“Crimean glade” - Mount Sober-Bash - “Crimean glade. Tourist recreation center "Krymskaya Polyana" Urochishche Krymskaya Polyana
Tourist recreation center " Crimean glade» "Krymskaya Polyana" is a tourist base specializing in providing services for active recreation. Located in the upper reaches of the Afips River in the Seversky district Krasnodar region. The unique natural landscape of the base allows vacationers to diversify their leisure time with a climb to the Plancke Rocks, excursions to the Bystry spring, Red Rocks. Cozy two-story houses with rooms with a capacity of 6 and 8 beds will gladly welcome vacationers. After a day full of events and impressions, guests will be invited to relax and take a steam bath in a real Russian wood-burning bathhouse, and barbecue lovers will be able to test their culinary skills on the grills provided to them. Evening gatherings near a huge fire and songs with a guitar are also popular at the base. Equipped with accommodation areas tent camps, there are grounds for sporting events (football and volleyball fields). Every year, it is here that the youth rally “Region 93” is held under the patronage of the governor of the Krasnodar Territory. The main specialization of the base employees is working with children. Every year, children from many Russian cities go to summer camps at the camp site. Experienced instructors accompany children on hiking trips, help them cook food over a fire, and teach them how to survive in near-extreme conditions. The children are instilled with team spirit, the ability to achieve their goals, and management skills. And the stories told during the flickering flames of the evening fire remain in the hearts of young tourists for a long time. Enjoy the splendor mountain landscapes, crystal clear air and just relax in the “Crimean Glade”. Unforgettable impressions all vacationers are guaranteed! Location and territory "Crimean Glade" is located in the upper reaches of the Afips River in the Seversky district of the Krasnodar Territory, in a mountainous and wooded area, 7.5 km from the village of Krepostnaya. The area of the base is 3.9 hectares. Accommodation Cozy two-story houses with several rooms with a capacity of 6 and 8 beds will gladly welcome vacationers. Common room with satellite TV, common kitchen with stoves and utensils. Meals Self-catering in a shared kitchen with stoves and a set of dishes; on the grill or fire from your own products. For groups of 20 people or more, food can be prepared by the base chef according to a custom menu (for an additional fee). Beach Base is located in the upper reaches of the Afips River. The beach is rocky. Facilities and services – satellite TV, – parking, – kitchen with gas stove and set of dishes, refrigerators, – iron, – outdoor shower, – Russian bath. Tours and special offers Weekend holidays. Paintball. Corporate holidays. Organization of accommodation on the basis of participants of off-site festive and business events, competitions, tourist trips. Children's tourism. Excursions to the Plank Rocks, the Bystry spring, and the Red Rocks. Additional information: Animals: pets are allowed. Documents: Passport. Check-out time: Hour of arrival at the base. Duration of stay: no restrictions. Water supply: water from an artesian well. Nature of operation: year-round operation. Cost of accommodation Price level: economical, average May-September: day stay 100 rub. per person, overnight - 200 rubles October-April: 350 rubles. per day per person Accommodation price includes: Accommodation, use sports grounds, beach, sports and kitchen equipment, awnings, barbecues, satellite TV. Discounts: Children under 6 years old – free, leader of a group of tourists from 15 people – free. Address: Krasnodar region, Seversky district, 7.5 km from the village of Krepostnaya
Length 17-18 km; duration! - 1.5 days; elevation changes 600-640 m.
The route is recommended for people with minimal experience of weekend hikes with overnight stays in the field. The shelter can be reached by a regular bus to the village of Krepostnoy, and then by passing transport or on foot 10 km to the side along the village of Plancheskaya Shchel along a dirt road.
The starting point of the pedestrian part of the route is the tourist shelter “Krymskaya Polyana”. Built in . the mid-seventies in connection with the development of the country’s first planned tourist route for high school students “On the partisan paths of Kuban.” At first, frame tents were installed here, gradually the territory was developed, modern two-story cottages were built, stationary kitchens and dining rooms were equipped, electricity was supplied, etc. Now the shelter can simultaneously accommodate 350-400 people. There are two volleyball courts, football
sick field, sports and tourist equipment, bathhouse, dance hall, recreation center.
From the fire pits located in the depths of the shelter, into the forest, in a western direction, a path goes up the stream, to the Crimean pass. Gradually the valley narrows and takes on the character of a gorge. The stream dries up in the summer, but the rest of the year the water flow is constant. It goes easily and freely. After about 20 minutes an increasing steepness begins to be felt. The path goes either to the right bank or to the left. Often the road is blocked by fallen trees, but the marked planned trail does not allow us to go astray (the marking will accompany us only to the Krymsky Pass). The pass mark is located in the area of the plot. One of the roads goes to south direction, to the Partizansky shelter. We, having passed the plot, descend into the valley of the Soleny stream, direction azimuth 280-285. When descending, you need to find any of the numerous animal trails, which will lead in 15-20 minutes to the Soleny riverbed. In total, from the shelter to Soleny 3.5 km, 1 hour 10 minutes - 1 hour 20 minutes. There is a road along the left bank of the stream. We need to cross it and start climbing along one of the buttresses stretching to the southern, steep slopes of Sober-Bash. At first the steepness is quite significant, then the ridge flattens and turns from southwest to west. You can feel the pristine nature here. It is difficult to advance - small areas of cotoneaster alternate with impenetrable thickets of azalea.
Yellow azalea, or yellow rhododendron, is a shrub up to 3 m in height from the heather family. Blooms in May - June. Widely distributed in foothill and mountain forest areas, as well as in the subalpine zone up to 2000 m above sea level, in some places it forms larger thickets. The leaves of yellow rhododendron contain substances of a glycosidic nature, sterols and tannins. Flower petals contain essential oil, which is used in the perfume industry in the production of high-grade perfumes. Yellow azalea is a highly poisonous plant, especially its flowers and buds. During flowering, it emits an intoxicating odor that causes headaches.
The huge Sober-Bash can be seen through the thickets.
About an hour after the start of the climb to the buttress at the highest point, we leave the ridge, descending towards the Dulevoya Gap, to an overgrown plot. From there, in 5 minutes we go to the “Sobieska Round the World” - the old ring road around the mountain. If we follow it to the southwest, we will again find ourselves in the basin of the Soleny stream. Let's go in the opposite direction. We continue to traverse the eastern slopes of Sober-Bash. There are individual giant specimens of oak trees with several girths...
Not far from the fork, before climbing to the top of Sober-Basha, the “circumnavigation” leads, after 25-30 minutes, to the turn to the top. The main thing is not to miss this turn. It is located opposite a burnt tree with a hollow, 200-250 meters before reaching the Duleva Shchel stream.
There is very little left, but these are the most difficult hundreds of meters. A long, very steep climb, uncharacteristic of logical, “smart” forest paths. But we have no choice. Alpenstocks (a long stick with a pointed tip) will come in handy. The steepness of the trail increases to 30-35. You need to walk in a tight group, with an interval of 0.5-1 m between participants, without stopping, evenly, at a slow pace. After 200-250 steps, take “minutes” - short stops for rest. Hold the alpenstock in the “cane” position, that is, in one hand, like an ordinary stick.
In the beech-maple forest, 500 m from the top, there is a spring, one of the sources of Dulevoya Gap. In general, there are many similar springs on the slopes of Sober-Bash. Some of them are forgotten and abandoned, others (Rimba or Kalina, for example) are used to quench thirst. We cross a flat top mountain meadow. In the sixties and seventies, this peak in winter was a place of pilgrimage for Krasnodar tourists and skiers. Gradually, Sober-Bash skiing lost its position, giving the palm to more promising ski slopes- on Mount Lysaya (near Chilipsi station), Mount Semiglava, the dam of the Krasnodar reservoir.
However, let's return to our route. Passing two
a huge, gently sloping clearing; through a small strip of forest we reach the highest point. A geodetic point and a bust of V.I. Lenin are installed here.
Much has been written, told, and songs composed about Mount Sober-Bash. We will give only the azimuths of the directions to the elevations opening from the top: Mount Medvezhya - 300, Ubin-Su - 253, Papai - 243, Pshchada - 230, -Bolshoi Athene - 170, Ram's Horn - 145, shelter "Crimean Glade" -128, highest point Pshaf ridge - 93. A circular panorama from the highest point of Sober-Basha does not open. Directions to the northern bearings can be seen from other open points of the mountain.
