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Yayla Mountains
The Crimean Mountains ( uk, Кримські гори, translit. ''Krymski hory''; russian: Крымские горы, translit. ''Krymskie gory''; crh, Qırım dağları) are a range of mountains running parallel to the south-eastern coast of Crimea, between about from the sea. Toward the west, the mountains drop steeply to the Black Sea, and to the east, they change slowly into a steppe landscape. The Crimean Mountains consist of three subranges. The highest is the Main range. The Main range is subdivided into several masses, known as yaylas or mountain plateaus (''Yayla'' is Crimean Tatar for "Alpine Meadow"). They are: * Baydar Yayla * Ay-Petri Yayla * Yalta Yayla * Nikita Yayla * Hurzuf Yayla * Babugan Yayla * Chatyr-Dag Yayla * Dologorukovskaya (Subatkan) Yayla * Demirji Yayla * Karabi Yayla Highest peaks The Crimea's highest peak is the Roman-Kosh (; , crh, Roman Qoş) on the Babugan Yayla at . Other important peaks over 1,200 metres include: * Demir-Kapu ( uk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman-Kosh
Roman-Kosh (, russian: Роман-Кош, uk, Роман-Кош, sep=comma, same=yes) is the highest peak of the Crimean Mountains. See also * List of European ultra prominent peaks This is a list of all the mountains in Europe with ultra-prominent peaks with topographic prominence greater than . The column "Col" denotes the highest elevation to which one must descend from a peak in order to reach peaks with higher elevation ... References Sources * Енциклопедія українознавства. У 10-х томах. / Головний редактор Володимир Кубійович. — Париж; Нью-Йорк: Молоде життя, 1954–1989. Crimean Mountains One-thousanders of Ukraine {{Crimea-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perevalne
Perevalne ( uk, Перевальне; russian: Перевальное ( Perevalnoye); crh, Anğara, Ангъара) (until 1945, Angara) is a village in Crimea, a disputed territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine but administered by Russia as the Republic of Crimea. The village of Perevalne is administered by the Dobre Village Council, which in turn is subordinate to Crimea's Simferopol Raion (district) authorities. According to the 2001 Ukrainian census, its population was 3,660. The village is located in the middle of the Crimean Mountains, next to the Chatyr-Dag massif. The Simferopol— Alushta— Yalta highway runs through the village, as well as the Crimean Trolleybus Crimean Trolleybus Line (russian: Крымский троллейбус, Krymskiy trolleybus; uk, Кримський тролейбус, Kryms’kyi troleibus; crh, Qırım trolleybusı) in Crimea is the longest trolleybus line in the world.Mu ... line, which has a stop i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uchan-su (waterfall)
Uchan-su ( uk, Учан-Су, russian: Уча́н-Су crh, Uçan Suv), is a waterfall on the river Uchan-su on the southern slopes of the Crimean Mountains in Crimea Crimea, crh, Къырым, Qırım, grc, Κιμμερία / Ταυρική, translit=Kimmería / Taurikḗ ( ) is a peninsula in Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, that has been occupied by Russia since 2014. It has a p .... The name translates from the Crimean Tatar language for ''flying water''. Uchan-su, the highest waterfall in Crimea, is a popular tourist attraction located 7 km from the city of Yalta halfway to Ai-Petri Mountain. The waterfall is high at an altitude of and is most powerful during the spring when it is fed by snow melt in the mountains. The water originates from one of the Ai-Petri tops which falls onto the shallow water . References Waterfalls of Crimea {{Crimea-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uchan-su (river)
Uchan-su ( uk, Учан-Су, russian: Уча́н-Су or Водопадная Vodopadnaya, crh, Uçan Suv), is a river that flows in the South Coast of Crimea. The name translates from the Crimean Tatar language for '' 'swift water' ''. The river runs into the Black Sea in the center city of Yalta. It begins at the foot of Ai-Petri, flows upstream the gorge and then at a distance of from the source forms the Uchan-su waterfall, located at an altitude of and consists of several levels (the height of the waterfall is ). The river water is used extensively for water supply and irrigation. See also * Waterfalls of Ukraine Ukraine has diverse geographic features, including several waterfalls. A vast number of rivers run through the mountain ranges. The snow melt from the mountains feeding the rivers and sudden drops in elevation create many opportunities for wate ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Uchan-Su (River) Rivers of Crimea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salhir River
The Salhyr or Salgir ( Cyrillic: Салгир; ) is the longest river of the Crimean Peninsula. Its length is 204 km, and its drainage basin is 3,750 km². The average discharge of the water is 2 m³/s. UKRTravel. Accessed April 17, 2012. It is formed in the Chatyr-Dag mountains southeast of Simferopol, passes that town and flows north and increasingly east to reach the Syvash of the Azov Sea. Along the way, the river passes through the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chernaya River (Crimea)
The Chorna, Chyornaya or Chorhun (, ''Chorna'', , ''Chyornaya'', ), which translates from the Ukrainian and Russian as "Black River", is a small river in southern Crimea. It is 34.5 km long. The Chorna River begins in the Baydar Valley northeast of the small town of Rodnikivs'ke (44° 28' N 33° 51' EG), just west of which it flows into a reservoir. From there it continues in a westerly direction to the town of Inkerman (Belokamensk) where it enters the Bay of Sevastopol, on the southwest coast of the Crimean peninsula. Inkerman was a key location during the Crimean War of 1853–1856 and the Chorna lends its name to the Battle of Chornaya River The Battle of the Chernaya (also Tchernaïa; Russian: Сражение у Черной речки, Сражение у реки Черной, literally: Battle of the Black River) was a battle by the Chyornaya River fought during the Crime ... of 1855. {{Rivers of Ukraine Rivers of Crimea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alma River (Crimea)
