy region, Bashkiria.
--20-07-2012--
	Grave of Ataman Yermak Probably Found in Bashkiria
	Regional historians have found in the Miyakinsky Region of Bashkiria a grave, in which the legendary Cossack ataman Yermak Timofeyevich was buried, as scientists assume.
--07-05-2012--
	Unique Cave Shulgan-Tash May be Included in the UNESCO List
	A wildlife monument of Bashkiria - the Shulgan-Tash cave - may be included in the UNESCO World heritage list.
--19-04-2012--
	Open-Air Architecture Museum to Appear in Ufa
	A republican historical and cultural museum of wooden architecture may appear in Ufa.
--17-04-2012--
	Biospheric Reserve to be Established in Bashkiria
	The first biospheric reserve in the Urals - “Bashkir Ural” - will be created in the Republic of Bashkiria.
--10-02-2012--
	Garbage Museum to be Created in Bashkiria
	Activists of ecological movements of Bashkiria Republic have announced creation of a republican museum of interesting and dangerous finds from garbage.
--26-01-2012--
	First Energy-Efficient Residential Quarter in Russian to be Built in Ufa
	The first energy-saving many-storeyed house in Russia will be built in Ufa (Bashkiria) in 2012.
--18-01-2012--
	Bog and Cave in Bashkiria Recognized Nature Sanctuaries
	Four nature sites have been registered among the new nature sanctuaries of the Republic of Bashkiria.
--12-01-2012--