Belukha mountain is the highest point of pine ridge and the highest point of Siberia. Belukha mountain is one of the natural attractions of the Ust-Koksinsky district of the Altai mountains.

The mountain has two peaks, which have the shape of an irregular pyramid Western (4435 m) and Eastern (4506 m). Between the peaks is a depression — saddle belugas, whose height 4000 m. the top of the mountain together with spaced right and left peaks of the Crown of Altai and Delaunay, form Akkem wall, falling almost vertically downward in the direction of the Akkem glacier. All the glaciers are quite large, ranging from 2 square miles to 10 square km.

The name of Belukha mountain was given to the Russians because great snow cover on the peaks. The locals still call her Musu-Tuu, which means "ice mountain".

Who first measured the height of the mountain in 1835, became a naturalist, physician and traveler F. Gebler. Thanks goniometric device Gebler could measure the height of the peaks belugas relative to White river Bareli and to evaluate its about 3361 m. In 1895 an attempt to measure the height of the peaks has taken V. Sapozhnikov, Professor of the Tomsk University. According to his measurements, Eastern Belukha amounted 4542 m. Following who made the measurement in 1935 became the mountaineer instructor D. Guschin, there was obtained a new, completely unexpected result - 4630 m.

Mountain Belukha mountain built of rocks of the upper and middle Cambrian. On the tectonic instability of the mountain numerous cracks, faults and thrusts of rocks. Micro-earthquakes happen here quite often.

For belokanskogo array characterized by the diversity of vegetation. According to many researchers, most of the ridge is part of the pine mountain area where there are a huge variety of forest and Alpine formations. From small mammals can be found here: the tundra shrew, red-grey, red and floppy-eared vole. On the right Bank of the Katun river is inhabited by the Zokor and the Altai birch mouse.

In 1978, Belukha mountain has been declared a nature monument of the Gorno-Altai Autonomous oblast, and since 1998 she is in the UNESCO world natural heritage site "Golden mountains of Altai".