In total, the ascent from the shelter took 4-5 hours of walking, the altitude gain was about 650 m. We return to the “circumnavigation” along the ascent route. If we proceed from the fact that the time spent on the descent, in relation to the time spent on the ascent, at the same distance, is two times less, then we will cover this path in 25-30 minutes (the ascent took 50 minutes - 1 hour We will need alpenstocks again. With the feeling of winners on the “Sober round the world”, we descend to the place of the big halt - first to the intersection of the trail with Dulya Gap, and then we need to climb a little (100 m) through the forest to a small hillock. firewood.
After lunch or a snack, we take an excursion to the waterfalls. There are more than twenty of them in the Duleva Gap, large and small. Just above the path, one of them falls from a 5-meter ledge. But the most remarkable waterfall is Utaenny, 300 m below the trail. Across its entire 11-meter height there is a giant limestone-sandstone formation. When there is a lot of water, the sound of the waterfall can be heard half a kilometer away. Oak, ash, and dogwood trees grow around. At the lower edge of the ledge there is a well-developed pool. In hot sunny weather, a tired traveler will be happy to refresh himself in its watery surface. From the resting place we go back to the shelter using a shorter route. The landmark is a wide and gentle forest ridge, stretching east-southeast, towards Solenaya Balka. After 30 minutes we come to the destroyed dolmen. It is not described in the literature. It is only known that in the Sober-Bash area there were several dozen dolmens. Some of them were found by students of the Agricultural Institute, led by the tireless nature researcher V. Likhachev. Here is what the famous Kuban archaeologist Professor N.V. Anfimov writes about dolmens:
“Literally, a dolmen is a stone table. And indeed, in the west of France, in Brittany, dolmens look like huge stone tables. The dolmens of the North-West Caucasus are somewhat different. The typical form of a dolmen is a dolmen made up of four massive stone slabs and covered with a fifth slab. The slabs were carefully hewn, and grooves were made in the longitudinal walls to strengthen the transverse slabs... As a rule, an oval or round hole was made in the front wall, closed with a mushroom-shaped stone sleeve (plug)... Dolmens have long attracted the attention of the local population. Poetic legends and tales were formed about them, which were passed down from mouth to mouth, from generation to generation and have survived to this day. According to Adyghe legend, in ancient times a tribe of dwarfs and giants lived in the mountains. The dwarfs did not have houses, and they did not have enough strength to build homes for themselves. That is why they were exposed to all sorts of hardships of a shelterless life: they got wet in the rain, froze, and were covered with snow in winter. The giants took pity and decided to build houses for the dwarfs. The giants were so strong that each of them could cut out a huge slab of stone and, putting it on their shoulders, bring it to the construction site. Four such slabs, folded in the form of a square box, were used to make a house, covered with a fifth slab on top. Instead of two beams... the giants punched round holes in the front slab, through which the dwarfs rode in on hares. And that’s why the Circassians called dolmens “spyuna”, which means dwarf houses. The tribe of dwarfs died out long ago, and there are no more giants, but the houses of the dwarfs still stand. Such is the legend.
The Russian population... called dolmens “heroic huts.” In fact, these are burial structures, a kind of crypts, mainly dating back to the second half of the 3rd - 2nd millennium BC, i.e. having 3-, 4-, 5-thousand years ago. They
found alone, in small groups or forming significant clusters... As a rule, dolmens are always located on the surface, but they are also found dug into the ground..." !
“Our” dolmen is also tiled. In all likelihood, it, half dug into the ground, was destroyed in the post-war period. Only one slab (2X2 m) turned out to be intact. The second one is split near the entrance hole. The diameter of the hole is 25-30 cm. The façade of the dolmen was turned to the south, towards the lower part of the ridge. Traces of human processing are visible on the slabs.
