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An overview of the tourist and recreational potential of the Katun River valley and its left bank area in all its sections: upper, middle and lower is presented. The publications of these authors and other researchers who have highlighted similar issues in other regions of the country, and scientists who raise related issues of the tourism sector, recreational potential, organization of tourist space as well as the construction of networks of routes and tourist trails, including environmental ones, are considered. Specialized software tools were used in this study, on the basis of which methods of mapping the territories under study were applied, followed by the use of the modeling method, which made it possible to fully reflect the resource tourism and recreational potential of the left bank area of the Katun River and justify the design features of tourist routes. The features of the development of the tourism sector are considered not only in the valley of the Katun River. The fact of inaccessibility of certain places in the Altai Mountains is described, associated with the remoteness of the upper and middle sections of the river valley from the main highways and territories that represent a higher value for the tourist flow throughout the year. The software used in the study made it possible to display the main objects of tourist interest on the left bank of the Katun River as well as to simulate individual shooting situations when displaying trails, routes and their attractions as well as route networks where a further development of the tourist, recreational and excursion sphere of the Altai Republic and Altai krai, within the boundaries of which the largest transit waterway, the Katun River, flows.