In the morning, I had a short visit to Abakan and Pablo stayed in the hotel to have some rest from driving. Abakan is rather small and it felt like it was built during the Soviet Union and nothing existed here before. Checking Wikipedia, it seems that it was established in 1780-s, but probably its centre moved as the railroad to Abakan was built. Abakan has plenty of small statues all around the town centre, so I had a quest of finding some of them. My favourite is a couple of cats with sausages.
In the evening, we moved to Sayanogorsk as it was bringing us closer to Cheryomushki where we were to visit the Sayano-Shushensky hydropower station museum and the Shushensky Bor national park. Sayanogorsk is a very small town built to service an aluminun smelter. Probably, some of its residents work at the nearest coal mine or one of the hydropower stations: Maynskaya and Sayano-Shushensky hydropower station.
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| Another Lenin |
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| Monument to an educated cat (Ученому коту) from the A. Pushkin's poem |
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| Monument to beer |
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| Orthodox church with Khakassian twist |
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| Monument to a photographer |
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| Cats with sausages |
Sayanogorsk
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| Lenin again! |
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