Tashtagol
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Tashtagol (Russian: Таштаг'ол, tush-tuh-GOHL) is a city in Kemerovo Oblast, the biggest city in Gornaya Shoriya, a taiga region at the foot of Altai Mountains.Understand
Tashtagol is a monocity that stands for one industry being the main taxpayer and jobs source. This industry is iron-mining.
Get in
Tashtagol is the terminus of the Western-Siberian Railway. Getting here is possible by train from Kemerovo or elektrichka from Novokuznetsk.
The city is connected with the neighboring Altai Republic by road which goes to Gorno-Altaysk.
The city is connected with the neighboring Altai Republic by road which goes to Gorno-Altaysk.
See
- Museum of Ethnography and Nature of Gornaya Shoriya. Address: 4, '8 Marta' st.
Do
- Mountain ski base 'Boulanger', 4km west from the city center. Length 1100m, level 296m. A hotel.