Katanda

It is located in the Katandinsky steppe at an altitude of 960 m. The village is stretched for 3 km from south to north along the banks of the Malaya and Bolshaya Katanda rivers and the Katun tributaries. To get to the center of Katanda, you need to turn left Ust-Cox - Thyungur . From the center overlooking the gorge of the river Lower Kuragan . The distance to the district center is 53 km. 1.5 km south of the village center Katun flows.

In the vicinity of the village in 1865, academician V. V. Radlov investigated the first monuments of the Pazyryk culture . In the Great Katandinsky mound, he first discovered the frostbite, thanks to which unique articles of cloth, leather, and wood were preserved. In total, several dozens of early iron barrows were excavated in the vicinity of Katanda. Archaeological finds, including the famous Catanian tail coat - a fur coat with a long tail, a felt carpet with colored appliqués, wooden carvings decorated in gold foil, made in the Scythian-Siberian animal style , are in the State Historical Museum . The Katandin burial mounds showed Pazyryk jewelry, amazing for its time. Later, the burial mounds of the ancient Turkic time were excavated, where they found the burial of a warrior dressed in silk clothes, and the fabric ornament included Chinese and Iranian motifs. At the head of the head was a silver vessel with a runic lettering. A sword, iron and bone arrowheads, and a horse in full gear were found in the burial ^[2] .

The village was founded in 1836 by “those who declined to split with baptized aliens”. Among the first settlers were five families. For a long time they could not settle down because of the active resistance of the local residents - the Altaians , but later the friendship won.

Before the revolution, the Siberian Cossacks of the Bikatun Cossack Line were quartered here. The chieftain lived here. According to the official version, the last Cossack ataman with the rank of Esaula, the holder of the four George's Crosses Alexander Petrovich Kaygorodov in the house was shot by the Red Army soldiers, defeating the entire Cossack detachment. According to local residents, the chieftain and his squad, covering the outgoing local population, left through the mountains to China . Currently, on the site of the last battle of the Red Guard detachment and on the house in Katanda, where the detachment of PF Sukhov stayed, memorial plaques were installed. A monument was erected on a mass grave. The care of monuments is carried out by the revived Cossack community of the Ust-Koksinsky district ^[2] .

There is an agricultural enterprise ^[7], private farms, a weather station, the DSU, a nursing home, a hospital, and a school on the basis of which the museum is established.

Hero of the Soviet Union Pimen Nikolaevich Nagovitsin was born in the village.

On the outskirts of the village, next to the cheese factory there is a spring, the healing properties of which have not yet been studied, but local residents claim that it helps with angina , diseases of the feet and other diseases ^[2] .

• Map sheet M-45-XV Katanda . Scale: 1: 200,000.