On the Ob River

If even a cursory look map of the area, moving eyes from northwest to southeast, it is easy to see four distinctive landscape zones. First-eastern slopes of the Urals and the Ural Small, independent array of stretch in the upper reaches of the river Voikar. The second - a hilly plain between the Ob and the Urals, intumescent suddenly in front of the Ob high (above 300 m) mountains, the so-called Mukhina Urals. Third - Ob. Its tributaries, abundant in early summer and then dry, low purple willow-covered islands and hills, covered with cedar - pugory. Fourth - the right bank of the Ob River, a marshy plain, with narrow strips of taiga along the rivers. It is difficult to foresee a trip on any of these areas will be most interesting, but looking at a dense network of rivers, covering any of them, we can say with confidence: hike (when it comes to summer) should be water or, if you pass through the Urals, the combined . It is also easy to establish that started anywhere Shuryshkarsky area route has to be associated with one of the main tributaries of the Ob River. Headwaters of two of them, and Syni Voikar, closely agree with each other, so there may be circular routes to portage from one basin to another. Winter hiking, not counting the complex passes through the Urals, and naturally fit into the curves of the main water arteries - on their shores are towns, rivers are the winter road. Thus, Ob Synya, Kunovat and Voikar - these are the backbone, to which must be tied all the routes. On they should tell us more.