Blue Lake (Chirik-Kel) in Kabardino-Balkaria. Mystery of nature. Why is the mystery of the Blue Lakes in the KBR still not solved? & nbsp Kabardino Balkaria blue lake is an unusual story

This is one of the deepest karst lakes in the world. There are no fish in this lake, many legends are connected with this lake. It is known that in the 1930s a truck with port wine fell into the lake.

The Blue Lake is located in the picturesque Cherek Gorge on the territory of the eponymous district. Chereksky district is the largest in Kabardino-Balkaria and the most sparsely populated. The fact is that most of the area of ​​​​the region is occupied by mountains. Here are 5 of the 7 five-thousanders of the Caucasus and the longest glacier in Europe. One of the oldest mountaineering camps in our country, Bezengi, is also located here, where the legendary Soviet mountaineering was born.


(Chirik-Kol) is a unique monument of nature. It is the world's second deepest karst spring and is a water-bearing karst mine with sheer walls. On the surface, the lake has a maximum length of 235m and a width of 130m. The minimum depth of the mine is 179m, the maximum is 258m. In the extended upper part, the depth varies from 0 to 40 m. The lake has no tributaries, but is a drain. A river flows out of it with a flow rate of 0.8 cubic meters. m/sec. The water temperature is 9 degrees all year round. Visibility under water practically does not depend on the weather and reaches 20-50 meters. There is a possibility that at a depth of 2558 meters there is not a bottom, but an inflection and then the Blue Lake will be the deepest source in the world. Research is ongoing.


The transparency of the water is stunning. Depth 15 meters:

From the history of Blue Lake research
One of the first to describe Blue Lake was the geographer, zoologist and glaciologist I. Dinnik in his work “Trip to Balkaria in 1887-1890”. At the beginning of the 20th century, I. Shchukin carried out geographical research in this area. In 1926–27, Ivan Georgievich Kuznetsov, a native of Nalchi, who graduated from the Mining Institute in Petrograd in 1919, was studying the Blue Lake, professor, doctor of science. He was awarded the silver medal of the Russian Geographical Society for the study of Lake Chirik-Kel. The reservoir of the lake is a deep well with sheer walls, composed of layered limestone. Water enters the well from below, from a great depth, and is under great pressure, because it flows out of the lake itself in a powerful stream. In June 1980, Lake Chirik-Kel was studied by the expedition of the Institute of Geography named after A.I. Vakhushti Bagrationi of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR under the guidance of Doctor of Geographical Sciences G. Gigineishvili.
The water in the lake is poorly mineralized and only algae live in it.



The history of the creation of the Blue Lake dive center must begin in June 1982. It was at this very time that Moscow student Roma Prokhorov (future Russian record holder in diving depth and director of the Blue Lake dive center) appeared on the shores of Blue Lake, loaded with trunks with cylinders and diving equipment.

He had a lot of strength, a lot of enthusiasm, but little money and normal equipment. The one that was prepared according to the principle of a circle of skillful hands. The scuba gear is assembled from stolen carbon dioxide cylinders, the depth gauge is made entirely by one's own hands. With this treasure, Roma rushed into the abyss of the Blue Lake along a steep wall towards new discoveries. He escaped, of course, by a miracle, but he nevertheless set the first record of Lake Roman. Reached the mark - 70 meters. For comparison, I would like to note that Jacques-Yves Cousteau with his partner named Taillez, diving in Vaucluse in 1946, made 4 dives and reached a depth of 46 meters, and only 9 years later his team was able to reach 74 meters, having made in Vaucluse about 80 dives.

The building of the dive center, built by the government of Kabardino-Balkaria, consists of two tiers. The lower one, with an area of ​​about 150 square meters, is carved into the rock and has access directly to the surface of the water to the launch pad. There are warm locker rooms, showers and toilets, rooms for preparing and storing equipment, a compressor room, and a pressure chamber. The entire lower module is equipped with underfloor heating.




Up the gorge behind the Blue Lake are located Cherek tunnels and a section of the old road. Starting at a small waterfall, a narrow path winds along a 150-meter cliff. At the corners, a bewitching view of the Balkar valley and snow-capped peaks opens up. And if you drive a few more kilometers, you will find yourself in the village of Upper Balkaria. Behind the village there is a suspension bridge that leads to the old settlement, which was destroyed during the Stalinist resettlement of the Balkars. The foundations of houses and walls that form the winding streets of the ancient mountain village have been preserved. Very beautiful tower Abai-Kala around which apricot trees grow. A couple of kilometers to the left of Abay-Kala, a real watchtower has been preserved. It stands on a ten-meter solid stone and is impregnable without climbing equipment.




