The tract Crimean glade. Polyana, Crimea

is an amazing part of the world. Millions of tourists annually come to the peninsula to return to this mysterious and full of charm place. In Crimea, the infrastructure of recreation, both beach and active, is widely developed. Tourists with a variety of interests find in the Crimea a lot of opportunities to spend their holidays in an entertaining and useful way. The peninsula is beautiful at any time of the year, you will not be bored.

Tourists with a variety of interests find in Crimea a lot of opportunities to spend their holidays in an entertaining and useful way - Guide to Crimea

In Russia, many people know the village of Krasnaya Polyana, located near the resort town of Sochi. Today it is a popular holiday destination and will host several winter sports competitions in 2014. Tourists at this time will be welcomed by Villa Uyutnaya in Krasnaya Polyana.

There are also many well-known "Polyany" in Crimea. The most famous, perhaps, on the peninsula is the Yalta Glade of Fairy Tales. This is a museum under open sky, where the characters of fairy tales loved since childhood are collected. The sculptures are made of wood, stone, flowers and other materials.

Visitors to the museum are greeted by heroes from fairy tales about Pinocchio, Mowgli, Snow White, and a dozen other fairy tales. There is also a hotel of the same name on the peninsula, located in a very picturesque place, at the foot of the mountains. The owners of the hotel "Polyana Skazok" have provided all the amenities for vacationers: cozy rooms, bars, billiards, swimming pool, sauna, fitness equipment, the ability to order walking tours, horseback riding.

Glade of fairy tales, Evpatoria

Returning to the theme of fairy tales, Evpatoria, a famous children's resort, has its own meadow with cartoon characters. This year, Evpatoria Polyana was updated, several new characters were added, to the delight of little visitors. "Glade of fairy tales" West coast Crimea was created more than 70 years ago and was then called "Pushkin's Corner". During the war, it was destroyed, the children's corner was restored only in 1954.

There is another famous glade on the South Coast - the Yasnaya Polyana health resort. This resort, the only one on the South Coast, was built specifically for parents with children in the treatment area.

It attracts vacationers not only with unique climatic conditions, but also with a large number of historical sites and monuments. Sanatorium "Yasnaya Polyana" has amazing story. In the 1830s-40s. on the site of the future sanatorium, the Alexandria estate was built, where Alexander Golitsyn, a personal friend of Emperor Alexander I, rested. Later, the estate came into the possession of Countess Panina, whom Chekhov, Bunin, Gorky, Chaliapin and others visited. The castle opened a sanatorium for scientists, and since 1947 the sanatorium has been called Yasnaya Polyana. Today it is a wonderful health resort with a well-developed infrastructure for recreation and treatment.

Tourist recreation center "Krymskaya Polyana" "Krymskaya Polyana" is a tourist base specializing in the provision of services for outdoor activities . It is located in the upper reaches of the Afips River in the Seversky District of the Krasnodar Territory. The unique natural landscape of the base allows vacationers to diversify their leisure time by climbing the Plancke rocks, excursions to the Bystry spring, Red rocks. Cozy two-story houses with rooms with a capacity of 6 and 8 people will gladly accept vacationers. After a day full of events and impressions, guests will be offered to relax and take a steam bath in a real Russian wood-fired sauna, and barbecue lovers will be able to test their culinary skills on the barbecue grills provided to them. Evening gatherings near a huge fire and songs with a guitar are also popular at the base. Places for tent camps are equipped, playgrounds for sporting events (football and volleyball fields) are equipped. 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 staff is working with children. Every year, children from many cities of Russia rest at the camp site in summer camps. Experienced instructors accompany children on hiking trips, help cook food on a fire, teach them to survive in conditions close to extreme. The team spirit, the ability to achieve goals, and managerial skills are instilled in the children. And the stories told by the flickering flame of an evening fire remain in the hearts of young tourists for a long time. Enjoy the magnificence of mountain landscapes, crystal clear air and just relax in the "Crimean glade". Unforgettable impressions are guaranteed for all vacationers! Location and Territory "Krymskaya Polyana" 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 territory of the base is 3.9 hectares. Accommodation Cozy two-storey houses with several rooms with a capacity of 6 and 8 people will gladly receive vacationers. Common room with satellite TV, shared kitchen with stoves and crockery. Meals Cooking - independent in the common kitchen with stoves and a set of dishes; on a brazier or a fire from own products. For groups of 20 people or more, it is possible to prepare food by the base chef according to a customized menu (for an additional fee). Baza Beach is located in the upper reaches of the Afips River. The beach is rocky. Facilities and services - satellite TV, - parking lot, - kitchen with gas stove and set of dishes, refrigerators, - iron, - outdoor shower, - Russian bath. Tours and special offers Weekend rest. Paintball. Corporate rest. Organization of accommodation on the basis of participants of holiday and business events, competitions, hiking trips. Children's tourism. Excursions to the Plancke rocks, to the Bystry spring, to the Red rocks. Additional Information: Animals: Pets are allowed. Documents: Passport. Checkout time: The hour of arrival at the base. Check-in duration: no restrictions. Water supply: water from an artesian well. Nature of functioning: year-round action. Accommodation cost Price level: economical, average May-September: day stay 100 rub. per person, overnight - 200 rubles October-April: 350 rubles. per day per person The price of accommodation includes: Accommodation, use of sports grounds, beach, sports and kitchen equipment, awnings, barbecues, satellite TV. Discounts: Children under 6 years old - free of charge, leader of a group of tourists from 15 people - free of charge. Address: Krasnodar region, Seversky district, 7.5 km from the village Krepostnaya

