Aleksandrovskaya Sopka is located in the Chelyabinsk region, near the town of Zlatoust. This mountain draws the attention of a treeless peak. It is perfectly visible from the highway Chelyabinsk-Orenburg. Is it worth it to turn to meet Alexander hill close? This topic will be the subject of our article. And while only say that the path to the mountain is easy, climbing is easy, and the views from the top spectacular. Ahead you will find a lot of impressions.
Aleksandrovskaya Sopka is one of the peaks of the Ural mountains and far from the most high. Belongs to the hill ridge of Ural-Tau. The height of the mountain is 843 meters above sea level. The hill is composed of quartzite. Almost to the top stretches of dark coniferous forest. Quite often he interrupted stone placers – the screes. The summit is a rocky crest. On the ridge of Ural-Tau, including at the Alexander hill, the border between Europe and Asia. However, a memorable granite sign of this is not at the top, and at the train station Urzhumka. But this is the explanation. The monument was set in the distant 1892, and to deliver granite to the summit was then quite difficult. But the sign was made from drawings N. Garin-Mikhailovsky, the famous Russian writer, who was then working in the Urals as an engineer.
On the old maps the mountain is called as well as the whole range – Ural-Tau. Where did the name "Alexander hill"? It all started with the fact that in 1837 the then ruling Russian Empire Nikolay Pavlovich sent his son, the Grand Duke Tsarevich Alexander, familiar with the country which he was destined to rule. The young man was then about twenty, and he was not averse to travel. The vastness of Russia he traveled not alone but with a whole escort of nobles. Was with him and his mentor Vasily Zhukovsky, and the two companions as children Alexander Adlerberg and his namesake, Patkul. Climbing the mountain of Ural-Tau was not planned. But visiting Chrysostom (then not yet a town, and the factory), the crown Prince, the future Emperor Alexander II, desired to rise to the top. After leaving the carriage, he with his companions went on horseback. Down the road mentor other burdened years, the members of the escort exhorted the Prince to turn back. But three young Alexander rushed to the top. They won her ninth of June. Then the mountain came to be called the Alexander hill. Especially since the crown Prince was pleased with his own hand to write on the top of the label.
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At various times this mountain was admiring (although from afar) Alexander I (1825) and Nicholas II (1904). These monarchs did not dare to climb to the top. But it was visited by the English geologist sir Roderick Murchison. He made the ascent four years later after the crown Prince Alexander. In his memoirs, he calls the mountain of Ural-Tau. But the British artist Thomas Atkinson, who arrived in this region in 1847, already refers to her Alexander-sopka. The artist mistakenly believed that Alexander hill was named in honor of the Russian Emperor, who ruled from 1801 in 1825. At the beginning of the twentieth century on the top visited Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky and Veniamin Leontievich Metenkov, famous photographers who have made a few colorful images.
In 1909, the hillside crowned the most powerful in that time the radio station. Aleksandrovskaya Sopka, however, surrounded by other peaks, so the radio signals have passed bad. And the construction of the station in mountainous terrain, insisted the inhabitants of the Chrysostom. They feared that because of the radio they will have no rain. The construction of the station resulted in fabulous sums of money, and the result is zero. Now the structure remained only fragments of the Foundation. After the revolutionary events of 1917 the sculptor Stepan Erzya decided to carve on top of the Alexander hill giant bust of Lenin. But for some reasons this plan remained unrealized.
Photos of the mountains look very impressive. Scatterings of stones, coniferous forest, pure spring at the foot – all this makes a trip to the Alexander hill into a memorable event. And add to that the fabulous views to the eyes of a tourist from the top. At a glance, see the towns Miass and Zlatoust. Towering next to the other not less picturesque mountains, including Taganay. The facts that on top visited the future Emperor Alexander II and that it passes through the boundary between Europe and Asia, also makes the hill a popular tourist attraction. Climbing the mountain is included in the route of the day in the Urals. Due to its ease way can overcome even a child. So how do you find the mountain Aleksandrovskaya Sopka?
This natural landmark is located eight kilometers East of the city of Zlatoust. If you go by car, the hill of the wonderful sight from the road. You need to move on the road Zlatoust-Miass. To the foot of the mountains, there are comfortableentrances. If you choose public transport, it is better to use the train. Out of her need at the station Urzhumka. By the way, close to the railway track stands a monument "the Border". From Urumqi to the foot of the mountain only three miles. To this train station can be reached by bus from Chrysostom. Travelers say that the mountain trails are easily marked. The tours cover several attractions: Aleksandrovskaya Sopka, Chrysostom, with its monuments, the island of Faith with megaliths on the Turgoyak lake near Miass, the national Park "Taganay".
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