Mongolian President Khurelsukh Ukhnaa (left) shakes hands with Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala during a state visit to Czechia, Mar. 11, 2025. Credit: Office of the President of Mongolia This year ...

If approved by Moscow, “The route will connect the Kazakh cities of Ust-Kamenogorsk and Ridder, as well as the Russian locality of Tuekta in the Altai Republic, leading to the Mongolian border ...

Credit: Sue Fleckney / CC BY-SA 2.0 The Pazyryk people, nomadic tribes who lived between the sixth and third centuries BCE, once roamed the Altai Mountains, a region now shared by Russia, Kazakhstan ...

ULAANBAATAR – Historically, the Great Gobi Strictly Protected Area, located in the Gobi-Altai province ... wild Bactrian camels, Mongolian wild ass, Przewalski’s horse, black-tailed gazelle, argali, ...

In the Altai foothills, this safeguarded area, called Burgasny Khundii (Willow Valley), is known for its large ibex population. Last fall, Mongolian herder Bazar Losol led our small group of ...

Last fall, photographer Pat Kane spent a month living with nomadic herders on the vast, barren steppe in western Mongolia ... travelled on horseback into the Altai mountains, which he found ...

Although hunting marmots is illegal in Mongolia, many Mongolians regard the rodent as a delicacy and ignore the law. The National Centre for Zoonotic Diseases has indicated that 17 out of Mongolia ...

Furnished with patterned Mongolian chests and tables, Mandala Altai had beds piled with luxury linens. Each ger is centered around a woodburning stove; in the early mornings an attendant would ...