Юрты
The place
Юрты ("Yurts") in Lipetsk Oblast, Yeletsk/Zadonsk area (left bank of the Don, central Russia), at 133 m elevation, forest-steppe. Continuous central Russia cluster (batches 260-343). Themed tourist yurt camp, nomadic style (Юрты = "yurts", rural tourism boom from 2015, Russian-Orthodox trend of return to Eurasian roots), area of Chernozem (Russian black earth, the most fertile soil in the world, 65,000 km² of cereal farming) and Galichya Gora Nature Reserve (Russia's smallest NP, 231 ha, 1925, forest-steppe relic, plant endemism, 40 boreal-Alpine species surviving from the glaciations), heritage of the Eastern Slavs (Grand Duchy of Moscow 16th c., serfdom 1649 Moscow Cathedral codification, emancipation 1861 Alexander II).
The setting
Lipetsk Yeletsk/Zadonsk left bank Don central Russia 133 m forest-steppe, continuous cluster batches 260-343, yurts rural tourism boom from 2015 Russian-Orthodox Eurasian return, Chernozem black earth world's most fertile 65,000 km² cereal farming, Galichya Gora NP 231 ha 1925 Russia's smallest relic 40 boreal-Alpine species glaciations, Grand Duchy of Moscow 16th c. serfdom 1649 emancipation 1861 Alexander II.
