Kushtau

Kushtau(Bashkir: Ҡуштау — «double mountain») - one of the four shihans, located in Ishimbaysky District, on the border with the city Sterlitamak in Russia. The remainder of the reef, the Lower Permian (Late Paleozoic) reef massif, formed over 230 million years ago in the tropical sea.

Kushtau
Geography
LocationIshimbaysky District, Bashkortostan,
Russia
Parent rangeSouthern Ural

This is natural monument may be destructed with The Bashkir soda company and Russian authorities.[1][2]

Despite the protests of the Bashkir public, the Shihan will be destroyed. In 2018, Radiy Habirov decided to transfer it to the Bashkir soda company[3].

Physiographic characteristic

Length - 4 km, width 700–1400 m, height - above the soil level - 251 m, the absolute height above the sea level - 357 m.

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