Dombay (resort village)

Dombai
	Holiday Village
Dombai
	Karach.-balk. Dommay
A country	Russia
Subject of the federation	Karachay-Cherkessia
City district	Karachaevsky
History and Geography
Holiday Village with	1965
Center height	1560-1600 m
Timezone	UTC + 3
Population
Population	↘ 648 people ( 2019 )
Nationalities	Karachais , Russians , Circassians , etc.
Denominations	Muslims , Orthodox
Katoykonim	Dombays
Official language	Abazin , Karachay , Nogai , Circassian , Russian
Digital identifiers
Postcode	369241
OKATO Code	91405553
OKTMO Code

Dombay ( Karach.-balk. Dommay ) ^[4] - a resort village in Karachay-Cherkessia . It is part of the Karachaevsky urban district .

Content

Geography

View of the Dombai glade from the height of the surrounding mountains

Yak in Dombay

Peaks of the Main Caucasian Range (from left to right): Sofruju (3,780.7 m), Tooth Sofruju, Belalakaya (3861 m), Ertsog (3863 m)

Located at an altitude of about 1600 meters, in the intermontane basin ( Dombayskaya Polyana ) at the northern foot of the Main Caucasian Range , at the confluence of the Alibek and Dombay-Ulgen rivers into Amanauz , one of the sources of the Teberda River.

The road is connected with the village of Teberda , Karachaevsky and Cherkessky (a branch from the Military Sukhumi road ). The distance to the administrative center of the republic is about 120 km (by road). The distance to the nearest railway station in the city of Ust-Dzheguta is about 100 km ^[5] .

History

The word "dombai" ( Karach.-Balk. Dommay ) in translation from Karachay means "bison" ^[4] . Once in the Dombay forests, whole herds of Caucasian bison roamed. The emergence of the village is associated with the development of tourism in the region, the beginning of which dates back to the 1920s (although there is evidence that certain tourist groups have been in these places since 1911). In 1921, the first organized tourist base appeared here. Popularization of the resort has been gaining momentum since 1925 - in August of this year, one of the founders of mountaineering in the USSR, Boris Delaunay , climbed Sofrudja peak (south of the current village), after which a systematic survey and description of the surrounding peaks and passes began. In 1926, a tourist route was established along the Military Sukhumi Road (subsequently, the All-Union Tourist Route No. 43 ) ^[6] . According to some reports, since 1940, mountaineering descents and ascents have been carried out in Dombay ^[7] .

Large-scale construction of a sports complex in Dombayskaya Polyana began after the decision of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR No. 10001 dated 02.01.1960 "On the development of recreation, tourism, skiing in the highlands of KChAO ." In 1972 the Dombay hotel was commissioned, in 1976 the Crocus hotel, and by 1984 the Solnechnaya Polyana hotel was reconstructed. In 1936-1961, the alpine camp “Belalakaya” was created and developed (named for the mountain peak to the southwest of the village) ^[7] . In the upper reaches of the Alibek River, the Alibek climbing camp is located - one of the oldest in the Caucasus . The Dombay Waltz by Yuri Vizbor , written on April 19, 1961 in Alibek, became widely known for Dombay ^[8] . The status of an urban-type settlement was assigned in 1965 ^[9] .

Soviet modernism in Dombay

Village Dombay

Moussa-Achitara and Dombay-Ulgen

View of the village from the ski lift in winter

Lift

Baduk Lakes

Along with the construction of hotels and camp sites, cable cars were built - pendulum (commissioned in 1986), 5 phases of construction of single-seat and pair-seat roads to Mount Mussa-Achitara ( Musat-Cheri , completed in the 1960s, by 1971, by 1976, by 1978 and by 1987, respectively). Already in the post-Soviet period, in 2004-2007, three lines of the new cableway were built - one section of the gondola and two sections of the six-chair, which bring skiers to the very top of Mount Mussa-Achitara (about 3200 m) ^[7] .

