About the book: 1974 / At various times, the Chelyabinsk Regional Executive Committee, the regional Council of the All-Russian Society for Nature Conservation, the regional television studio and the Commission for the Protection of Nature of the Urals at the Ural Scientific Center of the Academy of Sciences The USSR conducted three environmental expeditions in the Southern Urals. The author of this book was a participant in all these expeditions. The material he collected served as its basis.