Approximately 15 km. from the Blue Lake are hot mineral spring Aushiger, discovered in the 1950s during an expedition to search for oil and which flows from a depth of about 4000 meters ... The origin of the word "Aushiger" is interesting. According to philologists, it clearly indicates that the Kabardians once professed Christianity, since this toponym is translated as "Saint George". Some scholars believe that this toponym should be translated “Jesus the Greek”, since the word “dzher” (ger) means “Greek” in Kabardian, because Christianity came to Kabarda from Byzantium

Legends of Blue Lake
Like most lakes, Blue Lake is reputed to be bottomless among the locals. There are a lot of stories among the people about people and animals that fell into the lake and surfaced almost in the Caspian Sea. Of course, at the bottom of the lake rests the cavalry of either Tamerlane or Alexander the Great in full battle dress, naturally decorated with gold, silver and precious stones (maybe even both at once). Deposits of German and Romanian military equipment abandoned during the retreat are also stored there. And at the beginning of the thaw, a bronze statue of Stalin allegedly flew to the bottom. Well, in modern times, samples of modern wheeled vehicles are regularly sent to the bottom. So at the bottom of the lake there is a museum covered with legends, waiting for its visitors. (I’ll tell you a secret about a real fact. In the 30s a port wine truck fell into the lake. The cost of even one bottle is now very high)

Castles of damnation
It was at the end of the summer of 2003. After another dive, our friend, Tolya Ivanov, got out with an unusual find, which, however, at first they didn’t pay much attention to. It was a bunch of ordinary cheap locks. He found them at a shallow depth, on a stone ledge. And not far away, on a nearby ledge, lay a bunch of keys that seemed to fit the locks. Both the locks and the keys did not have time to turn black and oxidize under water, apparently they lay here quite recently. The find was also unusual in that in all the locks, pieces of paper were sticking out of the holes into which the key was inserted.

The scraps of paper turned out to be scraps of a photograph torn to pieces. The photo showed a young man, and on the back of it something was written in Arabic script. From this already breathed some kind of devilry. Tolya told about the find to one of the local residents. The man took this very seriously and asked to see a torn photograph. He easily recognized her as one of the neighbor's boys. This guy recently got married and moved to the city, but after the wedding he was haunted by continuous failures: illness, accident, loss of valuables, and the like.

The locks that Tolya found were a curse placed on this guy. There is a local custom. If you want to “annoy” someone very much, you need to go to the local black sorcerer with a photograph of your enemy, and he will write a curse in Arabic on the back of the picture. And then you need to tear the photo into small pieces, insert each of them into the keyhole of the newly purchased and previously locked lock, tie all the locks with the fragments of the photo into one bunch, and the keys to them into another, and hide it all somewhere or throw it away so that no one can find them. From that moment on, the life of the damned and his loved ones turns into hell and can lead the unfortunate to an untimely death. If the doomed poor fellow manages to find the cursed locks with his dismembered portrait and the keys to them, and then open the malicious locks with the keys, he will be saved. The spell will lose its power.

The hero of our story had a familiar girl in the city who liked him. And she had certain views on him. Upon learning that the object of her love was marrying another, an angry mountain woman decided to take revenge on the offender. Shortly before the wedding, she was seen several times on the observation deck of Blue Lake.

Our story ended happily. Peace and tranquility reigned in the family of the newlyweds. And the girl who threw the castles into the lake was never seen again. They say she left the republic forever.
On the ledges lies every valuable shmurdyak:

That's it interesting lake. And the water is really blue.

Anyone can come to this lake and dive.
You just need to take a few diving courses.

Today (December 6th, 2015) we went to the Blue Lakes (Kabardino-Balkaria). I've been downstairs a couple of times before. But I realized the moment of mystery and mystery of this lake only today.. It may be the deepest karst lake in the world. depth ... and many other important things .. and in general, it seems that there are more mysteries in it than clues ...

