Russian people, having come to the Urals, brought with them a full set of their fairy tales, songs, and legends. But they didn’t come out of nowhere. Russian fairy tales were met by Mansi, Khanty, Bashkir, Selkup, Tatar, Udmurt, Komi-Permyak, Mari tales... many different peoples lived in the Urals, because the first people settled here about 300 thousand years ago. To this motley mixture of tales of different peoples were added later stories about evil factory owners, about brave robbers, about the daring chieftain Ermak, about hidden treasures... In this book you will read the most ancient myths about the creation of the world, and city stories about ghosts, and almost modern factory bikes, because all together these are amazing Ural legends. Source: