Ishkul

Ishkul lies in the lake country of the southern Urals, west of the upper Ural River. Burial mounds near the locality and a stone mound on the hill of Maloye Montayevo bear witness to older communities in this landscape. To the east lies the closed basin of Lake Atavdy. The hills and lakes form a meeting ground between the wooded slopes of the Urals and the open steppe beyond.