Baidarskaya valley
Baidar Valley, Bai-dereCrimea, Sevastopol
Baidarskaya valley
Baidar Valley, Bai-dereCrimea, Sevastopol
Bai-dere - Baydarskaya valley in ancient times was named so for its forests rich in fruits and game and wonderful springs. Well, now modern mansions look quite bayish, surrounded by a landscape called Crimean Switzerland, with a really mild climate without heat.
At s. Spring (Skelya) preserved huge menhirs - cult astronomical structures of the Stone Age, recently equipped for visiting the Skelskaya cave. The most famous monument of primitive man in the vicinity of Sevastopol is located here, in the center of the Baidar Valley, in the village of Rodnikovskoye (former Skeli). These are Skelsky menhirs - stone blocks placed vertically in the form of obelisks - the oldest example of a conscious construction activity of a person, the first example of architecture. If other archeological monuments, scattered in many in the Baidar valley and the surrounding mountains (cave sites, remains of ancient settlements, burial grounds), cannot be found without an archaeologist guide, then the Skel menhirs are not only easy to find and inspect, but you can even touch it with your hand, mentally transported into the frightening abyss of bygone centuries. They stand right at the entrance to the village of Rodnikovskoye at the first house (this is a village club). One of them is in the fence around the monument on the mass grave of soldiers of the Soviet Army and partisans who died during the Great Patriotic War.
There are two menhirs, these are monolithic blocks of marble-like limestone, covered with cracks, mosses or lichens. The largest one rises to 2.8 m, with an average cross section of 1 m by 0.7 m, it is rather slender, approaching the type of a modern obelisk. The second one is massive and squat, its height is almost two times less than about one and a half meters, with a width of 1.2 m and a thickness of 0.55 m. Menhirs are described by the famous archaeologist N.I. Repnikov in 1907, he also reported their local name - "Tekli-Tash" (in Turkic "placed stone"). But in his time there were not two, but three. The third was a fragment of a menhir, only 0.88 m high (in cross section 0.77 m x 0.55 m). It was dug out in the 60s of our century when laying a water pipe. A simple calculation shows that the weight of the largest of the menhirs is about six tons. Nearby there is nothing like a quarry - it was brought from the mountains and, apparently, from afar.
At s. Spring (Skelya) preserved huge menhirs - cult astronomical structures of the Stone Age, recently equipped for visiting the Skelskaya cave. The most famous monument of primitive man in the vicinity of Sevastopol is located here, in the center of the Baidar Valley, in the village of Rodnikovskoye (former Skeli). These are Skelsky menhirs - stone blocks placed vertically in the form of obelisks - the oldest example of a conscious construction activity of a person, the first example of architecture. If other archeological monuments, scattered in many in the Baidar valley and the surrounding mountains (cave sites, remains of ancient settlements, burial grounds), cannot be found without an archaeologist guide, then the Skel menhirs are not only easy to find and inspect, but you can even touch it with your hand, mentally transported into the frightening abyss of bygone centuries. They stand right at the entrance to the village of Rodnikovskoye at the first house (this is a village club). One of them is in the fence around the monument on the mass grave of soldiers of the Soviet Army and partisans who died during the Great Patriotic War.
There are two menhirs, these are monolithic blocks of marble-like limestone, covered with cracks, mosses or lichens. The largest one rises to 2.8 m, with an average cross section of 1 m by 0.7 m, it is rather slender, approaching the type of a modern obelisk. The second one is massive and squat, its height is almost two times less than about one and a half meters, with a width of 1.2 m and a thickness of 0.55 m. Menhirs are described by the famous archaeologist N.I. Repnikov in 1907, he also reported their local name - "Tekli-Tash" (in Turkic "placed stone"). But in his time there were not two, but three. The third was a fragment of a menhir, only 0.88 m high (in cross section 0.77 m x 0.55 m). It was dug out in the 60s of our century when laying a water pipe. A simple calculation shows that the weight of the largest of the menhirs is about six tons. Nearby there is nothing like a quarry - it was brought from the mountains and, apparently, from afar.
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