The location of the Kemerovo region is unique: it is situated near the continental center, on a joint of the Western and Eastern Siberia, almost equally spaced from eastern and western frontiers of the country, takes a median place between Moscow and Vladivostok. Here each fan of traveling will find rest to his or her taste.

The area has a second name: because most of its territory is occupied by the Kuznetsk basin with enormous coal reserves, the region is called Kuzbass.

Mountain Shoriya is called the Siberian Switzerland for its natural riches and beauty. It’s covered by a giant amphitheater of mountains: the Kuznetsk Alatau and northeastern Altai.

The Shorians are a small indigenous, ancient Turkic people of Kuzbass, whose homeland is the mountain Shoria. Its population today is not more than 14 000 people. The Shorians are known for its products of iron. Russian explorers called these people "Kuznetsk Tatars". Forging and steelmaking not only gave the names to many towns and cities in the area, such as the first fort "Kuznetsky", built by Russians, and the modern city of Novokuznetsk, but also determined the leading activity in all of the Kuzbass basin - mining industry and metal production.

In Mountain Shoria there is National Park of unique pristine flora and fauna. And there there is the open air ethnographic museum "Tazgol".

There are many health resorts in Kuzbass operated on the basis of mineral sources. Here you can not only have a rest, but also improve your health. Mountain Shoriya is also popular for mountain-skiing, trekking routes, rafting and horse riding. In general this region has all preconditions to become the tourist center of the international level due to the quality of recreational resources in this small territory. Mountain Shoriya surpasses the majority of recreational zones of Russia.

"The Business Card" of Mountain Shoria is alpine skiing tourism. Especially popular is the Green Mount (Mustag) located near the population center Sheregesh. The mountain range is the highest peak of the Shorsky ridge (1570 meters above the sea level), it’s a large granite massif, which stretches from the southwest to the northeast of more than 25 kilometers.

The high level of Green Mount trails is acknowledged by the international Federation of skiing and snowboarding. The recreation area is capable of receiving up to 1 million people a year. There are all necessary conditions for the development of tourism and ski sports: hotels of different levels, trails with a total length of 10 kilometers, cable cars. The angle of slope steepness ranges from 8 to 45 degrees, the snow cover lasts from November to May - all this makes Sheregesh favorable place for alpine skiing, snowboarding and competitions of international level.

Apart from wonderful slopes for skiing another trademark of Mountain Shoria is Yeti, which presumably lives near Azas cave. Local people who have seen it describe Yeti as: “That creature has a massive body, from a distance it looks like a kind of brown bear, it footprints have 5 toes, and its height is approximately 1,5 – 2 meters. It has fur of red-black color all over its body. It also can easily climb a tree”. The image of Yeti became so popular, that in Sheregesh village a monument to it has been established. In Tashtagol it is planned to open a special exhibition in local museum completely devoted to this amazing creature. It is true or not, but mysterious legend about relict humanoid successfully overlaps the tourist context of this amazing region.

Kuzbass in general is really good both for summer and for winter rest: rafting and excellent fishing, caves, helicopter routes, excursions to the chairlift. Here warm summer with big duration of sunshine lasts up to 2118 hours a year. During the winter period there is usually clear, not so frosty weather, the steady and powerful snow cover reaching in mountain valleys the depth of 2 meters.

The favourite route of fans of water travel lies on Kuzbass through the river Tom. It is the main river of the area, it has extent of nearly 300 km.

Now in the country and in the world traveling to small towns becomes popular. For example, Mariinsk town has the status of the historical city. It is interesting with the stone and wooden buildings constructed in style of the Siberian baroque, is delightful woodcarving on the houses, executed by city masters.

In one of the picturesque corners of Kuzbass, at merge of the Tom and Yus Rivers, there is the highest point of Kuzbass - the snow mount Amzas-taskyl (Upper tooth). And near it there is a town of Mezhdurechensk. It is the magnificent mountain-skiing center, 4 springboards are built. That’s why Mezhdurechensk became Mecca for flying skiers. As the covering of springboards with an artificial material allows athletes to train even in summertime.

 The Kemerovo region is rich with monuments of the remote historical past. Archeologists found in the territory of the area around 135 monuments of archeology from a paleolith till the 15 century A.D. These are burial grounds, sites of ancient settlements, rock paintings of neolith and bronze age with images of animals and scenes of hunting of the far ancestors occupying the Kuznetsk’s land. Paleontological discoveries also were made on Kuzbass. So around Shestakovsky bogs an unique place with skeletons of dinosaurs, so-called Cemetery of dinosaurs, was found.

Totally in Kemerovo Region there are about 700 historical monuments. Most known of them are Mariinsk prison (from which no escape was made for all its history), the remains of the Kuznetsk fortress constructed in the town of Novokuznetsk in 1780-1790, etc.

By quantity of museums Kuzbass is included into the first ten regions of Russia. And consequently this is perfect place for fans of cultural tourism.

Come to Kuzbass, to the small country of big miracles! Here each traveler will find something to one’s taste. Make a tour to the world of harmony of nature and human.