Today I happened to take a walk around the neighborhood around them. On the road above upper lake. In search of a dry lake. Just now, while driving, along the way, I found out that there is a huge funnel here, from where the water left. This is one of the lakes, the fourth. Like vaguely-approximately known way. Like, you have to walk all day and all that. Mystery - bribed. Somewhere to the end, and then through the forest along the path. There was really nothing to catch the card. And that means - cheers-campaign! As far as the car was able to reach, it reached, and then with its feet - as far as the feet could and desired to reach. At the end of the plateau, not far from the headwaters of the Zhemtala River, there was a turn back. Route track

In the forest - red viburnum berries.
If you stop - complete silence and tranquility. The white slopes are combed with trees. Warm, the closer, the farther - the colder. It's great to watch how it fades into blue in space and gradually blends with the sky. It's great to watch along the way how nearby branches, or trees, cut distant branches and trees. How horses are scattered in the distance, dots on white. Black-and-reddish lambs and white lambs come round the turn into the snow, and nibble at the sparse December vegetation in the interstices of the snow. Somewhere two cows were lost, someone went and looked for them in the "field". On a distant plateau, a shepherd on a farm offered to make a fire, tea-mai, but we had to return until dark. Although, of course, that special reality that is called “tea-mai”, “marmotoes”, etc. deserves the most frantic immersion in it, and no less attention than all these mountains ... (coffee-mofe, gopher-muslik ... here with milk and pasta - it's a little more difficult to weave a thread)
























Zhemtala, Zaragizh, Aushiger, Urvan and Nalchik view from the plateau at the head of the river. Zhemtala


The sun began to be covered with clouds and the tops of nearby mountains. It was great highlighting the low clouds that flew in and began to show the space. It seems to be starting to get cold, the height here is about 1150 m, but still it's winter, sort of. But here, it still feels easier than in the Nalchik region, plus but wet now.










On the way to the car, the guys on the "field" also returned, drove past. They never found two cows. After descending to the main road, to the asphalt, I still wanted to stop by for five minutes to stand and look at the Blue Lake. Last year I came here on a bicycle from Nalchik, and there were nuts. Hazelnut. I looked. Found one nut. When the day is light and bright, the bottom is visible. But when it is already such an evening, it is not visible, but the lake turns into a perfect mirror. Previously, I somehow did not have time to feel the moment. Heard something about the unexplored. And then - imbued with the greatness of the moment. An unknown moment. The unknown, on the shore of which I now stand.


A person (the same me, for example) opening a laptop today, or receiving any answer on the Internet, practically does not allow the thought that something may be incomprehensible and unknown. Yes, some distant corners of space and all that. But this is how everything seems to be simple and understandable and studied (although often he studied only a certain list of familiar operations, actions and thoughts familiar to him). And here. You are standing on the shore of the lake. It is so small, if you look at the size of the mirror - 235 x 130 meters. And the depth... It is only known for certain that it is not less than 258 meters. What's at the bottom - no one knows. And where is it, this is the bottom. This is a karst lake, everything is not easy here with the bottom. It is a mine with sheer walls, formed due to karst processes - the destruction of rock by water. Even with what is known about it, it is the second deepest karst lake in the world. Nothing flows into the lake (terrestrial, in the sense). But everything flows out. Every day, about 70 million liters of water (7 million buckets) come out of it through the channel. It has nothing to do with the season. This is a constant value. The water temperature of the lake is the same throughout the year - about 9 degrees. It doesn't freeze. There are no fish here. Water is slightly mineralized. Transparency - exceptional - about 30 meters. Where the water enters the lake is unknown. It is only clear that from somewhere below, under pressure. The water level may fluctuate throughout the day. There are ideas that somewhere down there, the devil knows where, there is a cave (caves) where the inflow comes from. The influx occurs in any way - 70 million liters per day, at least. 0.8 cubic meters per second (lower karst floor, rich in water, and all that). There is also an idea that the shaft can go somewhere to the side, forming an inflection, and this can significantly increase the depth of the lake.


