Tourism in the Republic of Bashkortostan has very good potential due to its nature, multiethnic culture, and geographical diversity. Bashkortostan covers an area of 142 900 sq km or app 0.8% of the total area of the Russian Federation. It occupies a large part of the Southern Urals, the adjacent Bashkirian part of the Ural foreplains, and the high plain belt of the Bashkirian Transural region. It borders on Perm and Sverdlov regions in the north, the Chelyabinsk Region in the southeast, the Orenburg Region in the south and southwest, the Republic of Tatarstan in the west, and the Udmurt Republic in the northwest.
People of nearly 100 different nationalities live in Bashkortostan, including Bashkirs, Russians, Tatars, Chuvash, Mari, Ukrainians, and Germans. The Bashkirs are the indigenous inhabitants.
What to see or visit when you are in Bashkortostan
Akhunovo Megalithic complex
Askinskaya cave
Aslykul lake
Bashkir Botanical Garden
Bashkir State Philharmonic
Belaya river
Blue lake
Cathedral Church of the Nativity of the Virgin
Gadelsha waterfall
Iremel mount
Kandy-Kul Natural Park
Krasnousolsky Resort
Kuk-Karauk waterfall
Kush-Tau ski complex
Lenin Park
Memorial “Grieving Mother”
Memorial House Museum of S.T. Aksakov
Museum of beekeeping
National Museum of the Republic of Bashkortostan
Nugush water reservoir
Old (Tukayev) Mosque in Ufa
Pavlovsk water reservoir
Red Spring (Красный Ключ) village
Reserve Shulgan Tash
Salavat Yulaev monument
St. Sergius Cathedral
Ufa Botanical Garden
Vatan Ethnic Park
Yumaguzinskoe water reservoir
