Webcam Biisk. Biysk Lyceum Hockey Field (Altai Territory)
The history of Biysk, the second most important city of Altai Krai, begins with a miniature Bikatunsky fortress, built in 1709 at the command of Peter the Great. A very small fortress was destined to make a very significant contribution to the accession to the empire of a mountainous country, inhabited by belligerent subjects of the Dzungarian Khan. Just a year after the foundation of the mini-citadel, the highlanders burned it to the ground. However, soon the fortress was rebuilt again, already on the site of the current polis. Later Biysk was even a county center, officially becoming a city in 1782.
In the middle of the XIX century, when the borders of the empire moved far to the South, the stockaded town, built on the banks of the willful Biya, was abolished because it was not needed. At the same time, the polis continued to develop, gradually becoming an important commercial and industrial cluster of regional importance.
In the last third of the last century, when interest in domestic tourism increased significantly, Biysk got a new status. Today the city is considered a symbolic gateway to the legendary lands of amazing, fantastically beautiful, unique Altai Mountains - a real Mecca for tens of thousands of travelers and vacationers from different parts of the country.
