Look: Ural! Travel Book

The Ural Mountains, the stone frontier between Europe and Asia, are a natural treasure of Russia. Multifaceted and stretching for thousands of kilometers from south to north, the Ural reveals itself to each person in its own way. Do you want to discover your Ural as well?
Then you need a guide. This exciting book journey will prepare you for meeting the real Ural. You will learn a lot about the history of the mountain range, its natural monuments and protected areas, and get to know the inhabitants of the Ural, local legends, and traditions. You will walk through diverse steppes, broadleaf forests, taiga thickets, and endless tundras, following the trail of an experienced traveler who left clues — routes in the Ural of varying difficulty, rules of conduct in the wild, and recommendations for preparing for your first hike in the mountains.

• The long-awaited continuation of the project by artists Anya and Varya Kendel, who received the National Award in the field of children's and youth literature for the book "Look: Baikal!";
• An exciting journey through the Ural Mountains, from the southern steppes to the Arctic Ocean, following the trail of a real Ural expert, Oleg Chegodaev, who has two trans-Ural expeditions — one on foot and one by water;
• This is not the most complete encyclopedia, but the perfect guide to the Ural — a large and richly illustrated gift book for your first acquaintance with the region. Images and facts in it, like parts of a mosaic, come together to form a complete picture!
• In this unique guide, there are more than 20 diverse routes across five districts of the Ural: walking along the Southern Ural Trail, with a tour of the Old Demidov Factory, by water to the Manpupuner Plateau, on a snowmobile to the foot of Neroyka, climbing Payer, and more;
• "Look: Ural!" is a book for the active reader — discover, travel, respond to new challenges!

"We were born and raised in the Ural in a family of athletes. Since childhood, we have walked a lot in the mountains, on foot and on skis. And we learned to draw at the Chelyabinsk Art School.
The Ural opened up two main pursuits in life for us: drawing and hiking.
We had the idea to make a book about the Ural since the time we worked on the book about Baikal, and we really hope we were able to infuse it with love for our native land."
— Anya and Varya Kendel
"I remember the moment when I decided to dedicate my life to the Ural. Returning from the Polar Ural, I lay on the upper side berth of the platzkart car and thought about how huge and diverse this mountain range is, how many secrets and beauties it holds, and why all this is not united into a single story. The inhabitants of the Polar Ural have a poor idea of the Southern Ural, and the southerners know little about the north of their mountains. And then I thought, isn’t this a worthy and ambitious challenge! To tell about the Ural Mountains as a whole, to walk through them step by step, to show what they are like over more than 2000 kilometers. This is what I have been doing for many years. And this book is yet another piece of the puzzle that forms the goal of my life — to understand the Ural and show it to people in all its diversity and beauty!"
— Oleg Chegodaev