On a vast plain lived a rich Khan Altai, whose most important wealth was a daughter - a beautiful Katun. Numerous fans sought the hands of a beautiful woman, but were rejected. No one knew that she secretly loved the young shepherd Biya.
An angry father and said: "I will give you for whoever I want." Seeing its hopeless situation, Katun decided to escape to her beloved. In a dark dark night, she disappeared, and in the morning the khan, having discovered the loss, gathered his army and said that the Katun would belong to the one who would catch up with her. The wars rushed in pursuit, but Katun turned the river and rushed headlong north, punching the road among the stones. Leaving the Bai flocks, the shepherd Biya, also turned into a swift stream and rushed to meet his beloved. Do not catch up with the war fugitive. She met with her chosen one, rushed to him in arms and they flowed together, forming a mighty Siberian river Ob.
The Khan became angry, he turned all his unlucky servants into boulders and stones in anger, and he himself petrified the high mountain Belukha. The fastest of wars - Babyrgan - escaped farthest and now stands, petrified, on a plain far from the mountains