Altayskoye

Altayskoye lies among the northern foothills of the Altai, where wooded slopes rise above river valleys and meadows. The settlement was founded in 1808 as Verkhne-Kamenskaya, or Upper Kamenka. By the 1830s it had acquired the name Altayskoye. The surrounding country joins the plain at the foot of the mountains with spurs of the Anuy, Cherga and Seminsky ranges, whose streams drain towards the upper Ob basin.

The later city of Gorno-Altaysk lies here.