Kalmanka

Kalmanka lies in the upper Ob country south of Barnaul, amid the rivers and fields of the northern Altai foothills. The village traces its history to the eighteenth century; by the end of that century it had 192 male inhabitants recorded. The Bolshaya and Malaya Kalmanka are among the streams crossing the district, whose waters belong to the wider Ob basin. Russian settlers made their homes in this country as farming expanded across the southern Siberian plain.