Leonid Petrenko. Krasnoyarsk Madonna
Bazaikha - river in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the right tributary of the Yenisei, about 160 kilometers long, flowing into it within the boundaries of Krasnoyarsk, in the microdistrict of the city of the same name. It originates from the non-residential settlement of Sukhaya Bazaikha.
Average water flow is 5.0 m³/s. Largest tributaries: Namurt, Kaltat, Dolgin, Zhistik and Korbik.
The river contains fish species: taimen, lenok, grayling, pike, perch, ruff, dace, gudgeon, burbot, etc.
The river flows through canyon-like terrain, both banks are steep.
On the bank of the river, at the confluence with the Yenisei, the village of “Bazaikha” was founded in 1640. The village was adjacent to a high mountain ledge, which was called Gorodishche, or Mount Divan. The highest point near Mount Divan is called Vyshka. A hundred years ago, wealthy Krasnoyarsk residents went to the Vyshka on certain holidays - to drink tea from a samovar, enjoy the spring air, listen to the larks.
In the 17th century, on the flat top of Mount Divan there was a Tatar fortress, which the Russians called “Snake Settlement”.
In 1883, during a school excursion to the river, I. T. Savenkov discovered the burial of a New Stone Age man. In 1884, systematic archaeological research began in the outskirts of Krasnoyarsk, including on the Bazaikha River.
In the 19th century, residents of Krasnoyarsk built their dachas on the banks of the river.
In 1931, near the mouth of the river in the village of Bazaikha, construction of a wood processing plant began, after which the village was included within the boundaries of Krasnoyarsk.
On the left bank of the Bazaikha, next to the Bolgashov Log, in the territory of the Stolby Nature Reserve, a marble quarry operated.
The river is suitable for tourist rafting during spring floods. The tourist route of the second category of complexity began from the village of Erlykovka.
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Description of the river
Average annual water flow - - 5.0 m³/s. The largest tributaries: Namurt, Kaltat, Dolgin, Zhistik and Korbik.
On the bank of the river, at the confluence with the Yenisei, the village of “Bazaikha” was founded in 1640. The village was adjacent to a high mountain ledge, which was called Gorodishche, or Mount Divan. In the 17th century, on the flat top of Mount Divan there was a Tatar fortress, which the Russians called “Snake Settlement”.
In the 19th century, residents of Krasnoyarsk built their dachas on the banks of the river.
In 1931, near the mouth of the river in the village of Bazaikha, construction of a wood processing plant began, after which the village was included within the boundaries of Krasnoyarsk.
On the left bank of the Bazaikha, next to the Bolgashov Log, in the territory of the Stolby Nature Reserve, a marble quarry operated.
Tourism
The river is suitable for tourist rafting during spring floods. The tourist route of the second category of complexity began from the village of Erlykovka. Kayak competitions were held at the threshold of Abatak.
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Literature
- Velichko M. F. Little trips around big city. - Krasnoyarsk: Book. publishing house, 1989. ISBN 5-7479-0148-6
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Arriving home, Pierre gave an order to his coachman Evstafievich, who knew everything, could do everything, and was known throughout Moscow, that he was going to Mozhaisk that night to the army and that his riding horses should be sent there. All this could not be done on the same day, and therefore, according to Evstafievich, Pierre had to postpone his departure until another day in order to give time for the bases to get on the road.On the 24th it cleared up after the bad weather, and that afternoon Pierre left Moscow. At night, after changing horses in Perkhushkovo, Pierre learned that there had been a big battle that evening. They said that here, in Perkhushkovo, the ground shook from the shots. No one could answer Pierre's questions about who won. (This was the battle of Shevardin on the 24th.) At dawn, Pierre approached Mozhaisk.
All the houses of Mozhaisk were occupied by troops, and at the inn, where Pierre was met by his master and coachman, there was no room in the upper rooms: everything was full of officers.
In Mozhaisk and beyond Mozhaisk, troops stood and marched everywhere. Cossacks, foot and horse soldiers, wagons, boxes, guns were visible from all sides. Pierre was in a hurry to move forward as quickly as possible, and the further he drove away from Moscow and the deeper he plunged into this sea of troops, the more he was overcome by anxiety and a new joyful feeling that he had not yet experienced. It was a feeling similar to that, which he experienced in the Slobodsky Palace during the arrival of the sovereign - a feeling of the need to do something and sacrifice something. He now experienced a pleasant feeling of awareness that everything that constitutes people’s happiness, the comforts of life, wealth, even life itself, is nonsense, which is pleasant to discard in comparison with something... With what, Pierre could not give himself an account, and indeed she tried to understand for himself, for whom and for what he finds it especially charming to sacrifice everything. He was not interested in what he wanted to sacrifice for, but the sacrifice itself constituted a new joyful feeling for him.
