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EN Kalmansky District
The villages of Kalmansky District form a zone of early Russian settlement in the Upper Ob region, where the forest-steppe landscapes of the Ob Plateau meet the massif of the Barnaul ribbon pine forest. Settlements founded in the 18th century by the first migrants, fugitive streltsy, and Old Believers stand alongside archaeological monuments of federal significance, including burial grounds of the Seima-Turbino type (Kalistratikha, Ust-Aleyka). In the Soviet period, the territory became a testing ground for agricultural and technical experiments: from the establishment of seed-production state farms and the basing of military aviation to the birth here of the chief designer of the T-90 tank. Today, the district's cultural code is embodied in active Orthodox parishes, school museums documenting the everyday life of the Siberian village, and festivals of rural culture where authentic crafts and traditions of communal mutual aid are recreated.
Troitsky District
The villages of Troitsky District occupy the landscapes of the Biysk-Chumysh Upland and the Bolshaya Rechka river basin, where ancient Bronze Age sites on Lake Utkul intersect with traces of industrial development and the repressive machinery of the 20th century. The territory of logging hubs and tie plants (Borovlyanka, Zavodskoye, Kulichye) became a place of forced labor for the repressed and a refuge for children evacuated from besieged Leningrad. The district's economic foundation was historically shaped around timber industry enterprises and poultry farms, whose workers were honored with the title of Hero of Socialist Labor. The district's true value today is revealed through working mechanisms of ethnographic preservation: the activity of folk ensembles ("Bolsherechye"), clay toy workshops, and the veneration of sacred natural sites such as the holy St. Nicholas spring and the "God's Lake" archaeological complex of Utkul.
Slavgorod Municipal District
The villages of Slavgorod Municipal District form a distinctive cultural and landscape massif of the Kulunda Plain, where steppe expanses adjoin a system of mineralized lakes, including Lake Bolshoye Yarovoye and Lake Burlinskoye. The history of these settlements is determined by the large-scale resettlement movement of the early 20th century, the Stolypin agrarian reforms, and the expansion of the railway network, which brought together on this territory settlers from the central governorates, Ukraine, and the Volga Germans. The district's economic foundation historically rests on two directions: the industrial extraction of table salt, initiated on Burlinskoye Lake as early as 1768, and intensive grain farming. Today, the tangible and intangible heritage of the territory is reproduced through the activities of folk ensembles preserving distinctive calendar and wedding rites, the architecture of active Orthodox parishes, and memorial objects recording local historical events — from the Chernodol uprising of 1918 to the working days of the salt miners.
Tselinny District
The villages of Tselinny District form a stable agrarian-cultural massif of the Biysk-Chumysh Upland, where the landscape of the Chumysh and Marushka river valleys historically determined the logic of settlement. The territory consolidates two structural historical layers: the yam post stations and Old Believer farmsteads of the 18th century (Yaminskoye, Shalap, Sukhaya Chemrovka) and the large-scale infrastructural transformation of the 1950s–1960s associated with the Virgin Lands campaign. The district's tangible heritage is recorded in distinctive natural and economic dominants: from the "Yelanda Stones" and "Green Ring" geological monuments to industrial plantations of sea buckthorn and flax. The intangible tradition here is reproduced through concrete mechanisms of identity preservation: the revived religious processions in Sverchkovo, the "Golden Berry" sea buckthorn festival in Voyevodskoye, the "Myasnoy Zames" gastronomic festival in Druzhba, and the "Jam Session" rock festival in the district center — forming a model of a rural community that integrates historical memory with modern forms of cultural self-organization.
German National District
The villages of the German National District form a distinctive ethnocultural enclave in the landscape of the Kulunda Steppe, created during the resettlement campaigns of 1906–1911 on the basis of Mennonite and Lutheran communities from southern Russia and the Volga region. The tangible heritage of the territory is structured around forms of farming and construction adapted to steppe conditions: traditional homesteads combining residential and utility spaces under one roof, decorative embroidered sayings ("Sprüche"), and a network of specialized museums (in Galbshtadt, Grishkovka, Kamyshi) documenting the everyday life of Russian Germans. The intangible culture is reproduced through institutionalized mechanisms: the preservation of elements of bilingualism, language teaching, and the regular holding of ethnographic festivals (Sommerfest, Erntedankfest, Weihnachtsmarkt) and culinary marathons. A special layer of historical memory is recorded in the memorials to the victims of political repression and the Labor Army (Galbshtadt, Grishkovka, Kamyshi), creating a model of a territory where the cultural codes of early 20th-century colonists are integrated into the modern sociocultural landscape of Altai Krai.
Kosh-Agach Aimak
The villages of the Chuya Steppe are the largest settlements of the republic's highest and driest district, the center of Kazakh culture in Altai.
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Maima Aimak
The villages of the Katun valley in the immediate vicinity of Gorno-Altaysk — the suburban belt of the republic's capital with a long history of settlement.
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Ongudai Aimak
The villages of the steppe intermontane basins of central Altai — a land of pastoral traditions and ancient kurgan burial grounds.
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Turochak Aimak
The taiga northeast of the republic: the villages of the Lebed valley and the southern shore of Lake Teletskoye.
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Ulagan Aimak
The villages of the Ulagan Plateau — a land of high-mountain lakes, the Katu-Yaryk pass, and the headwaters of the Chulyshman.
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Ust-Kan Aimak
The steppe west of the republic: villages in the valley of the Kan River, at the border of the historical lands of Altai and the Kazakh steppes.
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Ust-Koksa Aimak
The villages of southwestern Altai at the foot of the Katun Ridge — a land at the headwaters of the Katun, on the paths to Belukha.
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Chemal Aimak
The villages in the middle reaches of the Katun — the historical breadbasket of the republic and its oldest center of attraction for travelers.
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Choya Aimak
The villages of the northern foothills — the first land of the republic on the way along the Chuya Highway from the side of Altai Krai.
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Shebalino Aimak
The villages of the foothill valleys in the republic's northwest — a land of old-timer settlements between the Kama and Sema rivers.