Population

Population
1970 ^[10]	1979 ^[11]	1989 ^[12]	2002 ^[13]	2010 ^[14]	2012 ^[15]	2013 ^[16]	2014 ^[17]
847	↗ 1730	↘ 1178	↘ 403	↗ 657	↘ 652	↘ 644	↗ 645
2015 ^[18]	2016 ^[19]	2017 ^[20]	2018 ^[21]	2019 ^[2]
↗ 647	↗ 649	↘ 643	↗ 650	↘ 648

National composition

According to the All-Russian Population Censuses of 2002 ^[22] and 2010 ^[23] :

People	Number (2002), people	Share of everything population (2002),%	Number (2010), people	Share of everything population (2010),%
Karachais	230	57.1%	482	73.4%
Russians	90	22.3%	113	17.2%
Circassians	26	6.5%	22	3.3%
other	57	14.1%	40	6.1%
Total	403	100 %	657	100 %

Economics

Economic activity in the village is associated with tourist services: there are numerous restaurants, cafes and hotels. Dombay is a famous Russian winter sports center. The resort has cable cars :

5 queues of single-seat (1st and 2nd phases, transport functions) and pair-seat (3rd, 4th and 5th, maintenance of ski slopes) cable cars;
a pendulum cableway to the slope of Mount Mussa-Achitara, duplicating the 1st and 3rd stages of a chair lift;
a complex of gondola roads and 2 six-seat sections, built in the 2000s and duplicating the old chair road;
the so-called " Yugoslav " pair-seat road, completed by 2000 and partially duplicating the 5th turn of the old road;
a network of towing and towing roads (100-300 meters long) serving small slopes for skiing ^[24] .

In addition, hiking and horseback riding , hang gliding are developed.

Climate

Climate of Dombay
Indicator	Jan	Feb	March	Apr	May	June	July	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Average maximum, ° C	−5	−3	0	3	eight	17	20	24	18	ten	0	−3
Average minimum ° C	−12	−10	−9	−5	0	five	7	12	ten	five	−5	−8
Source: Travel Portal

Attractions

The village is located on the territory of the Teberda Nature Reserve . The main attractions of the region are natural. These are Alibeksky , Sofrudzhinsky , Chuchkhursky falls, Baduksky , Murudzhinsky lakes and others ^[25] .

Gallery

Notes

↑ Map sheet K-37-36 Dombay . Scale: 1: 100,000. State of the terrain for 1987. 1989 Edition
↑ ¹ ² Population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (neopr.) . Date of treatment July 31, 2019.
↑ Postcodes of Karachay-Cherkessia. City Karachaevsk
↑ ¹ ² Suyunchev Kh. I., Urusbiev I. Kh. Russian-Karachay-Balkarian dictionary. About 35,000 words. M .: "Soviet Encyclopedia", 1965. S. 198, 743
↑ According to the Yandex.Maps service.
↑ Resort Dombay
↑ ¹ ² ³ Ski resort Dombay
↑ The story of the creation of the song "Dombai Waltz"
↑ Karachay-Cherkess Republic. Administrative divisions for 2007 // terrus.ru - Russian database
↑ 1970 All-Union Population Census. The number of urban population of the RSFSR, its territorial units, urban settlements and urban areas by gender. (Russian) . Demoscope Weekly. Date of treatment September 25, 2013. Archived on April 28, 2013.
↑ 1979 All-Union Population Census. The number of urban population of the RSFSR, its territorial units, urban settlements and urban areas by gender. (Russian) . Demoscope Weekly. Date of treatment September 25, 2013. Archived on April 28, 2013.
↑ 1989 All-Union Population Census. The urban population (neopr.) . Archived on August 22, 2011.
↑ 2002 All-Russian Population Census. Tom. 1, table 4. The population of Russia, federal districts, constituent entities of the Russian Federation, regions, urban settlements, rural settlements - district centers and rural settlements with a population of 3 thousand or more (neopr.) . Archived February 3, 2012.
↑ The number of permanent population of the KCR territories according to the final data of the 2010 All-Russian Population Census (Neopr.) . Date of treatment October 10, 2014. Archived October 10, 2014.
↑ Population of the Russian Federation by municipalities. Table 35. Estimated resident population as of January 1, 2012 (neopr.) . Date of treatment May 31, 2014. Archived May 31, 2014.
↑ The population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2013. - M.: Federal State Statistics Service of Rosstat, 2013. - 528 p. (Table 33. The population of urban districts, municipalities, urban and rural settlements, urban settlements, rural settlements) (neopr.) . Date of treatment November 16, 2013. Archived November 16, 2013.
↑ Table 33. The population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2014 (neopr.) . Date of treatment August 2, 2014. Archived on August 2, 2014.
↑ The population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2015 (neopr.) . Date of treatment August 6, 2015. Archived on August 6, 2015.
↑ Population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2016
↑ The population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2017 (neopr.) (July 31, 2017). Date of treatment July 31, 2017. Archived July 31, 2017.
↑ The population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2018 (neopr.) . Date of treatment July 25, 2018. Archived July 26, 2018.
↑ 2002 All-Russian Census Data: Table 02c. M .: Federal State Statistics Service, 2004. ( 2002zip , see note )
↑ Database of the 2010 All-Russian Population Census (Neopr.) .
↑ Dombay cable cars
↑ Sights of Dombai

