Swans of Altai Mountains

We celebrate the beginning of the winter season by arrival of swans to Altai. Several hundred of swans and then over 1,000 waterfowls annually spend winter in non-ice covered lakes in the foothills of Altai. This is the only one such a place in Siberia with wintering swans and that is the reason why natural reserve had been established here.Nobody knows exactly where these beautiful birds ...