NORTH OSSETIA - TOURIST REGION (continued, part 4) on the southwestern outskirts of the city at the crossroads November Buachidze Ordzhonikidze and is the tourist base. Here begins the Georgian Military Road, which connects the capital of North Ossetia and Georgia. Journey to the Georgian Military Highway - one of the most interesting tourist destinations. Throughout the road occur watchtowers, castles and ancient cathedrals. Not surprisingly, everyone wants to visit the places where at various times visited Pushkin, Lermontov, ASGriboyedov, Leo Tolstoy, Maxim Gorky, Vladimir Mayakovsky others. After returning from a trip to the Georgian Military Highway Chekhov wrote: "... I survived the Georgian Military Highway. It's solid poetry, inexpensive, and wonderful fiction story written by a demon, in love with Tamara. " On the southern outskirts of the Georgian Military Highway monument at the mass grave 17,000 soldiers and commanders of the Red Army, tortured and shot by the Whites in February 1919 Roadside memorials tsyrty (XIX century). The first miles of the Georgian Military Road is a wide valley, washed Terek in a wooded ridge. Next start resort. In the shadows of orchards are giving kindergartens, pioneer camps, cardiologic sanatorium "Ossetia" and "Redant, tourist base" Redant and Terek. Higher in the mountains located motel Daryal. At the seventh mile - the village Redant (former redoubt). The slopes of the surrounding mountains covered by dense forests of beech, alder, elm, hazel. Above - rich meadows. Passing the village of Balta, a gray ribbon Georgian Military Road is within the limits of the Rocky Mountains. To recall the words of Pushkin, he wrote about this stretch of road while traveling through the Caucasus: "The further we deepened in the mountains, the gorge has become. Cramped with the roar of the Terek throws her muddy water through rocks, blocks his way. Gorge meanders along its course. The stone base of the mountains obtocheny its waves. I walked and kept stopping, struck gloomy beauty of nature. " Crypts in Kurtat gorge in this area provides career development of high-quality dolomite, which is sent to many glass factories of our country. With each mile closer to the road podstupayut high stone wall ridges. From the settlement of MMI in the south-east goes Dzherahovskoe gorge. At the bottom it does run its frothy water tributary of the Terek - River Armkhi. This area is called the "Solar Valley". He has a mild climate, plenty of sunny days per year. At the entrance to the gorge Dzherahovskoe built Ezmin HPS. Left and right of the road and the village of Nizhny Lars Lars. In the Upper Lars in the floodplain of the Terek River attracts a huge boulder, called "Ermolov stone." In the interior of the boulder in WWII pillboxes were built. A new hostel in the valley behind the upper tional police Lars Georgian Military Road comes into the limits of the Kazbek district. On the right side of the road - one of the highest peaks of the Greater Caucasus - Kazbek, whose height is 5,033 m. The river gorge kayaking begins the ascent to the Main Caucasian ridge. From the settlement Gudauri opens a unique view of the beautiful snow-capped mountains Seven Brothers, and on the bottom of a deep abyss runs headlong White Aragvi. Descent to the picturesque river valley, on the crusade pass the road descends on the southern slope of the Caucasus Mountains. In the valley of the river Aragvi stretch of the village, and at its confluence with the Kuru is Mtskheta - ancient capital of Georgia. Here are preserved ancient architectural monuments. Further, after 21 km, Georgian Military Road will lead you to the capital of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic - the city of Tbilisi. Start material: Read more:
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