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Nature monument (1947), state reservation (1974).
The Black River stretches more than 12 kilometres beginning at the
Baydarskaya valley and flows along the winding gorge, squeezed between
two ranges of the rocks, a scores of metres high. From place to
place this narrow and deep gorge is almost impassable because the
bottom of the river abounds with vast shoals and cascades, piles
of boulders. On the slopes there are many huge juts in the shape
of the towers, columns, pyramids covered with the oaks and junipers.
When flooding the stream roars and rages between the slopes at the
height from 50 till 300 metres. Sometimes, not by chance, canyon
'The Black River' is called Crimean Darial.
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