The Baydar or Baydari
valley sprawls for 16 km north-east in the
Balaklava Raion
Balaklava District ( uk, Балаклавський район; russian: Балаклавский район) is an administrative raion ( district) of the city of Sevastopol.
The raion was created in 1930 as part of the Crimean ASSR with its ...
of
Sevastopol,
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 ...
. 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 coast. Most of the valley is protected as a national ''
zakaznik''.
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Landforms of Sevastopol
River valleys of Europe
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