Tserik-Kol or Cherek-Kol. So it is called in Balkar. The lake is located right next to the road to Upper Balkaria, just a few meters from the asphalt. But even before the days of asphalt, it was kind of like a pretty walkable path. According to legend, many ambitious guys from Macedonian to Tamerlane could appear here. According to legend, some artifacts of those events can rest at the bottom. If you follow the logic, then this is quite legitimate. From time to time, divers find something on the little things, on the shelves and at the mouth of the lake (which is much wider than the mine itself). It is considered a reliable fact that in the 30s a truck with port wine fell into the lake. (However, I noticed that there are often a lot of "reliable facts" that are not actually documented anywhere, or it is impossible to find some weighty evidence of this). The lake is considered among the karst lakes the second deepest in the world, second only to Lake Cverno in Croatia. However, on the same Wikipedia in the Karst Lakes category it is not at all. And in some descriptions of such a device of the planet as "Karst Lakes" you will not find a word about it. But the same Wikipedia writes that Jacques Yves Cousteau was here and explored (it seems that this is another legend). There is a depth figure of 360 m (link to a very dubious source). This figure is a champion figure. Recently here at one holiday, when it came to the area of ​​Crimea, that he, they say, is twice the size of Kabardino-Balkaria in terms of area, heard a mini-dialogue:

Let's take a look at Wikipedia!
Yes, I do not believe these Wikipedias.

I increasingly come to the conclusion that you can only trust your eyes, ears and other body devices. The exception may be those who are attached to you. Literally, a rope.

At first I thought that they were unfair, these misunderstandings, and then I came to the conclusion that the lack of knowledge is great. This is potential .. As for the depth, by the way, many karst lakes (the same in Croatia, for example) experience quite strong fluctuations in the water level due to various underground or atmospheric processes, calculated in meters and tens of meters. Here, on the Blue Lake, the fluctuations are very weak. They exist, because the inflow processes are constantly going on, and nothing on earth is stable, but the outflow still regulates the professionalism of the lake.

I don't know... it seems like most people are more comfortable living when everything is predictable. securely. predetermined. when the path is known, when everything is clear.. when everything is categorized.. named.. voiced.. RATED...approved/not approved...put on the shelf...medal hung..curses hung...

But it all seems silly to me...

Here you are standing, and only 250 meters down - nothing is clear. 250 meters, you can run them in just half a minute. You can also rappel quite cheerfully. And here is the lake. And what is there at the bottom, where it is, how it is - IS NOT KNOWN ...

And all around is full of life. here - hychins, there - they sell knitted things. On the shore - a diving center. By the way, yes, in 2012, the Englishman Martin Robson plunged to a depth of 200 m, as I understand it - this is a record for this lake, no one got lower here. He wanted to find a cave from which water comes here, and in general, to figure out what it thinks down there. He spent about 9 hours underwater. And all this almost ended for him with the cessation of life processes. One member of that expedition, Andrei Rodionov, who acted as an operator, died.

Deep sea vehicle? (Do they exist? Has anyone seen them not on TV?) Probably expensive, pathetic, and no one really needs it. Although - "What are you talking about, we are constantly studying everything here and there!". Or maybe such a thing, like a quadcopter, for a gouproshka, only underwater (I wonder if a quadcopter can do it under water? I found material that someone tried to turn it into a submarine)))

The blue lake system is four lakes. In any case, it is customary to consider them as something unified. Until this moment, I did not go on the road to the upper ones. And I had little idea what was there. Rumor has it that they are all connected underground. However, it seems that at least the upper one is more of an atmospheric origin than a harsh underground one. One of the four lakes is dry. Kol-Kechkhen. Water left it, leaving a small lake five meters deep at the bottom. This happens with karst lakes - the water in the funnel is kept due to the sediment accumulated at the bottom, above the main underground aquifer. In the case of tectonic troubles, the integrity of the shield deteriorates and the water leaves. As apparently happened in this case (according to rumors in 1931). In general, they are also called "failure" - water can leave, then after some time it can again fill the funnel, due to the same processes of formation of a sedimentary shield. Funnel Kol-Kechkhen - similar to the funnel of the lower lake - a karst mine, 177 m deep with sheer walls. But I later read this, and at that time the purpose of our trip was to find this lake, I heard about it for the first time, but it seems that somewhere you need to get to the end of the road and follow the path through the forest.

In general, when we asked the shepherds, on a distant plateau, about such a phenomenon as a dried-up karst lake, they said that there was no such thing here.

When I returned to the city and looked at the map, it turned out that we had gone too far in the wrong direction. And it is very close to the general location of the rest of the lakes. On the Internet - only a couple of photos are not very good. View from above. And one good

For fifty dives, they tested the unique equipment and came close to creating a three-dimensional model of the reservoir. Depth of almost a quarter of a kilometer - it is fraught with many mysteries.

