Bugotakskie hills in the Novosibirsk region - a natural monument of federal significance. It is located 80 km from the city of Novosibirsk. The length of the hills 350-400 m height of about 100 km.

The original landscape is amazing Bugotakskih hills has long attracted the attention of not only local history but also lovers of nature. After rising to the top of the hill big, you can see the whole village Mountain. Urban-type settlement was founded in 1952 to organize the stone extraction plant. The village is surrounded by industrial zones, quarries special building stone.

Bugotakskie hills - it is a set of twelve hills located semicircle. Most of the highest points are about 400 meters above sea level. The most famous hills is considered a great, shaggy and bald. Bugotakskie hills are composed of igneous rocks - mostly basalt and diabase.

On small hills, there are about 260 species of plants. Many of them are included in the "Red Book of the Novosibirsk region." The first thing that is striking when visiting Bugotakskih hills - a sharp contrast flora of the southern and northern slopes. The main feature of Bugotakskih hills is that their northern slopes are covered with birch and aspen forests with thick grass and the southern - is a solid bare rocky steppe. Therefore, the nature of the hills presented a kind of flora and fauna (forest and grassland communities).

At the same animals on Bugotakskih little hills, mostly common in forest species. On the sunny hillsides of northern and live sand lizard. Among the birds most common tree pipit, skylark, rook and yellow wagtail. In addition, it is also possible to meet predators, such as hen harrier, kestrel, buzzard, falcon, merlin, greater spotted eagle, white owl, Ural owl.

In 1998 Bugotakskie hill received the status of a protected natural area, after which they were placed under state protection.