Swan Lake “Swan Lake” – that is how people call the lake Svetloe in the Sovetski region on Altai. Every year you can observe here a magnificent spectacle – up to 500 snowy-white swans and more than 2500 ducks fly in these places on wintering. Migratory birds choose this nonfreezing lake more than half of the century ago. Nowadays an observation deck is organized here, birds are feed by local hunters. In the zone of continental climate Altai is the only place, where swans overwinter. In 1973 there was opened a reserve “Swan” on the lake. Some years ago the day of swans’ arrival to Altai became an official date of the beginning of the winter touristic season in the region. In 2014 in the end of November a holiday “Altai wintering” was held for the first time. In these days special bus tours to the lake Svetloe are organized for tourists, for each of them could admire an unusual spectacle – white birds, gracefully floating on the water, surrounded by Siberian snow.