The main Ural Range - and this is the official geographical name mountain range stretching from north to south for 52 kilometers. The Main Ural Ridge is a kind of stone belt, a natural border between the Perm and Sverdlovsk regions, between Europe and Asia.
Taiga fir-spruce and cedar forests reach up to 800-900 meters up the ridge, then there are birch crooked forests and alpine meadows, and the tops of the ridge are kurumniks. In the northern part of the ridge there are steeper slopes with a slope of up to 45 degrees. The western slope of the ridge is gentler, and even in winter you do not need special equipment. But in snowy winters, the snow is deep here.
At the foot of the eastern slope is the border of the Denezhkin Kamen reserve, one of the few places where virgin flora and fauna have been preserved, which is a generally recognized reference site for the northern taiga. The highest point of the ridge (1410 meters) is named after the outstanding German naturalist A. Humboldt, who traveled around Russia and, in particular, studied the Ural region in 1829 at the personal invitation of the Russian emperor. As a result of the trip, this scientist wrote a major work, in which one of the chapters was called "The system of the mountains of the Urals."
If you look north from the top of Humboldt, you can see two more peaks - Mount Pallas, named after another Russian-German naturalist who visited here in 1770, and Mount Lepekhin, which bears the name of an academician-systematist of wildlife, the first Russian researcher of medicinal plants Ivan Ivanovich Lepekhin.
Other significant peaks: Bolshaya Khodovskaya Sopka (1338.8 m), Sosvinsky Kamen (954 m) and Kazansky Kamen (1035 m).
The entire chain of the Ural Mountains stretches as a continuous upland almost from the Arctic Ocean to the very Caspian steppes. But why is such a truly great phenomenon of the lithosphere called so unpoetically? In fact, the rock massif is so significant in height and length that no one dares to call it otherwise than the Ural Range or simply the Main.
In ancient times, these mountains were called Riphean. The Mansi people call it Ner - “stone”, “stone wall”. At all times, it serves as a natural barrier for the locals to the prevailing western transfer of air currents. These winds carry the main mass of precipitation, significant cloudiness, and form the temperature regime. The cold breath of the Arctic also has an effect. Winter here lasts 5-6 months, snow cover lies on average 164 days a year.
The main Ural Range is beautiful all year round, but it is worth considering that in winter on the Kvarkush plateau, Zhigalan waterfalls - from October to the end of May, can only be reached by snowmobile.
How to get there
First you need to get to Severouralsk by car, this is the most convenient option, by bus (buses run from Yekaterinburg several times a day, the cost is about 1000 rubles, from Perm there is a direct flight without a transfer once a day, leaves in the morning, the cost is 1300 rubles. ) or by train to Serov or Ivdel, the distance from them to Severouralsk is 80-90 km. If your car is not off-road, then you will have to hire a car, and in advance.
For autotourists, you can spend at least two days (1 night) on the route, but this is on the longest summer days, in which case you will have time to see the GUKH in the southern part and the Zhigalansky waterfalls at dawn. There will be no time left for Kvarkush. Therefore, without taking into account the road, plan two overnight stays.
You can climb northern part ridge, but this is still a route for real tourists, because you have to wade across the rivers, spend the night in a tent. You need to get along the Krivinskaya road to the Kriv base (60 km, 4 hours) or to the clearings, and then find a path to the Sosva River, which you can wade, and then again look for a path through the swamp. To the foot of the Gukha - about 6-7 km. To camp for the night, it is better to find a hut on the left bank of the Khodovaya River. And from here you can make radial exits to the North or southern part ridge. In summer the road is very bad. Peaks that are convenient for visiting from the Kriv base: Mount Humboldt, Athletes-Skiers, Mount Pallas, Mount Lepekhina.
You can get to the southern part of the ridge along the gravel road to the Zhigalansky waterfalls. We leave Severouralsk, pass Pokrov-Uralsky and continue in a straight line (60 km, 4 hours). the way locals they pass even on ordinary Zhiguli, but it’s better not to risk it.
If you go along the ridge from south to north (40 km), of course, this is a route for professional tourists, then it will take from 4 to 14 days, with overnight stays in tents on the ridge.
Good time everyone!
I am starting a series of posts about a trip to the Ural Mountains in 2012.
