A small Museum of Honey Hunting is located near the cordon of the Shulgan-Tash Nature Reserve on the way to the Kapova Cave. Entering the territory of the reserve, tourists first see the beautiful rock "Sleeping Mammoth Grotto", which from some angles really looks like a mammoth.
The Museum of Honey Hunting is located 1 kilometer from the cordon of the Shulgan-Tash Nature Reserve on the banks of the Belaya River. Here you can see the kolodnaya apiary, as well as a small but very interesting museum dedicated to Honey Hunting in Bashkiria.
The heyday of honey hunting in Bashkiria occurred in the 18th century, and in the 19th century, kolodny apiaries began to prevail. Borti-hives for bees that are cut down in the trunk of a tree. They are suspended from trees. Kolodny apiaries are also made from tree trunks, but they are not suspended from trees.
The honey hunting has been preserved only in the Burzyansky district of Bashkiria in the Shulgan-Tash nature reserves, as well as in the Altyn Solok Nature Reserve. The preservation of honey hunting was the main goal of the creation of these reserves. The Burzyanskaya bortevaya bee is a special kind of honey bee, which is common in the Southern Urals.
Borti-honey differs from ordinary honey from frame hives in that it is more saturated with perga and wax. It is more mature and has more useful trace elements. Borti-honey almost always has a dark brown color.
