Английский язык. - 36 стр.

- Are there many lakes? What are they famous for?
- Altai is famous for a thousand of blue lakes. The largest is
  Kulundinskoye lake and the most attractive is lake Teletskoye. More
  than one hundred rivers flow into it and only one the Beya outflows.
- Why is the Ob treated to be the most important water route?
- There are few such rivers on the globe. Its length is five thousand
  kilometers. Only the Nile, then the Mississippi with its inflow the
  Missouri and the Amur, the Yenisei and the Lena are longer than the
  Ob. It begins in glaciers of the Altai Mountains, carries in itself the
  waters of two rivers – the Katun and the Beya, and flows up to the
  Arctic Ocean. It washes the area of about 3 mln. square kilometers and
  links Altai with the Northern regions of Western Siberia.
- Have you ever been to the Mountainous Altai?
- Naturally. Why?
- How did it impress you?
- Oh, I’ve been to the Belokurikha health resort with its famous radon
  springs and I was greatly impressed by a picturesque corner of the
  Altai foothills with a mountain river and rich vegetation.

          Dialogue 3.
- What are the main industries in Altai?
- During the Soviet period such important industries as electropower
  engineering, agricultural machine-building, chemistry, oil-industry,
  timber-industry, production of building materials and others have been
  founded and are constantly developing here.
- What does Altai produce?
- Today Altai produces engines for machinery, diesels and metal-cutting
  lathes, forge presses and tyres, electric pumps and steam-boilers,
  chemical and textile goods, furniture and sophisticated home
  appliances, faceted diamonds and tourist equipment and what not.
- Why is Altai named the"Breadwinner of Siberia"?
- To tell you the truth, Altai is a major agricultural producer in Russia. It
  produces millions of tons of grain, meat, milk, vegetables and potatoes,
  sugar beet, oil-giving sunflowers, soy, berries and fruits, etc.
- What are the main branches of agriculture?
- They include grain-production, stock-breeding, fodder producing,
  maral-breeding and bee-keeping.
- Thank you. I appreciate your willingness to answer my numerous
  questions.



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