I'll start from the end
Today I will tell you in a nutshell about the wonderful place of the Zvezda recreation center, which is located at the foot of the Gukha.
From the city of Severouralsk, which is located in the Sverdlovsk region, there is a road through the villages of Bayanovka and Pokrovsk-Uralsky.
This road crosses Ural mountains and taiga and rests against the Kvarkush ridge.
Finding the base is easy when you drive along this taiga gravel road, on the right there will be a lapel on which an iron star stands, such a small hello from the USSR.
Going down to the base, you will see cozy houses located on a small clearing, with a stunning view of the Main Ural Range.
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It seems that the mountains are small and not high here, but you need to remember that the base itself is located at an altitude of almost 700 meters above sea level.
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Prices at the base are very cheap, a day costs 500 rubles per person, which includes living space with a bed, use of a kitchen,
where there is gas and a Russian stove, a bathhouse, and if you want barbecue in the evening, then everything will be prepared for you for this.
You can play billiards, sit by the fireplace, watch TV with your favorite movies.
Here and there there are benches and gazebos, barbecues, where you can sit romantically with a friend, chat with friends,
or just sit silently and enjoy the surrounding wildlife.
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Very kind and friendly guys work at the base itself. The director is also a very interesting person, a real Russian man, like the base workers (but that's not for today).
The uniqueness of the base lies in the fact that you can come up with a lot of entertainment for yourself ...
Lots of...
I will give a few examples:
You can stupidly come to the base, sit on its territory, drink beer, eat barbecue, go to the bathhouse ...
But it's not about us, and it's sad that many people come there for this ...
and what's the point, if the most ancient mountains on the planet are under our noses, and we didn't go to sit still...
From the base itself, a path was laid to Guh itself, where a place for bonfires, gatherings, etc. was equipped. literally 15 minutes from the base.
But we are not so lazy and want to go further...
The workers of the base have laid a trail with marks up on the plateau, + the tourists have trampled ...
unhurried walk, 30-40 minutes and we are at the top, from where a wonderful view of the surrounding mountains opens, and in particular Mount Denezhkin Kamen and its reserve.
You can buy a permit in advance to go to the reserve and make a sortie before it, passing along the ridge or along it to the north. Excellent route, three days at the base,
then you pack up and go with ryuks to the reserve, then back to the base and relax.
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You can not go to such a distance, for the lazy)).
We go further, when we have reached the top according to the marks, we rise to a plateau that takes us to another planet...
Here you have lunar landscapes, and Martian landscapes, and whatever you want ....
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The view from the plateau cannot be described in any words, through every meter you can shoot and shoot...
We go along the plateau to the side Perm Territory, the border of our and Sverdlovsk regions runs clearly along the center of the ridge, on one half of the plateau in Sverdlovsk, on the other half in Perm ...
moving to Perm...
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Coming to the opposite edge of the plateau, a view of the valley opens up, and the ridges, mountains, ridges, mountains ... Even the head begins to spin ... from delight and views.
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By the way, in the valley exactly in the middle there is a house where tourists, hunters, fishermen stay...
here's another route for you, live at the base, then go to the house for a few days, live there, live a clean life, cook firewood, pick millions of berries and mushrooms,
walk on the surrounding peaks and admire and admire ....
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You can also leave the base to the north along the stream, reach before the stream becomes the Sosva River and catch fish, grayling, taimen, too.
but we are on the ridge and admiring the views....
If you go down to the house in the valley, you can see the GOH in all its glory....
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and if you get over to the opposite side of the Guhu and the plateau from which we descended, then you can look at everything at once! there you have a Kazan stone from which a wonderful view, and you can climb the "Bowls" or go to a height of 1300.
Here is a panorama from the "bowls"
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Also, from the base you can drive along the road for about 25-35 km, I don’t remember exactly now, and go for a couple of days to the Zhigalan waterfalls, it’s easy to find information about them on the Internet.
This is such a wonderful base, such a Vedic place, such is the Northern Urals.
In the full report, I will tell you how I got there, how I communicated, what I saw there, and, of course, a lot of photos from the ridge and from the surrounding peaks and the house))
By the way, there are not one, but several houses, you can live in each, because each is in a different place, with its own beauty and romance.