Length 17-18 km; duration! - 1.5 days; elevation changes 600-640 m.

The route is recommended for people who have minimal experience of weekend hikes with overnight stays in the field. You can get to the shelter by a regular bus to the village of Krepostnoy, and then by passing transport or on foot 10 km towards 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 . mid-seventies in connection with the development of the country's first planned tourist route for high school students "Along the partisan paths of the Kuban." Initially, frame tents were set up here, gradually the territory was equipped, modern two-story cottages grew up, 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, foot-

sick field, sports and tourist equipment, bathhouse, dance club.

From the bonfires, located in the depths of the shelter, into the forest, in a western direction, a path goes up the stream, to the Krymsky pass. Gradually the valley narrows and acquires the character of a gorge. The stream dries up in the summer, but the rest of the year the flow is constant. Goes easily, freely. After about 20 minutes, an increasing steepness begins to be felt. The trail turns to the right bank, then to the left. Often the road is blocked by fallen trees, but the marked planned trail does not allow you 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 south, to the shelter "Partizansky". We, having passed the plot, descend into the valley of the Salt Creek, the direction along the azimuth is 280-285. When descending, you need to find any of the many animal trails, which will lead in 15-20 minutes to the channel of the Salt. In total, from the shelter to Salty 3.5 km, 1 hour 10 minutes - 1 hour 20 minutes of travel. A road runs along the left bank of the stream. It is necessary to cross it and start climbing one of the buttresses stretching to the southern, steep slopes of Sober-Bash. At first, the steepness is quite significant, then the ridge flattens out and turns from southwest to west. Here you can feel the primordial nature. 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. It is widely distributed in foothill and mountain forest areas, as well as in the subalpine zone up to 2000 m above sea level, in places it forms more thickets. The leaves of yellow rhododendron contain substances of a glycosidic nature, sterols and tannins. The flower petals contain essential oil, which is used in the perfume industry in the production of the highest grades of perfumes. Azalea yellow is a highly poisonous plant, especially flowers and buds. During flowering, it exudes a heady odor that causes a headache.

Through the thicket one can see the hulk of Sober-Bash.

Approximately an hour after the start of the ascent to the buttress at the highest point, we descend from the ridge, descending towards the Duleva slit, to an overgrown plot. From it, after 5 minutes, we go to the "Sober round the world" - the old ring road around the mountain. If we go along it to the south-west, we again find ourselves in the basin of the Salty stream. We're going in the opposite direction. We continue to traverse the eastern slopes of Sober-Bash. There are separate giant specimens of oaks in several girths ...

Not far from the fork, before climbing to the top of Sober-Bash, the round-the-world trip leads, after 25-30 minutes, to a 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 trails. But we don't have a choice. Very handy will be alpenstocks (a long stick with a pointed tip). The steepness of the trail increases to 30-35. You need to go in a dense group, with an interval between participants of 0.5-1 m, without stopping, evenly, at a slow pace. Steps through 200-250 do "minutes" - short stops for rest. Hold the alpenstock in the “cane” position, that is, in one hand, like an ordinary stick.

