Bashkiria National Park
Bashkiria National Park is located on the southwestern spurs of the ancient Ural Mountains, west of the Uraltau watershed ridge, in the southeastern part of Bashkortostan, on the territory of three administrative districts: Meleuzovsky, Kugarchinsky, Burzyansky. The reserve was established on September 11, 1986. The area of the park “Bashkiria” is 82 300 hectares. About 30,000 people visit the territory of the park every year. The most attractive places are the Belaya and Nugush rivers, the Nugush reservoir, the Kuperlinsky karst bridge (the remains of a collapsed karst cave), the Kutuk-Sumgan tract (a speleological museum-laboratory with disappearing rivers), and the Bear Glade. In Kutuk tract there is a route for speleologists, including more than 30 karst caves, tunnel, bridge, sinkholes, wells, springs. Travelers who find themselves in “Bashkiria” are offered hiking and horseback riding routes of varying levels of difficulty.
