The group is named after the Altai Mountains, a mountain range in Central Asia.

The Altai Mountains give their name to the proposed language family.

In 2008, archaeologists working at the site of Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of Siberia uncovered a small bone fragment from the fifth finger of a juvenile member of a population now referred to as Denisova hominins, or simply Denisovans.

According to Chinese sources, the meaning of the word Tūjué was " combat helmet " ( 兜鍪 ; Pinyin: dōumóu, Wade-Giles: tou-mou ), reportedly because the shape of the Jinshan ( 金山 jīnshān, Altai Mountains ), where they lived, was similar to a combat helmet-hence they called themselves 突厥 ( Tūjué / T ' u-chüeh ).

Within the heterogeneous Rouran Khaganate, the Göktürks lived north of the Altai Mountains for generations, they were engaged in metal-works.

The highest is the Altai Mountains, which stretch across the western and the southwestern regions of the country on a northwest-to-southeast axis.

Altai, Lake Kutsherla in the Altai Mountains.

* Altai Mountains

* The Hepthalites ( White Huns ) move south from the Altai Mountains region into Transoxiana, Bactria, Khorasan and eastern Persia.

At the Battle of Ikh Bayan in 89 CE, Dou Xian ( d. 92 CE ) defeated the Northern Xiongnu chanyu who then retreated into the Altai Mountains.

The Chinese Book of Zhou ( 7th century ) presents an etymology of the name Turk as derived from " helmet ", explaining that taken this name refers to the shape of the Altai Mountains.

During his time at the Academy, Singer made many expeditions to Siberia, the Altai Mountains, and Karelia.

In the eastern Baraba steppe ( near Novosibirsk ) the boundary turned steep south, encircled the Altai Mountains, and went again eastward including the Tannu-Ola Mountains and Lake Baikal.

Some of the first Bronze Age Scythian burials documented by modern archaeologists include the kurgans at Pazyryk in the Ulagan ( Red ) district of the Altai Republic, south of Novosibirsk in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia ( near Mongolia ).

The Altai Mountains are known as the original locus of the speakers of Turkic as well as other members of the proposed Altaic language group.

Lake Kucherla in the Altai Mountains

Katun River in the Altai Mountains

The Kucerla Valley in the Altai Mountains

In the north of the region is the Sailughem Mountains, also known as Kolyvan Altai, which stretch northeast from 49 ° N and 86 ° E towards the western extremity of the Sayan Mountains in 51 ° 60 ' N and 89 ° E. Their mean elevation is 1, 500 to 1, 750 m. The snow-line runs at 2, 000 m on the northern side and at 2, 400 m on the southern, and above it the rugged peaks tower up some 1, 000 m more.

Lake Teletskoye (, Altay:, Altyn-Köl, literally: " Golden Lake ") is the largest lake in the Altay Mountains and the Altai Republic, Russia, and has a depth of up to 325 meters.

Altay or Altai may refer to:

Gorno-Altaysk (; Altay: Туулу Алтай, Tuulu Altay ) is the capital town of the Altai Republic, Russia, situated east of Moscow.

Altai Republic (, Respublika Altay ; Altay:, Altay Respublika ) is a federal subject of Russia ( a republic ).

Altai ( also Altay ) is a language of the Turkic group of languages.

The western end is located near the northern Altay Mountains in the Russian Altai Republic.

Category for articles relating to the Altai or Altay, a mountain range and people spead across four countries in Central Asia: Altai Republic and Altai Krai in Russia ; eastern Kazakhstan ; Xinjiang in China ; and western Mongolia.

* Repose of Archimandrite Macarius ( Glukharev ) of the Altai, missionary to the Altay region in Siberia ( 1847 )

Those residing in Altai Republic are sometimes grouped together with the Altay ethnic group and those in Kemerovo Oblast are grouped with the Shors ; however, they are recognized as a separate ethnic group by ethnographers.

# Altay ( Turkic ; in the Altai Republic )

However, now that the archeological archives and research results of the former USSR are open to scientists, it has become quite clear that the primal sighthound type evolved between the Kyrgyzstan, the lower Kazakhstan part of Altai and the Afghan plains, and that the earliest actual sighthound breeds were the plains Afghan hounds and the Kyrgyz Taigan.