In a beech-maple forest, 500 m from the summit, there is a spring, one of the sources of the Dulevoy Shchel. In general, there are many such springs on the slopes of Sober-Bash. Some of them are forgotten and abandoned, others (Rimba or Kalina, for example) are used to quench their thirst. We cross the mountain meadow of a flat top. In the sixties and seventies, this peak was a place of pilgrimage for Krasnodar tourists and skiers in winter. Gradually Sober-Bash skiing lost its position, giving the palm to more promising ski slopes - on Mount Lysaya (near the Chilipsi station), Mount Semiglava, the dam of the Krasnodar reservoir.

However, back to our route. Passing two

huge, gently sloping glades, through a small strip of forest we go out to the highest mark. A geodetic point and a bust of V. I. Lenin are installed here.

Much has been written, told, and songs composed about Sober-Bash mountain. We give only the azimuths of the directions to the uplifts opening from the top: Medvezhya Mountains - 300, Ubin-Su - 253, Papai - 243, Pshchada - 230, Big Athena - 170, Baraniy Rog - 145, Crimean Polyana shelter -128, highest point ridge Pshaf - 93. A circular panorama from the highest mark of Sober-Bash does not open. Directions to the northern points can be seen from other open points of the mountain.

In total, 4-5 running hours were spent on the ascent from the shelter, the climb was about 650 m. We return to the "circumnavigation" along the ascent path. If we proceed from the fact that the time spent on the descent, in relation to the time spent on the ascent, with the same distance, is two times less, then we will overcome this path in 25-30 minutes (50 minutes were spent on the ascent - G h Alpenstocks will be needed again. With a feeling of winners in the "Sober round the world" we descend to the place of a large halt - first to the intersection of the path with the Dulevoy slit, and then we need to climb a little (100 m) through the forest to a small hillock. Here is a flat area, a fire pit, neatly folded firewood.

After lunch or a snack, we make 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 Utaennyy, 300 m below the trail. Throughout its 11-meter height there is a giant limestone-sandstone layer. When there is a lot of water, the sound of the waterfall can be heard for half a kilometer. Oak, ash, dogwood grow around. At the lower edge of the ledge there is a well-developed basin. In hot sunny weather, a tired traveler will be happy to refresh himself in its water surface. From the resting place we go back to the shelter, in a shorter way. The reference point is a wide and gently sloping forest ridge, stretching to the east-south-east, to Salt Balka. After 30 minutes we go to the ruined dolmen. It is not described in the literature. It is only known that there were several dozens of dolmens in the Sober-Bash area. Some of them were found by students of the Agricultural Institute headed 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 Northwestern Caucasus are somewhat different. A typical form of a dolmen is a dolmen built of four massive stone slabs and covered with a fifth slab. The slabs are carefully hewn, and grooves are 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 stone mushroom-shaped plug (cork)... Dolmens have long attracted the attention of the local population. Poetic legends and tales were formed about them, which were passed from mouth to mouth, from generation to generation and have survived to this day. According to the 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 their own dwellings. That is why they were subjected to all sorts of hardships of a shelterless life: they got wet in the rain, they froze, in winter they were covered with snow. The giants took pity and decided to build houses for the dwarfs. The giants were so strong that each of them could cut down a huge stone slab and, having put it on their shoulders, bring it to the place of construction. From four such slabs, folded in the form of a square box, a house was made up, covered from above by a fifth slab. Instead of two rails ... in the front plate, the giants punched round holes through which the dwarfs rode on hares. And that is why the Adygs called the dolmens "spyuna", which means dwarf houses. The tribe of dwarfs has long since died out, and there are no longer giants, but the houses of dwarfs still stand. Such is the legend.

The Russian population ... called the dolmens "heroic huts." In fact, these are burial structures, a kind of crypts, related mainly to the second half of the 3rd-2nd millennium BC, i.e. having 3-, 4-, 5-thousand years ago. They

they are found singly, in small groups or form significant clusters ... As a rule, dolmens are always located on the surface, but there are also dug into the ground ... "!

