 The highest point of the krai is Grandiozny Peak in the East Sayan Mountains at an elevation of .According to archaeologists, the first people reached Siberia circa 40,000 BC.The Andronovo culture, a group of Bronze Age peoples, lived in the area around 2000–900 BCE, the remains of which were discovered in 1914 near the village of Andronovo, Uzhursky District.