it occupies the left bank half of the minusinsk basin.the center of the republic abakan by rail is about 4,300 km. travel time. will be three days, the flight by plane will take 4.5 hours. abakan - by modern standards - is a small city with a population of about 200,000 people. it is one of the greenest cities in russia. parks and squares occupy almost a third of its territory. there are several theaters in the city. on the cathedral square there is the most beautiful orthodox church in the city, the transfiguration cathedral. traveling around khakassia allows. full of secrets of the history of the peoples who inhabited these lands. khakass valleys store thousands archaeological sites left by the ancient population of the minusinsk basin. the salpyk steppe lies 60 km northwest of abakan. historians call it the valley of the kings. here in the radius. there are 56 large burial mounds located 5 km away; they were built by the siberian scythian tribes. scientists named this archaeological culture after the site of the first excavations, taga