By the way, I almost forgot, here you can ski until June 15th.
What the guys from Tchaikovsky did with success, some kind of ski section.
so there is enough entertainment, the main thing is fantasy and a good questioning of the director Vasily.
The base lacks a normal site, where all the surrounding routes and other advantages will be painted, but I think this is all ahead.
The most important thing to remember is that we need to respect the beauty around us, not litter and behave with dignity, like a person!
And finally, I'll show you a few more photos from the trip ...
Ural, such a Ural, mysterious as in fairy tales, and pure as a tear of romance :)
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All the details are in the full report, there is a lot of material to prepare, so everything has its time.
All the best! 
We went to Sosvinsky stone . Sosvinsky stone is a mountain in the Northern Urals (Sverdlovsk region), adjacent to the Main Ural Range. It is called the Sosvinsky stone, because it is located near the source of the Bolshaya Sosva River.
So, we went in the opposite direction, passing again. After a while, a beautiful one opened up to us.
View from the road to the Main Ural Ridge.
Pine tree overlooking the GUKh.
I must say, we had one of the popular routes Northern Urals- "Zhigalansky waterfalls - Sosvinsky stone"
Base "Star" on the Sosvinsky stone.
Finally, we reached the fold, which has a sign welded from metal corners in the shape of a five-pointed star. It remains very close to the tourist base "Star". She works all year round. We arrived there at 5-6 pm. The base turned out to be pretty decent for the taiga wilderness.
Dining room with an attic, on the second floor a guest room with a dozen beds. There is a fireplace in the dining room, even a TV from a satellite dish. Two more houses for tourists; one of the barracks type - for about 10 rooms for two and three people, the other is smaller for 4 rooms, it is called a house with a fireplace. At the time when we were there (2007), another house was being built. Electricity on the base from the generator, turns on in the evening. Heating stove-water. There is a bath. Toilet outside. The cost of living is 500 rubles / day per person (price of 2012), this includes bed linen, a bathhouse, use of the kitchen, bring food with you. There are places for barbecues, places for tents, there is even a small wooden jump for skiers and something like that. football field with gates.
A stream flows between the buildings of the dining room and the bathhouse, which then turns into the Bolshaya Sosva River, which merges with Malaya Sosva to form the Sosva River.
In general, it is quite possible to relax at the Zvezda base, despite the fact that all this is located in the immediate vicinity of the GUKh, because the camp site itself is located at an altitude of almost 700 m.
The dining room of the Zvezda camp site against the backdrop of the mountains.
Off-road equipment at the camp site.
The source of Bolshaya Sosva.
Nature here, beyond words, fascinates. Very beautiful sunsets, the sun sets just behind the mountains.
Sunset over Sosvinsky stone.
And it was also very interesting to watch the clouds, how they caught on the tops of the mountains.
Twilight in the mountains.
Climbing the Sosvinsky stone.
The next day, the long-awaited rise to the GUKh. Our guide was one of the workers of the base. We crossed the stream and went along a path, not even a path, along a clearing in the forest, made by the workers of the base especially for tourists. Around the old trees, covered with moss and lichen, huge fern leaves. You go, as in a fairy tale in a dense forest. After about 15 minutes, rocky slopes of mountains covered with woodlands opened up. Gradually the ascent became steeper, so nature changed, began to look like a mountain tundra with dwarf trees. Huge boulders covered with moss underfoot.
Mountain tundra. Sosvinsky stone.
On one of the glaciers of the Sosvinsky stone.
“Look, what is this? Water drips from the lower edge of the glacier, and over there too, but now a small stream flows along the slope, gradually increasing. Wow, and along the banks of this stream there are whole thickets of grass. So here it is, what kind of river.
It was very close to the top. Five minutes and here she is. Oh, what a beauty, everyone was already breathtaking from the picture that opened their eyes. The top of the Sosvinsky stone is a wide plateau, on which, closer to the eastern side, there is a mountain of stone boulders 3-4 meters high, and the western part of the plateau is covered with vegetation and there is already the Perm Territory. Coming to this side of the plateau, the view of the valley, and the ridges and mountains, and again the mountains and ridges opens up. Even the head begins to spin from overflowing delight. And to the north and south, too, ridges of mountain ranges. This is a whole mountainous country and there is no end to it.
