Mezmay (, ) is a

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Apsheronsky District Apsheronsky District () is an administrative district (raion), one of the thirty-eight in Krasnodar Krai, Russia.Reference Information #20-2969/11-03 As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Apsheronsky Municipal District.Law #747-KZ It i ...

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, located in the valley of the

Kurdzhips River The Kurdzhips (), located in the Caucasus Mountains, is a river in the Apsheronsky District of Krasnodar region, Russia. It is a left tributary of the Belaya near Maykop. It is long, and has a drainage basin of . The river is a venue for wildern ...

near its

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with the

Mezmay River Mezmay (, ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, settlement in Apsheronsky District of Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located in the valley of the Kurdzhips River near its confluence (geography), confluence with the Mezmay River, south-east of ...

, south-east of

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. Its population is less than a thousand inhabitants. It is a popular mountain resort. The village was linked with Apsheronsk by branch line of the Apsheronsk narrow-gauge railway, yet, in 2010 this branch was almost completely dismantled, except length part between Mezmay and village Guamka. This remaining railway was from 2011 to 2017 interrupted due to a

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Name

The name Mezmay is formed of the two Circassian words Mez (forest) and Mye (wild apple), so Mezmay translated from Circassian as "wild apples forest."

Landmarks

Mezmay is a popular tourist site with a lot of natural attractions: (

waterfall A waterfall is any point in a river or stream where water flows over a vertical drop or a series of steep drops. Waterfalls also occur where meltwater drops over the edge of a tabular iceberg or ice shelf. Waterfalls can be formed in seve ...

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canyon A canyon (; archaic British English spelling: ''cañon''), gorge or chasm, is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosive activity of a river over geologic time scales. Rivers have a natural tendency t ...

s, etc.), the Clay Roman necropolis (Mezmayskoe burial) on the north-western outskirts of the village and the

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of the

Kuban State University The Kuban State University (, abbreviated as KubSU or KubGU, ) is a university in Krasnodar, in the Kuban area of southern Russia. It was founded on September 19, 1920, and since then it has trained over 100,000 specialists, including over 1,0 ...

. There is also Mezmaiskaya cave, where, in 1993, was found perfectly preserved skeleton of a

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baby from which DNA was extracted. Причина вымирания неандертальцев – вулканическая зима?

Gallery

Mezmay, Krasnodar Krai.jpg, Cliffs of Guam Ridge in the surroundings of Mezmay Fir and beech forest in Kurdzhips Canyon, Mezmay, Russia.jpg, Kurdzhips River Canyon near Mezmay Guam Canyon, Apsheronsk mountain railway, Russia.jpg, Apsheronsk mountain railway near Mezmay Вид на посёлок Мезмай.jpg, Mezmai surroundings

References

External links

Rural localities in Krasnodar Krai {{KrasnodarKrai-geo-stub