Well, where else will see gleaming ultra-modern shops, offices of glass and concrete and the next - wooden houses? Almost impossible to imagine that the sun it only 80 years ago on the present city of "white collar" gurgled the taiga, and its future builders cut a first in the deep forest glades, now became wide avenues.
; that the first five-storey building has appeared in the Khanty-Mansiysk, just 30 years ago. What is the status of the city, he received only 1950 m, united with an old village Yamskikh Samarova, which according to legend, stopped driving on the road in Berezovsky link "poluderzhavny lord" Prince Menshikov. And all this - about him, Khanty-Mansiysk, the capital of Ugra. And the explanation of the striking changes of the past fifteen years is simple: windfalls from oil production were generously replenish the city's budget, and it transformed the recent remote province. Khanty-Mansiysk literally bloomed. Therefore, many guests of Khanty-Mansiysk - and this is ongoing and participants on a regular basis is the Russian championship and world biathlon track is laid in the heart of the city, and the delegates a variety of forums, meetings and conferences, and just tourists - seeking always to make at least a small tour to get acquainted with its attractions.
Our readers, too, can participate in guided tours, which we will begin with a visit to a unique natural park "Samarovsky Chugas. Chugas Khanty called towering above the floodplain of the river island, covered with taiga forest c its intoxicating aroma and the magical singing of birds. Here you can dial the famous pine nuts and quench your thirst tasty and curative mineral water from source to stream valleys. And in an ethnographic park, open-air museum "Torum-Maa", which translated from the language of the Mansi means "divine, the sacred land," will tell you and show you how we lived here in ancient times ugry. The park has played summer camp of the Khanty, Mansi northern winter settlement and sanctuary of the Ob-Ugric peoples.
Worth visiting, and on top of Chugas to the observation platform of the monument To the Conquerors of Siberia to see how the mighty Irtysh falls in love with the Ob. The very same 80-meter-high monument in the shape of a pyramid of glass and white concrete is visible from almost anywhere in the city. In the first tier of the monument is a restaurant where you will be served well-known Siberian muskunom, royal Sos'va herring or legendary Irtysh sterlet. The perimeter of the monument is decorated with reliefs dedicated to the history of development of Ugra. Here you will meet with the owner Belogorskogo town - Ostyak Prince of Samara, on whose behalf, and named the surrounding area and which defeated the team's associate Ermak Bogdan Bryazki, with himself the conqueror of Siberia by Yermak Yershov, with the Russian Cossacks and changing them in the twentieth century brave geologamipervoprohodtsami.
In 2007, the equipped retaining wall appeared ... a herd of mammoths - a leader, and after wandering brethren. Incidentally, this is not believed that the mammoths died out completely. From time to time evidence of local hunters and fishermen, who saw in the Deaf Siberian forests on the shores of lakes and rivers of the giant "elephant, covered with hair." And on the beliefs Ugrians mammoths after befell Earth universal catastrophe became very cautious and timid, had gone into deep caves. Therefore, the chances of seeing them is minimal. And how can one explain the fact that in the XVIII-XIX centuries from Siberia to European part of Russia received tens of thousands of tusks of mammoths, caught by local hunters? Mammoths are still alive or not, clearly we can not say, but the view going about their business on the side of the herd Chugas charms.
Mammoth theme continues and the exposition of the Museum of Nature and Man, where in addition to the traditional skeletons of products made from tusks shows and the latest technical innovations. Three-dimensional graphics can actually "revive" the mammoth - and you'll hear the shrill trumpet sounds, and feel the shakes the earth passing near a herd of giant animals. In the evenings the image of these monsters with the characteristic scales is projected onto the next grove, forcing pedestrians to disclose their mouths in astonishment and accelerate the move.
The same astonishment paralyzed and visitors to showcase the Museum of Geology , oil and gas. In 1998, on the banks of rivers Lepley Alex Kurikov reindeer herder found the mineral in the shape of a ball. He himself felt in this superstitious terror and did not dare to even touch finds, which eventually turned into a museum after five years. This ball is a diameter of 15 cm weighs 3 kg, and geologists are still unable to determine its composition. Many tend to believe that he is a wonderful, almost extraterrestrial origin.
In the one hundred thousandth of the Khanty-Mansiysk, small, in fact, the town, new hotels grow like mushrooms after rain. This is understandable: the city is continuously taking delegations of various levels, here, as it were, flowing into one another, by a variety of summits and congresses. Breath of money and the black gold is felt everywhere here: the abundance of gleaming sides brand new cars, robust housing, replacing dilapidated wooden shacks on the comfortable home by the presence of beautiful girls in department stores and numerous recreational facilities. So, whatever the purpose of your visit, the capital of Ugra you remember his dynamism and originality.