Gornaya Shoria, Mountainous Shoria, or Mountain Shoria (, ''Gornaya Shoriya'', cjs, Тағлығ Шор, ''Tağlığ Şor'') is a territory in southern Siberia, Russia, east of the Altay Mountains. It is the southern part of Kemerovo Oblast. The indigenous population of the region are the

Shors Shors or Shorians ( Shor: , ''shor-kizhi'', , ''tadar-kizhi'', , ''shor'', , ''tadar'', , ''shor-kizhiler'', , ''tadar-kizhiler'', , ''shorlar'', , ''tadarlar'') are a Turkic ethnic group native to Kemerovo Oblast of Russia. Their self design ...

. The territory is mountainous: spurs of Abakan Range, Salair Ridge and Kuznetsk Alatau. It is rich in ores, and it is also part of the

Kuznetsk Coal Basin The Kuznetsk Basin (russian: Кузнецкий угольный бассейн, Кузбасс; often abbreviated as Kuzbass or Kuzbas) in southwestern Siberia, Russia, is one of the largest coal mining areas in Russia, covering an area of aroun ...

. Other industries include

logging Logging is the process of cutting, processing, and moving trees to a location for transport. It may include skidding, on-site processing, and loading of trees or logs onto trucks or skeleton cars. Logging is the beginning of a supply chain ...

fur hunting The fur trade is a worldwide industry dealing in the acquisition and sale of animal fur. Since the establishment of a world fur market in the early modern period, furs of boreal, polar and cold temperate mammalian animals have been the most ...

, pine nut harvesting and tourism (ski resort in

Sheregesh Sheregesh (Russian language, Russian and cjs, Шерегеш) is an types of inhabited localities in Russia, urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Tashtagolsky District of Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. Population: Postal code: 652971. The main ...

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