History, mountains and nature in an indissoluble union - Part 5

NORTH OSSETIA - TOURIST REGION (continued, part 5) From the capital of North Ossetia - Ordzhonikidze - begins a series of tourist routes. The sightseeing bus, leaving the city, goes west along the chain of the Caucasus Mountains. Fabulously beautiful string of towering they are from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea. In the bright blue sky glare of their snowy peaks. To the right lies the vast plain Ossetia with fertile fields of crops, orchards and vineyards with the collective and state farms of the republic. Watchtower Mamsurov At the entrance to the village of Giselle on a small hill among young birches and poplars towering granite obelisk - a monument to the brave defenders of the city of Ordzhonikidze, who died fall of 1942, here performed his heroic feat warrior Komsomolets Peter Barbashov, to close his body recess of an enemy bunker, thereby making it possible to break through their part of the enemy's rear. Peter Barbashevu posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union, his name is school number 30 of Ordzhonikidze, and the street leading to the monument at the mass grave. On the outskirts of the village Giselle road turns left and leads into the mountains to the famous Karmadon sources. The first kilometer road runs along the right bank of the river Gizeldon among the deciduous forests, down close to the river, then climbing up on the shore terrace. At 12 km south-east of the village Giselle departs Genaldon gorge with the river of the same name - the first influx of Gizeldona. Future path runs along the wild and narrow gorge Genaldon. In some places the river water trapped in the narrow gaps and canyons. Above them - straight from the wall rocks, which miraculously strong, and growing trees and bushes. And when the canyon widens before the traveler is disclosed in the emerald green mountain meadows of the valley with the very young Ossetian health resort - sanatorium Karmadon. Opened in 1863, the only hot springs in the Soviet era began to be used for medicinal purposes. It built a sanatorium for patients with diseases of the digestive organs, the movements, the nervous system. Today the resort is designed for the simultaneous holding 450 patients. Kurtat gorge. Dzvigskie barrage building quite close to "Karmadonov" are dargavskie overground and underground Koban burial. Difficult to assess the historical value of these silent witnesses of the past peoples of North Ossetia. Already in the XIX century. found in ancient tombs Kobanov with bronze (utensils, bangles, clubs, etc.), which was assumed by historians and archaeologists, belong to the first millennium BC. In the modern village Kobanov live the workers and employees Gizeldonskoy hydropower - the firstborn of the Ossetian hydropower. HPP was built in the first five years of Lenin's plan of electrification of the country. Tional police gorge. Skazsky forest near the village Dargavs is "dead town" - an interesting excursion sites, which is always inspected with special attention by numerous tourists. "The town of the dead," consists of several dozen above-ground cemeteries, crypts, resembling towers. In the tombs found small household items. Scientists believe that these tombs belong to the XIV-XVIII centuries. Start material: Read more: