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Kuznetsk Alatau
These mountains have smooth outline, rather steep western and gentle eastern slopes. The fir overwhelmingly predominates in the forest belt except for its upper part where, at the tree line (1300-1900 m), the stone pine becomes a dominant.
The highest peak of Kuznetsk Alatau is "Verhny Zub" mountain.
The highlands are occupied mostly by vast large-stoned screes, and also by patches of subalpine meadows and, on some southern mountain massifs, of bushy, lichen and moss tundras. The basin of the Kondoma River in Gornaya Shoriya is remarkable for the lime-tree woods which are thought to be the relics of a pre-Pleistocene nemoral vegetation of Siberia. All over the upland the forest openings are occupied by long forb forest meadows.
Kuznetsk Alatau is popular among hikers and rafters. The regional rafting competition is conducted every spring at Kazyr river.