Altai Republic

Main article: Subjects of the Russian Federation

The Altai Republic is a constituent entity of the Russian Federation, part of the Siberian Federal District, the area is 92.9 thousand km ².

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Federal authorities

Territorial branches of federal authorities:

• Arbitration Court of the Altai Republic
• Prosecutor's Office of the Altai Republic
• Department of the Federal Treasury for the Altai Republic
• Office of the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare in the Altai Republic
• Siberian Department of the Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision
• South Siberian Interregional Department of State Road Supervision
• Territorial Compulsory Health Insurance Fund of the Altai Republic
• PFR branch in the Altai Republic

Government

Main article: Government of the Altai Republic

Settlements

• Administration of the municipality "City of Gorno-Altaysk"
  • MU "Department of Housing, Communal and Road Services of the Gorno-Altaysk City Administration"

• Administration of the municipality "Kosh-Agach district"
  • Department of Education of the Administration of MO "Kosh-Agach District"

• Administration of the municipality "Maiminsky district"
  • Administration of the Ministry of Defense "Maiminsky rural settlement"

• Administration of the municipality "Ongudai district"
• Administration of the municipality "Ulagansky district"
• Administration of the municipality "Ust-Kansky district"
• Administration of the municipality "Ust-Koksinsky district"

Transport

Airports

• Gorno-Altaysk Airport

Digitalization

Ministry of Digital Development of the Altai Republic

Power

"Regional Dispatch Management of the Power Systems of the Novosibirsk Region, Altai Territory and the Altai Republic" (Novosibirsk RDU) - ODU Siberia branch of JSC "SO UES"

Education and Science

Ministry of Education and Science of the Altai Republic

UNIVERSITIES of the Altai Republic

• Gorno-Altai State University

2024: The annual budget for the digitalization of the education of the Altai Republic is disclosed - 135.5 million rubles

In October 2024, the budget for the digitalization of the educational environment of the Altai Republic in 2024 was disclosed - more than 135.5 million rubles. 39 schools were equipped with these funds, of which 6 were complete and 33 were small. This became known at a meeting of the Presidium of the Republican Parliament.

Tourism

2024: Growth of tourist flow by 5% to 2.7 million people

In 2024, the Altai Republic confirmed the status of one of the most popular tourist destinations in Russia. At the end of the year, 2.7 million people visited the region, which is 5% more than in 2023. The trend is expected to continue in 2025, with gains ranging from 5% to 7%. This was announced at the end of January 2025 by the First Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the region Olga Filipenkova.

According to TASS, the regional authorities are actively working to improve the quality of tourist services and create comfortable conditions for vacationers. State support is aimed both at the development of large facilities and at launching new initiatives that will expand the range of available services for travelers. Particular attention is paid to reducing the seasonal dependence of the industry, since most tourists come in the summer. With the commissioning of new facilities, including the all-season resort "Manzherok," the flow of guests in winter increased. Filipenkova noted that the further development of this direction may become an important factor in the growth of the tourist attractiveness of the region.

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Autotourism remains the most common form of travel in the Altai Republic. According to Filipenkova, about 80% of the region's guests come by private or rented transport, which requires modernization and expansion of road infrastructure. In this regard, the authorities are developing a comprehensive navigation system that will allow tourists to quickly receive information about places of accommodation, tourist facilities and roadside service points. Among the priority areas of development is the creation of convenient recreation areas equipped with modern sanitary conditions and the necessary amenities for comfortable stay of car travelers.^[1]

Health care

Ministry of Health of the Altai Republic

• KUZ RA "Medical Information and Analytical Center"

Clinics

• AUZ RA "Republican Dental Polyclinic"
• BUZ RA "Choisky District Hospital"
• BUZ RA "Mayminskaya District Hospital"
• Republican Hospital

Organizations of Gorno-Altaysk

• Organizations in Gorno-Altaysk

History

Main article: History of Russia

Pazyryk culture

315 BC: The top of a staff with the head of a griffin

The wooden head of the staff comes from the mound of the 2nd fourth century BC. e. in Pazyryk, in the Altai mountains of Russia near the borders of Mongolia and Kazakhstan.

Altai animal style. About 315 BC Wood and leather. Height: 35 cm. State Hermitage Museum

Preserved in permafrost conditions, it is carved in the form of a griffin holding the head of a deer in its beak. On either side of its neck are relief carvings of smaller griffins clutching birds. The heads of the griffins are carved in a circle and mounted on a staff using wooden pins. Griffin expresses power and power, and the presence of three of these beings symbolizes the curse of death.

The finely detailed deer head in the main griffin's beak, its horns curling elegantly around both sides of the predator's mouth, is an example - along with two smaller griffins and their prey - of one of the most popular motifs of ancient Altai art - of a two-animal battle.

Mound 2 in Pazyryk was the grave of a man, probably a chief, whose body was covered with tattoos of fantastic animals. The item was found near the head of the sarcophagus in which its owner lay, possibly indicating that it served as part of a headdress that signified the high status of a man. The end of the top of the staff ends with a wooden pin, but how and to what it was attached is unknown.

350 BC: The world's oldest surviving pile carpet

The Pazyryk carpet, dating from the fourth century BC, is the oldest known surviving pile carpet, buried in mound 5 in Pazyryk in the Altai Mountains and preserved thanks to an ice jam that sealed a previously looted grave.

Wool carpet. Altai animal style. 4th century BC 200 x 180 cm. State Hermitage

The once bright red, blue and green paints have now blossomed, but even so, the carpet glows with life. The central field of sockets made of lotus buds, surrounded by five fields depicting

• fantastic griffin eagles;
• fallow deer or elk;
• another type of lotus bud socket;
• riders and their horses alternating between a horse rider and a human figure walking alongside his horse;
• and finally , another griffin eagle motif.

One interpretation of a field with a horse and a rider suggests that it depicts a funeral procession, possibly for a chief buried with this carpet.

The wool carpet contains an average of 225 knots per square inch, for a total of more than 1.25 million knots.

Nomads of high-altitude Altai maintained cultural and trade contacts with Central Asia, China, and the Middle East, and among the imported items found in Pazyryk burials were Chinese mirrors and silks, as well as fabrics and other artifacts from Persia (modern-day Iran).

The archaeologist who excavated the carpet, S.I. Rudenko, saw Achaemenid Persian influence in this work, pointing out the similarity between these horsemen and relief images of horse processions in Persepolis. However, by all accounts, the carpet was probably made in Altai. Although it is the oldest known, its exceptional craftsmanship attests to the fact that by then the methods of carpet weaving were well studied here.

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