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…
