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 Nature
monument (1969) is situated above the trolley-bus road near the
village Botanicheskoe. The lime rocks, cut in two, form here the
cold dark gorge. Sheer rocks of 25-30 metres overhang above the
heads.
There is a forest growing along the upper edge
of the gorge. Nikita Fissure is 30 metres wide and stretches from
east to west for 200 metres.
The realm of the gloomy rocks is full of stone
chaoses and screes and deep cracks where it is cold as in grave
even in summer. All the three exits from the fissure are cluttered
up with pyramidal rocks.
Peculiar flora supplements the distinctiveness
of Nikita Fissure. The bushes of bramble and virgin's bower which
look like soft emerald pillows are seen on the bottom. Evergreen
ivy creeps from the cracks.
The individual crooked trunks of the bramble
and the Crimean pines take shelter here and there on the walls.
You can just watch and wonder at the striking ability of plants
to adapt to life on the bare rocks.
Also there are here such trees as, pistachio,
mountain ash, fluffy oak and microcarpous (small-fruited) strawberry
tree (red strawberry tree).
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