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Sights of the Altai krai

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Sights of the Altai krai

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The Memorial Museum of Mikhail
Kalashnikov
The Memorial Museum of
Mikhail Kalashnikov in the
village of Kurya in the
Kuryinsky district of the Altai
Territory opened in
2013.Despite the great
popularity of the AK-47,
Kalashnikov strongly
emphasized that his
weapons should be used
only for the defense of the
country.

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Altai state memorial museum of G.S.
Titov
On the night of
August 6-7, 1961,
Herman Titov
made the first
space flight,
lasting 1 day and 1
hour, circling the
Earth 17 times

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Teletskoye Lake
A lake in the north-east
of the Altai Mountains.
It is included in the
UNESCO World Cultural
and Natural Heritage
List as part of the
complex object
"Golden Mountains of
Altai".

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Denisova Cave
Denisova Cave was
discovered in 1926 by
the artist Nicholas
Roerich. The beginning
of archaeological
excavations was laid in
1977, and 5 years later
the USSR Academy of
Sciences took up the
research. The age of the
most ancient finds is 48
thousand years. Today,
the remains of the
disappeared subspecies
of man — Denisovan —
are kept in the museums
of Biysk and Novosibirsk,
and the cave is a tourist
attraction.
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