Black River (reserve)

The land user of the territories of the reserve is the State Enterprise "Sevastopol Experimental Forest Hunting". The reserve is located on the territory of the Chernorechensky forestry. The nearest settlements are the villages of Shirokoye ( Crimean-Tat. Büyük Muskomiya ) and Chernorechye ( Crimean-Tat. Çorğuna, Chorgun ).

The area of ​​the reserve is 150 hectares . It is located in the western low-mountain part of the main ridge of the Crimean Mountains in the canyon of the Chernaya River, which has a length of 41 km and is the second largest river in Crimea. The width of the canyon is 15-20 meters with a river depth of 1.5-2 meters of rocks up to several tens of meters. On the course of the Chernaya River, 1956 , the largest in the Crimea Chornorechenskoe reservoir was created with a volume of 64.2 million m3 to supply drinking water to Simferopol . The dam of the reservoir was built in front of the canyon, through which from this side its 2 km fell into the protection zone of the reservoir. Since 1990, the canyon has become part of the Baidar Reserve , created to protect the water intake of the Chernaya River.

The reserve was created to protect the 12-km canyon of the Black River , which begins at the end of the Baydar Valley ( Crimean-Tat. Baydar uva ) near the foot of the Kizil-Kaya Mountain (Red Rock), whose height makes about 50 m . If at the beginning of the canyon the height of the surrounding mountains is 578.8 m / 592.5 m n. m. then at the end of 262 m / 263 m. g. m. At the entrance to the canyon, the average water flow rate is 1.94 m3 / s . In a deep narrow canyon lies a winding riverbed, which punched a passage in the Upper Jurassic limestone rocks with numerous ledges, niches, impassable rifts , cascades , and heaps of stone blocks alternating with floodplains . Outcrops of the steep banks of the canyon are rocky outcrops, covered in more gentle places with a thin layer of soil. During floods and prolonged rains, the canyon is filled with full-flowing water flows across the entire width, for which it is called the reduced “Crimean Daryal ”. In the upper part of the canyon, only the left bank is passable and floodplain meadows are located around the channel - Melnikova Polyana under Isar-Kaya, Partizanskaya Polyana ^[1] , followed by a sharp narrowing of the rocky banks. In this place, sheer cliffs approach the riverbed and leave no place even for the trail, making this part of the canyon impassable. The narrowing of the rocky shores extends to the first turn of the river near the Gate, where the tributary of the Yalta River flows. There, the right bank becomes the passage, where in the middle of the canyon the cave Shaitan_Koba is located. Traces of the stay of a primitive man were found in it. Entrance to the canyon is prohibited for security reasons.

On the slopes of the canyon grows beech (“Fagus orientalis” Lipsky), juniper (“Juniperus”), willow (“Salix L.”), fern (“Polypodiopsida”), dwarf spindle-tree ^[2] (“Euonymus europaeus”), listed in Red Book , Moss ("Bryophyta"), Lichens ("Lichenes"). In the backwaters there are reeds (“Phragmites cumunis”), marsh males (“Iris pseudacorus”).

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  Chernorechensky canyon

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• Mr. En “Crimea Nature” Series LANDSCAPE MONUMENTS, “Crimea” Institute, Simferopol, 1964

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