• Abasin pine forest
• Zaimka of the Lykovs
• Abasin pine forest
• Part of the Khakass national park «Small Abakan»
• The Chalpan Rock
• Chemal hydroelectric power station

Abasin pine forest

Abasin pine forest is a botanical nature sanctuary and represents the cedar and pine massif in a valley of an average watercourse Abakan, near Abaze town. Pine forest lasts along the coast like a tape bordered with a unique rocky complex of Chalpan. This Abasin sight received popularity for uniqueness and picturesqueness of a landscape across all Khakassia and the status of especially protected natural object. 

Zaimka of the Lykovs

Zaimka of the Lykovs – situated in the national park "Khakass" is in the Tashtypsky Area of Khakassia in Abakan River in 250 kilometers from Abazes , on border of Khakassia, the Altai and Tuva republics . It was found in May, 2001 and practically it is not investigated.

A peculiar microclimate of an intermountain valley between two rivers Karatosh and Izerla, a landscape variety, and also not deep snow(20-30 cm) as compared with other territories where the height of snow cover is 1,0-1,5 m and plentiful food supply create conditions for wintering of the wild animals migrating from adjacent territories on a joint of borders of three republics. The fauna of a site is various. Especially high number, in comparison with other areas, the sable, cabarga, bear, squirrel and mink reaches. From rare and the endangered species included in the Red books of Russia and Khakassia, meet a reindeer, the Siberian goat, a mountain ram argali, a snow leopard , an otter, scopa, a golden eagle, a black stork, Altay ular and others.

For many years activity in this territory was limited to trade hunting (mainly production of a sable) and gathering wild growing plants, berries, nuts, medicinal herbs. The name the site received from a family of conservatives of Lykovs, lived eremites in mountains in a deaf Sayansk taiga from 30th years of the XX-th century up to their accidental detection by geologists in 1978 at river inspection Big Abakan. Lykovs were unfamiliar with a modern civilization, and this history had a huge resonance in the Soviet press of those of years. Now in the settlement there lived one 68 year old Agafya Lykova. "Zaimk of Lykovs" site is considered a standard of the wild nature of Western Sayan, important in preservation of biological diversity of administratively separated republics.

Abasin pine forest

Cedar nursery The cedar nursery of Abasin timber enterprise in the foothills of Sayan Mountains is unique on all the country. Its capacity can make to three million saplings of this tree a year. Before the nursery maintained business relations generally only with forestry of the republic and the southern regions of Krasnoyarsk Region. Now the nursery is the supplier of federal level and delivers the saplings to Moscow area, the Urals, the Volga region. Besides the enterprise grows up the unique decorative blue spruces decorating streets of the Siberian cities. 

Part of the Khakass national park «Small Abakan»

A part of the Khakass national park located in the Tashtypsky Area of Khakassia , located in 40 kilometers from the city Abazes . Here you can see three main types of a relief - Alpine high-mountainous, massive and high-mountainous and middle mountain erosive. Here pass courses numerous creeks and the small rivers. The largest river is Small Abakan. In a high-mountainous part numerous small mountain lakes are scattered. Feature of a site is that, it is located on border of three geobotanical districts. In regularities of distribution of a vegetative cover two belts - high-mountainous and mountain and taiga are accurately allocated. The vegetation belongs to wood, meadow and tundra type. Inventory of flora of a site isn't complete, for this reason there is no exact number of growing types of plants. Now about 400 types of the highest vascular plants are noted. From them 9 types are included in the Red book RSFSR (1988).

The fauna of the mountain and taiga territory is various and has well expressed mountain character. In the territory of a site 11 species of fish are noted. The most usual are harius, lenok, taimen. Amphibious are presented by 3 types: Siberian frog, ordinary toad and Siberian angletooth. From reptiles 3 looks are noted: viviparous and nimble lizards, ordinary viper. The world of birds is various - 139 types. From them 18 types are included in the Red book of Russia, and 7 types are globally rare for Europe and Asia. Mammal are of 50 types. There are data on meetings near the southern and eastern frontiers of a red wolf, and to the South - calling of the Siberian goat and the Altay mountain ram-argali. Among valuable hunting-trade types it is necessary to allocate enough usual a sable, the American mink, lynx, a brown bear, badger, roe, maral, elk and cabarga.

The Chalpan Rock

The Chalpan Rock Chalpan's Rock (in a Khakass way - the mountain) is near the Abaze city. Represents the steep stone massif in height of 147 meters reminding animal canine. From top of the rock the panorama of the city, cedar pine forest and the Abakan River  opens indescribable beauty.

 Chemal hydroelectric power station

It is the first hydroelectric power station constructed on Altai in 1935. It was under construction strengths of prisoners of the Siberian management of camps of special function. For those times it was very powerful station, capable to serve the whole area. But energy now developed by it (about 400 kWh) hardly suffices on some houses located nearby, and sanatorium. However it was constructed soundly. And here already throughout 70 with superfluous years works practically without repair. And it in spite of the fact that in 1959 and 1969 to it was necessary to endure strong floodings. The Chemalsky hydroelectric power station is a monument of culture of the Altai Republic.