The holiday "Altai wintering" opens the winter tourist season in the Altai Territory. Within its framework, over 70 vibrant sports, cultural and business events take place. Spectacular competitions in winter sports. Festival of northern sled dogs. Racing and photo shoot with Huskies. Contests, promotions, master classes, folk festivals, fireworks. Excursions to the wintering place of swans, to the non-freezing lake - all this and much more in the program of the “Altai wintering”.

The main venue of the holiday has its own website, Altaiskazyazimovka.rf. Areas of the Altai Territory at the Altai Wintering celebration. The wide geography of the Altai Wintering allows each resident of the region to join this main winter event of the region. The organizers of the holiday projects are municipalities, district activists, public organizations and entrepreneurs.

And, of course, the “heart” of the holiday “Altai wintering” is Sovetsky district. Here, on the territory of the Lebediniy reserve, there are non-freezing lakes - wintering grounds for more than 700 whooper swans.

Swan Lake Thousands of excursionists will visit the non-freezing lake of the Sovetsky District, where the whooper swans come to winter every year. Among snow drifts and snow-covered swans moving gracefully against the background of trees covered with hoarfrost. On frosty sunny days, in the haze of floating water, they look like a magical mirage. Anyone who has ever seen such a sight will keep it in his heart for a long time. It was the inhabitants of the unique swan lake of the Sovetsky district that inspired the inhabitants of the region to create the Altai wintering holiday.

Sports program of the holiday In different cities and districts of the region - on dogs, skis, skates, paragliders, in water, on a ski run, on mountain slopes the participants of the holiday “Altai wintering” will compete in strength, speed, dexterity and show the high skill level of Altai athletes to the audience.

One of the objectives of the holiday - the development of year-round tourism. This is a great opportunity to extend the season, to be active all year round. A variety and a large number of sports - evidence of numerous opportunities for winter recreation in the Altai Territory.

The venue is Altai Territory, Barnaul, Belokurikha, Sovetsky (Light Lake), Zmeinogorsky, Zarinsky, Altai districts.

Dates - November 30 - December 1, 2019.

Sightseeing: Barnaul: State Museum of the History of Literature, Art and Culture of Altai, the Museum of Pharmacy “Mountain Pharmacy”, Pokrovsky Cathedral, Demidov Square; Biysk: a museum of history of the Altai spiritual mission, the Assumption Cathedral, the Biysky museum of local lore named after Vitaly Bianki, the museum of the Chuisky tract, the birthplace of the Ob river; Belokurikha: Tserkovka mountain, historical and architectural complex "Living Water"; Zmeinogorsk and Zmeinogorsky District: Museum of the History of the Development of Mining Production named after Akinfiy Demidov, Snake Mountain, Kunshstat of the Ekaterininsky Mine; Altai region of the SEZ TRT "Turquoise Katun": Big Tavdinskaya cave, archaeological park "Crossroads of Worlds", apiary "Glory Medovukhi", art gallery "Prostor"; Zarinsky district: the spring “Svyaty Klyuch”, Alexandro - Nevsky monastic skete, Danilovsky cave church; Smolensk region: tourist and entertainment complex "Siberian Compound", a complex of museums in the village. Novotyryshkin; Sovetsky district: State natural complex reserve of the boundary value "Swan"; Charysh district: Tsarsky kurgan in the valley of the river Szentelek, Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God.

Accommodation facilities: Barnaul: Central Hotel, Siberia Hotel, Barnaul Hotel, Tourist Hotel, Ulitka Hotel; Biysk: the Central Hotel, the Art-Eco-Hotel Altai Hotel, the Belovodye Hotel, the Grace Hotel; Zarinsk: Metallurg Hotel, Severnaya Hotel; Zmeinogorsk: hotel "Alisa", hotel complex "At the outpost", hotel "On Lev Tolstoy"; Altai district of the SEZ TRT "Turquoise Katun": tourist complex "Manor of Sarzhevskikh", hostel "Zarya"; Smolensk region: Altai Green Park Hotel, Zoloto Altaya Hotel Complex, Prostakvashino Ranch.