[1] Map sheet K-37-36 Dombay . Scale: 1: 100,000. State of the terrain for 1987. 1989 Edition

[2019AA-2] ¹ ² Population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (neopr.) . Date of treatment July 31, 2019.

[3] Postcodes of Karachay-Cherkessia. City Karachaevsk

[словарь-4] ¹ ² Suyunchev Kh. I., Urusbiev I. Kh. Russian-Karachay-Balkarian dictionary. About 35,000 words. M .: "Soviet Encyclopedia", 1965. S. 198, 743

[5] According to the Yandex.Maps service.

[6] Resort Dombay

[nfo-7] ¹ ² ³ Ski resort Dombay

[8] The story of the creation of the song "Dombai Waltz"

[9] Karachay-Cherkess Republic. Administrative divisions for 2007 // terrus.ru - Russian database

[1970E-10] 1970 All-Union Population Census. The number of urban population of the RSFSR, its territorial units, urban settlements and urban areas by gender. (Russian) . Demoscope Weekly. Date of treatment September 25, 2013. Archived on April 28, 2013.

[1979D-11] 1979 All-Union Population Census. The number of urban population of the RSFSR, its territorial units, urban settlements and urban areas by gender. (Russian) . Demoscope Weekly. Date of treatment September 25, 2013. Archived on April 28, 2013.

[1989C-12] 1989 All-Union Population Census. The urban population (neopr.) . Archived on August 22, 2011.

[2002B-13] 2002 All-Russian Population Census. Tom. 1, table 4. The population of Russia, federal districts, constituent entities of the Russian Federation, regions, urban settlements, rural settlements - district centers and rural settlements with a population of 3 thousand or more (neopr.) . Archived February 3, 2012.

[2010D-14] The number of permanent population of the KCR territories according to the final data of the 2010 All-Russian Population Census (Neopr.) . Date of treatment October 10, 2014. Archived October 10, 2014.

[2012A-15] Population of the Russian Federation by municipalities. Table 35. Estimated resident population as of January 1, 2012 (neopr.) . Date of treatment May 31, 2014. Archived May 31, 2014.

[2013W-16] The population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2013. - M.: Federal State Statistics Service of Rosstat, 2013. - 528 p. (Table 33. The population of urban districts, municipalities, urban and rural settlements, urban settlements, rural settlements) (neopr.) . Date of treatment November 16, 2013. Archived November 16, 2013.

[2014CQ-17] Table 33. The population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2014 (neopr.) . Date of treatment August 2, 2014. Archived on August 2, 2014.

[2015DS-18] The population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2015 (neopr.) . Date of treatment August 6, 2015. Archived on August 6, 2015.

[2016AA-19] Population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2016

[2017AA-20] The population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2017 (neopr.) (July 31, 2017). Date of treatment July 31, 2017. Archived July 31, 2017.

[2018AA-21] The population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2018 (neopr.) . Date of treatment July 25, 2018. Archived July 26, 2018.

[22] 2002 All-Russian Census Data: Table 02c. M .: Federal State Statistics Service, 2004. ( 2002zip , see note )

[23] Database of the 2010 All-Russian Population Census (Neopr.) .

[24] Dombay cable cars

[25] Sights of Dombai