Attractions in the hometown of Sterlitamak

Sterlitamak is one of the most beautiful cities in the Republic of Bashkortostan. From the west, Sterlitamak is surrounded by the East European Plain. On the other hand, the city is surrounded by the extraordinary beauty of the Urals. The republic has the famous mountains of Kushtau, Yuraktau, Toratau and mountains that are no longer - Shakhtau. Some of them are located near the city. In ancient times, the waters of the ocean were splashing here. It is easy to find fossilized corals here.
The name of the city comes from two words: Sterla - the river in which the city is located, and “tamak”, which in Bashkir means “throat” or “mouth”.

SHAKHTAU IS A SHIHAN THAT IS NOT THERE

In addition to the mountains in Sterlitamak there are many places of interest that have a very interesting history.
For example: Koreological Museum. Earlier served as a branch of the Siberian Commercial Bank. This is the oldest city institution.

The first exhibits of the museum were archaeological finds discovered in the vicinity of the city by Petrograd professor Alexei Petrovich Smirnov. Today in the historical department you can see: more than 200 items of the 9th-century Levashovsky burial ground, a collection of edged weapons of the early Iron Age, a numismatic collection

Kirov Park. It was opened on the site of an Orthodox church destroyed in the 30s of the last century.
A monument to the victims of the Chernobyl disaster is erected in this park.

Bakery Zhilkin. This is the very first bakery, built in 1909 by the merchant Zhilkin at his own expense

Museum of stone.
Here you can see
the tooth of a mammoth

The museum presents:
all types of limestones (and there are 35) that make up Mount Shakhtau;
associated minerals: rhodochrosite, celestine, native sulfur, barite;
minerals of the copper group: azurite, malachite, cuprite, chalcosine;
petrified trees with preserved annual rings
The Shakhtau Quarry is called the “Gateway of Time”.