Titovskaya Sopka is a rocky volcanic hill rising above the western edge of Chita, offering the best view available of the city and the vast surrounding steppe. The ascent from the city takes about 30 minutes on foot. At the top a Soviet-era war memorial and an Orthodox church occupy the summit, and on clear days the view extends to the mountains along the Mongolian border.
The real reason to climb it — beyond the view — is the Neolithic rock art scattered across the basalt surfaces. Several hundred individual engravings have been documented, many of them clearly visible from the marked path. The site gives some sense of how long this landscape has been inhabited: long before Chita was a Russian settlement, long before the Mongols, these hills were already home to peoples who left their mark on the stone.