Toratau. Bashkortostan

Toratau is a sacred mountain of the Jurmans. The land around Tratau, together with the Tugar-Salgan lake, was banned and was the site for the rituals. According to legend, in one of Tratau caves, the beautiful Diafet was imprisoned by her cruel father Khan, for wanting to flee with a Russian warrior. The entrance to the cave was guarded by a huge snake.
In Stalin's times at the foot of Tratau was one of the zones of the Gulag. The walls of the barracks were preserved.
The mountain of Tratau is a place for visiting paragliders.
2008-selected in the short list of the project "Seven Wonders of Russia" (as Shihany)
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