The mini-submarine dives into the Blue Lake - one of the deepest karst lakes in the world - 258 meters.

The lake was surveyed for the first time in the 1920s, then in the 1980s, but then there was no question of using such deep-sea submersibles.

“I did not dare to dream of such an opportunity, when, in the most comfortable conditions and without any preparation, we can dive to the bottom of the lake and examine it. It makes it much easier for us to further interpret the results that we will get,” says Nikolai Maksimovich, geologist, Ph.D.

To study the lake, two more mini-submarines are used, with the help of which specialists from the Underwater Research Center of the Russian Geographical Society take soil and rock samples from the very bottom.

“The fact that we see this smooth surface is just a part of the total volume of the lake, since it has the shape of a bottle or a jug, that is, a rather narrow neck, after which it expands. We would gasp if we saw the entrance to a cave, a tunnel, or an entrance to some neighboring hall, ”says Sergey Fokin, executive director of the Underwater Research Center of the Russian Geographical Society, head of the manned submersibles group.

According to experts, it is underground caves water flows into the lake. After all, there are no tributaries on the surface, but the river flows out of the lake. At the same time, the level of the reservoir does not change in any way. With the help of special measurements, it was possible to find out what the water consumption is.

“The depth and width here is such that 77,000 cubic meters of water flows here every day, it must come from somewhere,” says Artem Demenev, geologist, junior researcher at the Natural Science Institute of the Perm State National Research University.

Another goal of scientists is to establish exactly what the bottom of the lake looks like. And this small robot, using sound, can explore any areas under water that are inaccessible even to mini-submarines.

These pictures were taken with an underwater vehicle. Every five meters as you dive, the sonar sends out a signal that bounces off the walls of the lake. Here they are shown in separate colors. In the future, these images will be used to create a three-dimensional underwater map.

If underwater vehicles operate at great depths, then divers study the lake at a depth of no more than 120 meters. In addition to research, divers are testing new underwater equipment that records all diving parameters.

“Very stable conditions, it’s like an ideal training base, good visibility, again, stable temperature, no current, no waves, very convenient entry and exit from the water,” said Sumbat Alexandrov, head of the diving group.

Why does the lake have a constant temperature all year round - nine degrees above zero? Or where does the hydrogen sulfide come from? These are questions the expedition has yet to answer. It will last a month in total.

The mystery of the Blue Lake in Kabardino-Balkaria - one of the deepest in Europe - has remained unsolved.

There are 8 million karst lakes in the world. Blue Lake is the deepest. Accurate data on the depth of the lake does not exist, and unmanned underwater vehicles were able to descend only to a depth of 365 meters. Scientists understand how it formed and what's down there.

The last time Blue Lake was explored was in the 1920s. It is known that its level can change several times a day. For what reason - scientists still do not know.

The blue lakes of Kabardino-Balkaria are located in the Cherek Gorge. There are 5 lakes in total. All of them have a karst nature of education.

Lower Blue Lake is the most interesting and unique. It is located at around 809 meters above sea level. It has a total water surface area of ​​just over two hectares, and its depth is 386 meters. But there are suggestions that the depth of the lake is much greater, because no one has yet reached its bottom. In terms of its depth, this lake ranks third in Russia after Teletskoye in Altai and Baikal. The uniqueness of the lake also lies in the fact that not a single river flows into it, and about 70 million liters of water flows out per day.

Tserik-Kel - that's what this lake is called locals, which in translation means like a rotten lake. There is a legend among the local population about the origin of this lake. Once on the territory of Kabardino-Balkaria lived the fearless hero Bataraz, who defeated the evil dragon in a duel. And when the dragon collapsed, a hole formed in the mountains, which was filled with water. The dragon to this day lies at the bottom of this lake and sheds tears, thereby filling the lake with water and an unpleasant odor.

Directly from the water's edge, you can see sheer walls that go into the depths, and from what you see, you get the impression that this is a huge well. Depending on the time of day and weather, the shades of water are constantly changing and have different colors. The water temperature in the lake in winter and summer is the same +9.3, so the lake never freezes.

