Chuya Highway

The Chuya highway (Chuisky tract) is a part of the federal highway P-256, starting from the Biysk to the border with Mongolia. This road connects Siberia with Mongolia and China. The road rebuilds the northern route of the Great Silk Road, which is thousand years old.
According to the National Geographic rating, Chuysky tract is included in the TOP-5 of the most beautiful roads in the world.
The main number of tourists traveling in the Altai mountains use the Chuya highway.
The highway goes through ridges and mountain passes. It's very picturesque because of amazing nature views along, moreover there some especially significant and beautiful places on its sides. 14 most interesting and visited of them:
- Chuya highway museum (354th km of the P-256 highway)
- Manzherok ski resort (469th km of the P-256 highway)
- Seminsky mountain pass (583rd km of the P-256 highway)
- Chike-Taman Pass (667th km of the P-256 highway)
- Ilgumen rapid (678th km of the P-256 highway)
- Panorama of the Katun river valley (687th km of the P-256 highway)
- Chuya and Katun confluence (712nd km of the P-256 highway)
- Kalbak-Tash (723rd km of the P-256 highway)
- Chuya olennyy stone (728th km of the P-256 highway)
- The Old Chuysky trakt (744th km of the P-256 highway)
- Shirlak waterfall (759th km of the P-256 highway)
- Geyser lake (796th km of the P-256 highway)
- Kurai Steppe (824th km of the P-256 highway)
- Kyzyl Chin (864th km of the P-256 highway)