Webcam Biysk. Detsky Mir (Altai region) online
Biysk is a real "gateway to Altai", through which ten times more people pass each year than live in the city. Here you can see rocket launches from "Baikonur", Vasily Shukshin shot the film "Stove-top". And there is also an unusual monument to Lenin here - in a fur hat.
In a place where today is Biysk, about a million years ago was the site of ancient man, and in the III century BC was the Great Silk Road. On February 29, 1708 the Siberian Prikaz (office) of the Kuznetsk fortress received an order to build a military fortification in the southern part of the Kuznetsk county: "On the Biya and Katun rivers in a decent place for the collection of the yasashnoy treasury and the settlement of peasants to build a fortress with any fortresses".
It was executed, and the date of birth of the future city built at the confluence of Biya and Katun was June 18, 1709 (the date of the first list of settlers for the new fortress). It protected the southeastern borders of the Russian state and trade routes to China and Mongolia, and was armed with several cannons. They soon came in handy, and more than once: to repel attacks by the Dzungars, who once even burned the fortress. But then it was rebuilt again, in 1718.
Until 1779 Biyskaya fortress was part of the Tobolsk province. By the decree of Catherine II of May 1, 1779 it became part of Barnaul uyezd. Since 1782 Biysk became a county town.