Continuing the route, we descend from the ridge to the Dulevoya Glit watercourse. Adhering to an azimuth of 120-130, after 1.5-2 km we get to the already familiar Soleny stream. You can return from it in two ways. The first is along the original path through the Crimean pass. The second option is somewhat longer, but more interesting. From the fork in the markings, take the upper left path: Having crossed the col, we traverse the southern slopes of an altitude of 341 m. A 20-minute walk to the shelter opens up a good panorama of the Afipsa valley and the surrounding rises - the Korabelny, Fortress, Krasny, Shiroky ridges. In the distance in the south, in the bluish haze, you can see the regular cone of Mount Bolshoi Afips.
The history of which, however, lasts for centuries.
It is located in the southern part of the peninsula, in the Bakhchisarai region and has less than a quarter of a thousand inhabitants, and at the same time is perhaps the most interesting place all of Crimea. And the point is not only that it is located among majestic mountains, in a picturesque, always green valley through which the small mountain river Markur flows. This village is located in what was once the powerful principality of Theodoro, with its capital at Mangup-Kala - a very ancient cave city, the remains of which can still be seen in the vicinity of Polyana. Although people chose this inaccessible place rich in fresh water back in the 8th century, they developed the local lands and were engaged in pottery.
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How to get there
The most convenient way to get to Mount Sadyk-Kaya, on which Mangup is located, is from Bakhchisaray. If you go by taxi or private car, the journey will take you no more than half an hour - or a little longer by regular bus, which runs through nearby villages. Also from any resort town You can get to this place along the Yalta - Simferopol highway, turning in the direction of the village of Khmelnitskoe and then following the signs. But any travel agency will probably offer you a specialized excursion.
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History and sights of Polyana
The Principality of Theodoro, and initially it had the name Doro, was founded in the 13th century by Greeks who settled in Crimea, popularizing Orthodoxy and the developed culture of Byzantium here. Gradually it expanded its borders, the population increased, and fortifications were erected to protect it. But even this could not save the principality from plunder; over time, it was no longer able to repel numerous enemy invasions and began to decline. But by the 15th century, Theodoro entered a new milestone in its development, thanks to the fact that a group of Mangup princes (descendants of an ancient and very noble Armenian family) were able to consolidate the local nobility and restore the former power of their small state.
At that time, the population of this territory was more than two hundred thousand inhabitants (and this is far from being a lot for the Middle Ages, and especially for the Crimea), Orthodoxy was actively preached on its territory, and numerous churches were built. It was then that the principality received the name Theodoro. But its history was still short-lived, already at the end of the 15th century, dominance was established here Ottoman Empire, and the Christian population was gradually eradicated.
Today, the ruins of the ancestral castle of one of the nobles and the remains of an ancient principality testify to the once majestic principality Orthodox church with a small church cemetery.
Unfortunately, at the dawn of communism, these priceless monuments were not given much importance and were literally stolen stone by stone for the construction of collective farm buildings. But, nevertheless, the church in the cave city, carved into the rock, has been preserved; ancient frescoes were even discovered here.
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Mangup-Kale
In general, it can be argued that the former capital of Theodoro - Mangup-Kale - has nevertheless been preserved quite well, so one can even judge its former power from its ruins. On three sides it is protected by the high, steep, and therefore absolutely impregnable Sadyk-Kaya mountain, and the city is also surrounded by a powerful fortress wall, which is simply impossible to overcome. There are grottoes and deep caves, which were created by nature itself, were skillfully improved by people and arranged in such a way that in case of prolonged deposition there would be no need or inconvenience. This was especially true for stocks drinking water- in addition to two fairly deep mountain streams, a deep well with spring water was also dug to quench the thirst of city residents.
Mangup-Kale cave city
When the Turks took possession of Crimea, they turned the cave city into a real dungeon for prisoners, evidence of this is the walled up windows of the buildings. But Mangup was not a purely defensive structure; judging by the remains of the round castle walls and intricate decorative details, local princes built their palaces here on a special scale and chic.
Today Mangup-Kale is invariably included in the list of the most popular and frequently visited places in tourist and excursion routes By mountainous Crimea and is cultural heritage Crimean Autonomous Republic.
Modern Polyana is located at the foot of Sadyk-Kai, and from here, as a rule, one begins to climb to cave city. All conditions have been created for tourists here - there are shops, several summer cafes, where you can easily rest and satisfy your hunger by tasting Crimean Tatar cuisine.
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