Expedition "To the Golden Lake" will be held in August in the Altai Reserve
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Expedition "To the Golden Lake" will be held in August in the Altai Reserve

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03-22-2023
 
In August, the student team will go on an expedition to the eastern shore of Lake Teletskoye (Altyn Kel - Golden Lake), where one of the largest nature reserves in Russia - Altai - is located.

This was reported on its website by the Association of Reserves and National Parks of the Altai-Sayan Ecoregion.

“For the Republic of Altai, Lake Teletskoye is a pride and an object of worship. For local residents, the lake is not only a sacred object, but also an object where they develop ecological tourism,” said the project mentor, head of the Youth Club of the Altai Republican Branch of the Russian Geographical Society, Valentina Sitnikova, whose words are quoted by the association.

A team of students will have to explore a hard-to-reach territory where only visual methods can be used to study the flora, flora, and historical and cultural heritage.

The expedition members will comprehensively study the area in order to organize a tour of one of the cordons in the future, as well as collect materials for creating an eco-trail on the territory of the Altai Reserve.

“The student expedition, which will consist of young people with different knowledge and skills, will help to explore the territory and create a point of attraction and attraction at one of the cordons of the Altai Biosphere Reserve,” Sitnikova said.

The project will be supported by the Altai Biosphere Reserve and Gorno-Altai State University.

15 students of Russian universities (from 18 years old) studying in such areas as tourism, management, biology (botany), geography, geomorphology, history, archeology, as well as journalists, designers, photographers and videographers will be invited to participate in the expedition.

The project "To the Golden Lake" was included in the list of the winning expeditions in 2023, published by the expert council of the "Rediscovering Russia" competition.

The organizer of the competition is the National Research University Higher School of Economics. More than 1200 projects took part in the selection, 47 of them became winners.
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