Mayma

Mayma lies at the confluence of the Mayma and Katun rivers, at the northern entrance to the Altai Mountains. An Altai camp stood on the Mayma floodplain by the turn of the nineteenth century, and Russian peasants began settling in the area in the early 1800s. The broad valley offered pasture and nearby forests. The Katun flows north from the mountains to join the Biya, forming the great Ob River.