A group of nine tourists - some reportedly from Siberia’s largest university - hit by tragedy on the South Chuya mountain ridge.
Geologists say as much as 44.8 billion roubles-worth has been found in valley to the north of famous range.
Sixty researchers will spend ten days inside Kek-Tash Cave in the Altai mountains.
A 15 million rouble subsidy has been granted to airline S7 to operate flights on the Moscow to Gorno-Altaisk route during the rest of 2012.
Don't shoot but instead feed starving roe deer, decide men in the Altai Mountains.
Now the prickly rodent lives no closer than 2,000 kilometres away, but its remains - recently dated - are scattered in caves of the Altai Mountains.
Giant ramparts guarded Altai Mountains against attack from the north, says leading archeologist Professor Andrey Borodovsky.