The top of the Sosvinsky stone.
If you look to the east, where we came from, under your feet there is an endless taiga with an island of our camp site.
View from the mountains to the camp site.
Standing there, on top, you feel peace and tranquility, and boundless happiness.
What other routes can be laid from the Zvezda camp site.
The ascent to the Sosvinsky stone itself took about 40-50 minutes for us - a group of people with no experience hiking trips. Well, if you prepare, have appropriate clothes and shoes, you can go from Sosvinsky stone further west through the valley to Kazansky stone. And if you go along the ridge to the north, you can reach the reserve "Denezhkin stone". Or you can go along the source and reach the Bolshaya Sosva River. In general, there would be a fantasy, and any route can be invented.
The best time for tourism in the Northern Urals is the month of July, as it is the warmest, so to speak the Velvet season in these parts. In July, snow can still fall, and in August it is already cold in the mountains, with a piercing icy wind above. Well, for those who are not afraid of either snow or rain, at least all year round come here. Romance. Fortunately, the base, as I said, is open all year round. In winter, skiers come here, you can also come here and surf the snowy expanses. By the way, you can ski here until July. The snow in the mountains does not melt for a long time.
This is such a wonderful place – mountainSosvinsky stone .
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The main Ural is a mountain range on the border of the Sverdlovsk region (Severouralsky GO) and the Perm Territory. Stretched from northeast to southwest in the upper Sosva. It coincides with the main Ural watershed. The length of the ridge reaches 52 km. The height in the northern part is up to 1400 m, in the southern part - up to 1000 m. The highest point is Mount Humboldt (1410.7 m). Other significant peaks: Bolshaya Khodovskaya Sopka (1338.8 m), Mount Pallas (1337.7 m), Mount Lepekhina (1330 m), Trident (1204.5 m), Sosvinsky Stone (954 m) and Kazansky Stone (1035 m ).
The ridge is slightly dissected, the peaks are flat and dome-shaped, the slopes are steep, almost completely covered with fresh collapses of bedrocks (kurumniks) with a dense network of tectonic faults. Up to 800-900 m, the slopes are covered with forest, higher - mountain tundra and meadows, along the peaks - stone placers. @Illustrated encyclopedia of local lore URAL, Kvist Publishing House, 2013
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popular with tourists. First, it is relatively easily accessible. Severouralsk is located 45 km from the southern end of the ridge, and the village of Vsevolodo-Blagodatskoye is 35 km from its northern end. Buses run to Severouralsk from Yekaterinburg (450 km), Vsevolodo-Blagodatskoye, in turn, is connected by bus service to Severouralsk (45 km, buses run 3 times a day).
Prior to the resumption of the Denezhkin Kamen reserve, the routes traditionally coexisted with the Main Ural Range and Mount Denezhkin Kamen. On the one hand, this added complexity to the route, on the other hand, it made it possible to first see the next travel destination from afar, and then see the passed section from the side. Denezhkin Stone is perfectly visible from the GUKh even now, but tourists are not allowed there - it is a protected area.
However, it is still possible and interesting to traverse the Main Ural Range (52 km, difficulty category 1A in summer, 1B in winter). Both options take a long time and are suitable only for well-trained travelers. Moreover, the winter traverse of the GUKh can be a serious test for real professionals: the air temperature here drops to -40 ° C, and the wind knocks you down above the forest line. 
Six peaks of the Main Ural Range exceed 1000 m above sea level. The highest point of the ridge is Mount Humboldt (1410.7 m), on old maps it appears under the name Lyampa Kutimskaya, after the name of the river that originates from the lake on its slope. The peak was renamed in 2001 at the initiative of the Sverdlovsk branch of the Russian Geographical Society in memory of the German traveler and scientist Alexander Humboldt (1769-1859), who left a huge mark on the history of the study of the Urals. 
As a light option, we recommend climbing the southernmost peaks of GUKh - Sosvinsky Kamen (954 m) and Kazansky Kamen (1035 m) mountains. Moreover, several bases appeared near these peaks at once, and you can combine this trip with a trip to the Zhigalan waterfalls and a trip to Kvarush.
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