The Tumed, Chahar, Ordos, Bargut ( or Barga ), Altai Uriankhai, Buryats, Dörböd ( Dörvöd, Dörbed ), Torguud, Dariganga, Üzemchin ( or Üzümchin ), Bayid, Khoton, Myangad ( Mingad ), Eljigin ( Eljigin ), Zakhchin ( Zakchin ), Darkhad, and Oirats ( or Öölds or Ölöts ) are all counted as tribes of the Mongols.

Mountain ranges are found along the southern borders, such as the Caucasus ( containing Mount Elbrus, which at is the highest point in both Russia and Europe ) and the Altai ( containing Mount Belukha, which at the is the highest point of Siberia outside of the Russian Far East ); and in the eastern parts, such as the Verkhoyansk Range or the volcanoes of Kamchatka Peninsula ( containing Klyuchevskaya Sopka, which at the is the highest active volcano in Eurasia as well as the highest point of Asian Russia ).

Several secondary plateaus of lower altitude are also distinguished by geographers, The Katun valley begins as a wild gorge on the south-west slope of Belukha ; then, after a big bend, the river ( 600 km long ) pierces the Katun Alps, and enters a wider valley, lying at an altitude of from 600 to 1, 100 m, which it follows until it emerges from the Altai highlands to join the Biya in a most picturesque region.

Farther north the Altai highlands are continued in the Kuznetsk district, which has a slightly different geological aspect, but still belongs to the Altai system.

On basis of it are performed researches of insect-eaters and rodents of Altai Republic, helminthofauna of vertebrates in biocenoses of taiga, ichthyocenose and animal plankton of Lake Teletskoye.

Many of these styles are also practiced around neighboring regions such as Tuva and Altai.

Altai narrators (" kai-chi ") perform in kargyraa, khöömei and sygyt styles, which are similar to Tuvan.

Though the Altai is lower in elevation than other Asian mountain groups, it is very remote, and much time and planning are required for its approach.

The Pazyryk () burials are a number of Iron Age tombs found in the Pazyryk Valley of the Ukok plateau in the Altai Mountains, Siberia, south of the modern city of Novosibirsk, Russia ; the site is close to the borders with China, Kazakhstan and Mongolia.

As recently as the summer of 2012, tombs are still discovered at various locations, such as the January 2007 unearthing of a timber tomb of a blond chieftain warrior that was unearthed in the permafrost of the Altai mountains region close to the Mongolian border.

There is also the possibility that the current inhabitants of the Altai region are descendants of the Pazyryk culture, a continuity that would accord with current ethnic politics: Archaeogenetics is now being used to study the Pazyryk mummies.

Also associated with these spectacular burial mounds are the Pazyryk, an ancient people who lived in the Altai Mountains lying in Siberian Russia on the Ukok Plateau, near the borders with China, Kazakhstan and Mongolia.

The Vostok 6 landing site coordinates are, which is 200 km West of Barnaul, Region of Altai in the Russian Federation and 7 km south of Baevo, and 650 km North East of Karagandy, Kazakhstan.

Although the genus Prunella is usually used for all the accentors, Alpine Accentor and Altai Accentor are sometimes separated into the genus Laiscopus.

The melodies that are played on the Tsuur are usually imitations of the sound of water, animal cries and birdsongs as heard by shepherds whilst on the steppes or the mountain slopes of the Altai.

They are found in the Transcaucasus and Transbaikal regions of Russia, and, less frequently, in the Altai, Tyva, and Buryatia Republics.

Oirats (, Oirad ; in the past, also Eleuths ) are the westernmost group of the Mongols who unified several tribes origin whose ancestral home is in the Altai region of western Mongolia.

Germans are the second-largest group, at about 2 % ( see Mennonite settlements of Altai ).

Five universities, including Altai State Technical University, Barnaul State Pedagogical University, Altai State Medical University, Altai State Agrarian University and Altai State University, as well as 35 libraries are located in the city.