Chernorechensky Canyon
Black River Canyon, Black River Canyon
Crimea, Sevastopol
Canyon "Chernaya Rechka" (Chernorechensky) - a natural monument (1947), a state reserve (1974). For more than 12 km, starting from the Kizil-Kaya rock on the border of the Baidarskaya Valley, the Chernaya River flows in a winding gorge, squeezed on both sides by rocks several tens of meters high. In some places, this narrow and deep gorge is impassable: the riverbed is replete with extensive rifts and cascades, heaps of stone blocks, on the slopes you can see huge ledges resembling fortress bastions, columns, pyramids dotted with oak and juniper. And between the slopes, at a distance of 50 to 300 meters, during the flood period, the river flow rages, roars. It is no coincidence that the Chernorechensky canyon is sometimes called the Crimean Daryal.