"Our" dolmen is also tiled. In all likelihood, it was dug halfway into the ground and was destroyed in the postwar period. Only one slab (2X2 m) turned out to be intact. The second is split near the inlet. The diameter of the hole is 25-30 cm. The facade of the dolmen was turned to the south, towards the lowering of the ridge. Traces of human processing are visible on the slabs.

Continuing the route, we descend from the ridge to the Dulevoy slit watercourse. Adhering to the azimuth of 120-130, after 1.5-2 km we get to the already familiar Salt stream. There are two ways to return from it. The first - along the original path through the Krymsky pass. The second option is somewhat longer, but more interesting. From the fork of the markings, go along the upper left path: Having crossed the jumper, we traverse the southern slopes of a height of 341 m. A 20-minute walk to the shelter opens up a good panorama of the Afipsa valley and the surrounding uplifts - the Korabelny, Fortress, Krasny, Shirokiy ridges. In the distance to the south, in a bluish haze, one can see the regular cone of Mount Bolshoy 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 a small mountain river Markur flows. This village is located on the territory that was once the powerful principality of Theodoro, with its capital in Mangup-Kale - a very ancient cave city, the remains of which can still be seen in the vicinity of Polyana. Although people chose this impregnable and rich in fresh water place back in the 8th century, they mastered the local lands and were engaged in pottery.

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How to get there

It is most convenient to get to Mount Sadyk-Kaya, on which Mangup is located, from Bakhchisarai. If you go by taxi or private car, the journey will take you no more than half an hour - or a little longer by a regular bus that runs through the 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 Khmelnitskoye and further - already following the signs. But in any tourist office you will probably be offered a specialized tour.

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History and sights of Polyana

The Principality of Theodoro, and originally it had the name Doro, was founded in the 13th century by the Greeks who settled in the Crimea, who popularized 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 a lot both 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 was named Theodoro. But its history was still short-lived, already at the end of the 15th century, the rule of the Ottoman Empire was established here, and the Christian population was gradually eradicated.

Today, the once majestic principality is evidenced by the ruins of the family castle of one of the nobles and the remains of an ancient Orthodox church with a small church cemetery.

Unfortunately, at the dawn of the birth of communism, these priceless monuments were not given much importance and were literally taken away 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 found here.

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Mangup-Kale

In general, it can be argued that the former capital of Theodoro - Mangup-Kale - still survived quite well, so by its ruins one can even judge its former power. From three sides it is protected by a high steep, and from that absolutely impregnable Sadyk-Kaya mountain, the city is also surrounded by a powerful fortress wall, which is simply impossible to overcome. Here, grottoes and deep caves, which were created by nature itself, were skillfully improved by people and equipped in such a way that, in the event of a long deposition, they would not experience either need or inconvenience. This was especially true of drinking water supplies - in addition to two sufficiently full-flowing mountain streams, a deep well with spring water was also dug to quench the thirst of urban residents.

Mangup-Kale cave city

When the Turks took over the Crimea, they turned the cave city into a real dungeon for captives, which is confirmed by the bricked windows of the buildings. But Mangup was not a purely defensive structure, judging by the remains of round castle walls, intricate details of decor, local princes built their palaces here with a special scope and chic.

Today, Mangup-Kale is invariably included in the list of the most popular and frequently visited places in the tourist and excursion routes in the mountainous Crimea and is cultural heritage Crimean Autonomous Republic.

Modern Polyana is located at the foot of Sadyk-Kaya, and from here, as a rule, the ascent to the cave city begins. All conditions have been created for tourists here - there are shops, several summer cafes, where you can rest and satisfy your hunger without any problems, having tasted the dishes of the Crimean Tatar cuisine.

• Where to stay: Big Yalta is a storehouse of resorts beloved since Soviet times: vacationers are waiting for the sanatoriums of cozy Alupka and ancient Gurzuf, picturesque Koreiz and bohemian Livadia, charming Miskhor and pompous Foros, as well as the beautiful Yalta, sung by poets and artists. It makes sense for fans of silence to stay in chamber Gaspra, Katsiveli, Nikita or Polyana. The Swallow's Nest will enchant with delightful views, Massandra - with a "cheerful component", and Simeiz - with bizarre rocks. Something special you can look for among others