Upper Blue Lakes are 2 lakes, Eastern and Western. Also, these lakes are called Communicating. A dam has been built between them, and water from the East Lake flows into the West. The East Lake is larger and deeper than the West. There are fish in these lakes.

The secret lake is located near the Upper Blue Lakes. And it is named so because it is located in a deep karst funnel, overgrown with a dense beech forest.

A dry lake, or it is also called the missing one, was formed in a large karst failure with sheer walls reaching a depth of up to 180 meters. Previously, this failure was completely filled with water, but as a result of the shuddering of the mountains, the lake disappeared and remained only at the bottom of the canyon.

Many myths and legends are associated with these amazingly beautiful places.

Location

The blue lakes of the KBR are located in the unique Cherek Gorge, located on the territory of the region of the same name. It is considered the most densely populated in Kabardino-Balkaria, and it also has a large area. Mostly mountains are located here: five of the seven peaks of the Caucasus, the height of which reaches 5 km. It is here that the longest European glacier is located. There are in these amazing places and one of the oldest climbing camps"Bezengi", it was in it that the foundations of Soviet mountaineering were laid.

natural monument

The blue lakes of the KBR are considered unique Chirik-Kol - the second in the world in terms of the depth of the location of the karst source. It is a karst aquifer, which has sheer walls. The maximum width on the surface of the lake is 130 meters, the length is 235 meters. There is an extension in the upper part, so the depth difference is determined from 0 to 40 meters. Chirik-Kol has no tributaries, a small river flows out of it.

Temperature regime

The weather on the Blue Lakes of the KBR is determined by the time of year, but the water temperature is unchanged and is 9 degrees. This lake is absolutely transparent, in good weather visibility is about 30-50 meters.

Research History

For the first time, the Blue Lakes of the KBR were described by the geographer I. Dinnik in his work “Trip to Balkaria in 1887-1890”. The author emphasized the beauty and originality of these unique places, described the climate of the KBR, Blue Lakes.

How to get to this natural monument? This question interests many tourists. At the beginning of the last century, serious geographical research in this region was carried out by I. Shchukin. In the thirties of the last century, he was engaged in the study of the Blue Lakes. It was he who was awarded the Russian Geographical Society for the unique results obtained during the experiments, with a nominal silver medal. He managed to find out that the reservoir of this lake is a deep well, the steep walls of which are lined with layered limestones. Water comes here from below under strong pressure.

In the summer of 1980, the expedition of the Geographical Institute named after A.I. Vakhushti Bagrationi, belonging to the Georgian Academy of Sciences. G. Gigineishvili, Doctor of Geographical Sciences, became the head of the research group. The expedition confirmed the information about the depth of the lake, and during the work, new data on the chemical composition of the water were revealed. It turned out that only algae live in these places, there are no living creatures, and mineral salts in Blue Lake are present in minimal quantities.

Legends of Blue Lake

The history of the appearance of the dive center on the Blue Lake begins in the summer of 1982. In June, Roma Prokhorov, a Moscow student, appeared on the shore of the lake. In addition to a huge number of trunks, he had oxygen tanks, as well as diving equipment.

It was he who later became the champion of the Russian Federation by founding the Blue Lakes camp. KBR is famous all over the world for its dive center founded by Prokhorov. Now the buildings, built with the assistance of the government of Kabardino-Balkaria, have two tiers. The lower one is carved directly into the rock, there is an exit to the descent platform. There are showers, changing rooms, rooms for storing equipment, as well as a pressure chamber.

How to get there

Have you decided to visit the Blue Lakes of the CBD? How to get to these amazing places? First, get to Nalchik. From Moscow, you can get here by rail, as well as by road. The Cherek tunnels are located up the gorge behind the Blue Lake, part of the old road has been preserved. A narrow path to the reservoir begins at a small waterfall and winds along a cliff, the height of which is about one hundred and fifty meters.

A breathtaking view opens on the way to the Blue Lakes. After driving a few kilometers, you can get to the village of Upper Balkaria. The attraction of this locality is a unique suspension bridge leading to the old settlement. It was destroyed during the resettlement of the Balkars by order of Stalin. But the foundations and remains of the walls still survived, looking at them you can imagine the narrow winding streets where the inhabitants of the ancient mountain village once walked. The Abai-Kala tower surrounded by apricot trees is also unique in its beauty. On a solid stone, the height of which is ten meters, to the left of Abai-Kala, there is a watchtower.