The Markotkh is a low 90 km-long
mountain range
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in the extreme northwest of the
Greater Caucasus
The Greater Caucasus, ''Didi K’avk’asioni''; is the major mountain range of the Caucasus Mountains. It stretches for about from west-northwest to east-southeast, from the Taman Peninsula of the Black Sea to the Absheron Peninsula of t ...
that, running parallel to the
Black Sea
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coastline, encircles the
Tsemes Bay
The Tsemes Bay (also ''Tsemess Bay'' and ''Novorossiysk Bay''; Russian: Цемесская бухта, ''Tsemesskaya bukhta'') is an ice-free bay located on the north-eastern coast of the Black Sea, in Krasnodar Krai of Russia. It takes its name ...
and the
Gelendzhik Bay
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.
Its ''Markotkh'' name translates from the
Adyghe language
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as "
blackberry
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". The highest point is Mount Ploskaya which has an elevation of . The main Caucasus Range lies immediately to the north.
Mountain ranges of the Caucasus
Mountain ranges of Russia
Mountains of Krasnodar Krai
Novorossiysk
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