This amazingly beautiful Siberian region captivates everyone who visits these places. What can be more beautiful than harsh, but majestic mountains with alpine flowers, blue lakes, crystal clear stormy rivers and unique bright representatives of the plant world? Where is Khakassia located, and what natural and historical sights does it have? All of this briefly can be found in this article.
Geographical location, population
The Republic of Khakassia, formed in 1923, is part of the Siberian Federal District. Location - Eastern Siberia (southwestern part), the left side of the Yenisei river basin. Where the Republic of Khakassia is located, the Sayano-Altai Highlands and the Khakass-Minusinsk Basin extend. It occupies a significant part of these territories.
Khakassia borders on the Krasnoyarsk Territory in the east and southeast, the Republic of Tyva in the south, Altai in the southwest, and the Kemerovo Region in the east.
Its area is about 62 thousand km².
More than 500 thousand people inhabit the republic, the urban population makes up more than 70% of the total.
Relief features, climate
The Sayan Mountains (2000 m) occupy more than half of the territory and are located in the west and south of the republic. The largest rivers are Abakan, Yenisei, Tom, Bely and Black Iyus. All of them flow where the Republic of Khakassia is located.
The climate here is sharply continental. The winter period is cold and light snowy, with an average January temperature of -21 ° C. Hot summer (up to +19 ° С), but cooler in the mountains. Precipitation falls in the valleys in the amount of 300 mm per year, in the mountains - 700 mm.
Representatives of flora and fauna, minerals
What representatives of flora and fauna represent and inhabit those territories where Khakassia is located?
The republic is located in the forest-steppe and steppe zones. In the lower parts of the basins there are dry steppes, along the outskirts there are steppes with different herbs and a forest-steppe. On the slopes of the Kuznetsk Alatau - taiga of larch and pine trees, and on the slopes of the Abakan ridge and the Western Sayans - fir and cedar forests. The total forest area is about 4 million hectares.
Animals, birds and fish live here: mole, columns, ermine, hare, squirrel, wolf, bear, fox, hazel grouse, capercaillie, tench, taimen, burbot, etc. There are also reserves in the republic: Chazy and Maly Abakan"
The capital of Khakassia, life in the suburban areas of the republic
The capital of the Republic is Abakan. The first mention of it was noted in the 19th century, when the Ust-Abakan village became the center of the Kachin Duma, which consisted of only 21 courtyards. Now Abakan is a developed industrial, cultural, historical and scientific center, where there is a wonderful local history museum, an exhibition hall, an arboretum and a zoo. Most of the capital is occupied by gardens, boulevards and squares with numerous green spaces.
Khakass villages are located in the same places where the ancestors of modern Khakasses once lived. These residential areas have grown, and they are connected by the numerous highways of railways and highways. Where Khakassia is located (Abakan, as already mentioned, is the capital of the republic), people, as before, live next to huge stones.
The occupations of the inhabitants, as before, are connected with raising and raising cattle: sheep and horses. The life of local people has not changed much over the past hundreds of years.
sights
The territory where Khakassia is located (Khakassia-Minusinsk depression) is one of the ancient centers of human civilization, where unique cultural and historical landscapes formed over many millennia. There is a museum here, which contains huge collections of works of art of antiquity.
There are also natural monuments: Kashkulakskaya Cave (9 km south of Topan aal), the length of the passages of which is 820 m; State Reserve "Khakassky", which is an environmental, scientific and educational environmental institution of national importance; ridge mountain "Chests"; Ivanovo Lakes; ancient Paleolithic site (Malaya Syya); Chebaki fortress and many other attractions. In total, in Khakassia there are almost 30 thousand monuments of ancient history.
