Photographer Alexey Shestakov

Alexey tell us the story about “The Lost World”:

When you hiking at the area of the pass “Baydarskie vorota” (Baydar gates) and start getting up from parking place, you need to turn right to the substation house and keep moving up by the pathway. There you meet a perfect viewpoint: from the one side you see Baydar Valley, from another one – azure sea, golden domes of Foros Church and massive rocks of Aj-Petri yaila. Under your feet will be the descent to the bed of so called “The Lost World”. What is this place? A gigantic tectonic fault at the level 75m had formed a rock bench, which altitude varies from 50m to 75m. Part of the old mountain had dropped into the fault and created a small plateau, crossed with huge splits. Ragged edges of the reared stone plate seemed pierced the sky and disaster feeling wandering over this place.

History reference:

In June and in September 1927 two seismic tremors of 8 points had shocked the whole Crimean peninsula. Epicenter of the earthquake was in the Black Sea 30rm from the seacoast. All along the shore were ruined buildings, destroyed communications, broken telegraph lines. A lot of people had lost their lives. In the Crimean mountains were a lot of landslides, which damaged local roads. Water springs are vanished and reappeared, even their chemical compound had changed. Gases were arising from the bottom of the Black Sea and these gases burned over the sea – such fire columns were hundred meters high.

In Sevastopol many houses were cracked; Post-office building and one of the city churches were seriously damaged. At the periphery also were a lot of landslips and slides. Aftershocks of this earthquake can be seen now at the Cheleby mountain near Foros. Slopes of this mountain are covered with the chasms and splits…

 To be continued. Please wait the next issues of us…