With every new day I got more and more captivated by the beauty of South Ural. To be honest I've never thought of Ural as of something beautiful. To me it was an industrial mountain region I'd never really wanted to visit (at least, not as much as Altai or Sayan mountains).
But now everything has changed. This year I've been here three times (winter, spring and autumn) and now I really don't want to leave. Luckily, I don't have to. At least, not for another week.
@overalvandaan I'm not quite sure about these exact trees, but I know that during USSR times there were mass production cuttings here, in South Ural. Now there are probably less of them, but it's definitely not over. Just today we saw three trucks filled with freshly-felled birches.
