Ust'-Kalmanka

Ust-Kalmanka stands where the small Kalmanka River joins the Charysh, south of Barnaul in the Altai foothills. Russian settlers founded the village in 1732, naming it for the mouth of the Kalmanka. Its early inhabitants included religious dissenters and exiles. The Charysh valley and nearby farmland gave the settlement a place in the agricultural country north of the Altai mountains.