A view into the valley of the anonymous torrent descending from from the southern principal slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range between the Chikty and Akbul Rivulets from a cirque crest. Light-green are alpine meadows, dark-green on the slopes apart are thickets of the dwarf birch (Betula rotundifolia Spach; = Betula nana L. ssp. rotundifolia (Spach) Malyshev).

3000 m above sea level, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, the Altai Mts., West Siberia, Russia. 10th July 1998. O. Kosterin.