The Alma (; , ) is a small river in Crimea that flows from the Crimean Mountains in a broadly west-north-west direction to the Black Sea. Its mouth lies just south of , halfway between Yevpatoria and Sevastopol. ''Alma'' is the Crimean Tatar word for an "apple". Geography The Alma, formed by the confluence of the Sary-su, the Savlykh-su and the Babuganka (Babuğan Yayla) rivers, flows mostly through the mountains. The Alminskoye and Partizanskoye storage reservoirs are located along its course. History During the Crimean War of 1853–1856, in the Battle of the Alma near the lower reaches of the Alma river, the allied British, French, and Ottoman armies defeated the Russians , native_name_lang = ru , image = , caption = , population = , popplace = 118 million Russians in the Russian Federation (2002 '' Winkler Prins'' estimate) , region1 = , pop1 ... under Prince Aleksandr Sergeevich Menshikov on 20 S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sevastopol
Sevastopol (; uk, Севасто́поль, Sevastópolʹ, ; gkm, Σεβαστούπολις, Sevastoúpolis, ; crh, Акъя́р, Aqyár, ), sometimes written Sebastopol, is the largest city in Crimea, and a major port on the Black Sea. Due to its strategic location and the navigability of the city's harbours, Sevastopol has been an important port and naval base throughout its history. Since the city's founding in 1783 it has been a major base for Russia's Black Sea Fleet, and it was previously a closed city during the Cold War. The total administrative area is and includes a significant amount of rural land. The urban population, largely concentrated around Sevastopol Bay, is 479,394, and the total population is 547,820. Sevastopol, along with the rest of Crimea, is internationally recognised as part of Ukraine, and under the Ukrainian legal framework, it is administratively one of two cities with special status (the other being Kyiv). However, it has been occupi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Aya
Cape Aya (Ukrainian: Мис Айя, Russian: Мыс Айя, Crimean Tatar: Ayya) is a rocky promontory jutting out into the Black Sea southeast of Balaklava. This 13-km-long offspur of the Crimean Mountains separates Laspi Bay (to the east) from Balaklava Bay (to the west). The name of the cape derives from “holy one" in Greek, “Άγια”. The highest point, Kokiya-Kiya (literally "Blue Cliff") is . The headland is full of grottoes; it is protected as a national '' zakaznik''. A storm off Cape Aya is the subject of one of Aivazovsky Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (russian: link=no, Иван Константинович Айвазовский; 29 July 18172 May 1900) was a Russian Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art. Baptized a ...'s paintings. A Soviet guided missile system was located on Cape Aya. Viktor Yanukovych, the former President of Ukraine, ordered the construction of a luxurious private residence on Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laspi Pass
The Laspi Pass (Ласпинский перевал) (350m) is the highest point of the Sevastopol- Yalta (South Coast) highway in the Crimea along the former route H19 renamed as 67K-1. It is located where the route enters the Yalta wooden mountain reserve near village of Tylove. The mountain pass offers views of Cape Aya and Laspi Bay of the Black Sea, situated just 700 meters to the south. It is dominated by a cliff named after Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovsky Nikolai Georgievich Mikhailovsky (Russian: Никола́й Гео́ргиевич Михайло́вский, ) was a Russian writer and essayist, locating engineer and railroad constructor. As a writer, he published under the pseudonym N. Gar ..., a Russian writer who helped build the road. Another attraction is an Orthodox chapel commemorating the bimillennium of Christ's birth. The pass is sometimes confused with the Baydar Gate, a mountain pass seldom used today. See also * Tourist attractions in Crimea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baydar Valley
The Baydar or Baydari valley sprawls for 16 km north-east in the Balaklava Raion of Sevastopol, Crimea. It is the source of the Chernaya River and the location of the Chernaya River Reservoir, Sevastopol's largest body of fresh water. Prehistoric menhir-statues still dot the landscape. A highway from Yalta to Sevastopol traverses the dale. The Baydar Pass connects the valley to the Black Sea The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, Rom ... coast. Most of the valley is protected as a national '' zakaznik''. External links * Landforms of Sevastopol River valleys of Europe {{Crimea-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foros, Crimea
Foros ( uk, Форос; russian: Форо́с, crh, Foros, el, Phàros, Φάρος) is a resort town (an urban-type settlement, legally) in Yalta Municipality of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and incorporated by Russia as the Republic of Crimea. Population: Foros is the southernmost resort in Crimea. The settlement was founded and named by medieval Greek merchants. It was rediscovered in the late 19th century by Alexander Kuznetsov, a Russian "tea king" who had his palace built on the sea shore. It was Kuznetsov who commissioned the town's main landmark, the Resurrection Church. This ornate five-domed architectural extravaganza is sited on a 400-metre cliff overlooking Foros. The Soviet leaders had several state dachas built near Foros. One of these came to international attention during the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt The 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, also known as the August C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
