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TOMSK, January 8 – RIA Tomsk. Initiators of holding excursions on the Vasyugan Swamp plan to hold the
first demonstration tour in February, 2017, the head of information center and
the commission on internal tourism of the Tomsk office of the Russian
Geographical Society (RGS) Yulia Kalyuzhnaya reported to RIA Tomsk.
Earlier it was reported that a wildlife area is created in 2002 in the
Tomsk region in the territory of the Vasyugan Swamp. It was supposed that it
will entirely enter the reserve which will be placed in the territory of the
Novosibirsk and Tomsk regions. Also it was reported that the Tomsk office of
RGS and tour operators develop excursion tours across the Vasyugan Swamp.
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"The project moves ahead.We will invite media as guests for the first,
advertizing route. We plan it at the beginning of February. We want to start a
complex route at first – across all Tomsk region, where visit of swamps will
enter, and to work more detailed route a little later", – Kalyuzhnaya
told.
According to her, the first excursion tours are planned for the beginning
of 2017. However the exact mechanism of their carrying out is studied so far.
The area of the Vasyugan Swamp makes 53 thousand square kilometers. They
are located in Western Siberia – in the territory of the Vasyugan Plain, which
most part is in the Tomsk region, and also in territories of the Novosibirsk,
Omsk regions and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, between the large Siberian
Rivers Ob and Irtysh.