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	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--
	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--
	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: 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--
	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--

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	Memorial Plaque to Sergey Dovlatov Installed in Ufa
	Bashkortostan Republic keeps memory of the famous Russian writer Sergey Dovlatov. The memorial plaque has been installed on the house, where Dovlatov spent his childhood.
--30-11-2011--