On the 24th there was a battle at the Shevardinsky redoubt, on the 25th not a single shot was fired from either side, on the 26th the Battle of Borodino took place.
Why and how were the battles of Shevardin and Borodino given and accepted? Why was the Battle of Borodino fought? It didn’t make the slightest sense for either the French or the Russians. The immediate result was and should have been - for the Russians, that we were closer to the destruction of Moscow (which we feared most of all in the world), and for the French, that they were closer to the destruction of the entire army (which they also feared most of all in the world) . This result was immediately obvious, but meanwhile Napoleon gave and Kutuzov accepted this battle.
If the commanders had been guided by reasonable reasons, it seemed, how clear it should have been for Napoleon that, having gone two thousand miles and accepting a battle with the probable chance of losing a quarter of the army, he was heading for certain death; and it should have seemed just as clear to Kutuzov that by accepting the battle and also risking losing a quarter of the army, he was probably losing Moscow. For Kutuzov, this was mathematically clear, just as it is clear that if I have less than one checker in checkers and I change, I will probably lose and therefore should not change.
When the enemy has sixteen checkers, and I have fourteen, then I am only one-eighth weaker than him; and when I exchange thirteen checkers, he will be three times stronger than me.
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Nearest bus stations, railway stations, bus stops.
| Name | Type | Transport | Distance | Schedule |
| Maganskaya | stopping point | train | 12 km. | Schedule |
| Berezovka | stopping point | train | 12 km. | Schedule |
| Lugovaya | stopping point | train | 13 km. | Schedule |
| Shushun | stopping point | train | 14 km. | Schedule |
| Camas | stopping point | train | 14 km. |
- the right tributary of the Yenisei. Presumably, its name comes from the ancient Kamasin language. “Abazai” means “iron” and “aha” means “river”. Subsequently, the suffix “aha” was Russified and began to be used in speech as “ikha”. According to linguists, this hydronym needs additional research. ("Toponymy of Siberia and Far East". Kr-sk: “Letter S”, 2008).
Until about the middle of the last century, the river was raftable, with a large number of dams. Numerous logs accumulated at its bottom, and the current carried wood debris.
Bazaikha originates on the Krasnoyarsk ridge (Kusui Mountains) at an altitude of 660 meters above sea level. Its length is about 126 km, and the basin area is 1000 km2. The fall of the river is about 3.3 m per 1 km. The width of the floodplain is from 38 to 252 m, and the channel is 12-35 m. The depth is from 0.5 to 2.5 m. With the onset of frost, the river freezes, and by the end of winter the ice thickness in some places reaches 80 cm. Water temperature in May it reaches +3+10 degrees, in July and August +17+19, and in September +11+13 degrees. Fish such as grayling, pike, lenok, dace live here, and taimen live in its upper reaches.
In the middle and, especially, in the lower reaches, branches and islands formed in some places of the channel. Bazaikha has 34 main tributaries: left - 21 and right - 13. The largest of them include such streams and rivers as: Yakhontov, Mishkin, Voskresenka, Kiprin, Korbik (21 km), Mokhovoy (5 km), Kaltat (20 km ), Sytkul, Namurt, Bolshoi Inzhul (13 km), Tartunsky, Zhistik.
Almost the entire Bazaikhi basin is located in the mountains. Its left bank part is the rocks of the Takmakovsky district: Ermak, Storozhevoy, Maly Berkut, Chinese Wall, Vorobushki, one of the many bizarre syenite formations known throughout the world as “Pillars”. The right bank is decorated with the Tograshensky ridge.
The right and left parts of the Bazaikhi valley look unusual and beautiful in contrast. The southern side of the Torgashinsky ridge attracts with its steep and rocky treeless slopes, creating the impression of a harsh mountain landscape, and the Kuysum Mountains are gentle, covered with taiga forest.
The valley of the Bazaikha River is one of the most beautiful and amazing places not only in Krasnoyarsk, but, perhaps, in all of Siberia. Here you can see bizarre rock shapes, outcrops of sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks. In the limestones of the Torgashinsky ridge there are fossils of ancient marine organisms that lived many millions of years ago, such as archaeocyaths and trilobite. Here on the ridge is the famous Arch (Through Cave) and the rock formation “Red Ridge”. Both objects are included in the list mysterious places Russia.
On the river there are such settlements like Erlykovka, Verkhnyaya Bazaikha, Zhistik. It is no coincidence that many recreation centers, health resorts and hotel complexes are located in the Bazaikhi Valley.
The nearest observation points with magnificent views of the river valley are Mount Vyshka and Divan Mountain, which complete the watershed of the Yenisei and Bazaikha.
And you can get a bird's eye view of these beauties thanks to the chairlift, which operates year-round on the territory of the nearby world-class sports and recreation park - the Bobrovy Log fun park.
At the mouth of Bazaikha, in the second half of the 17th century, a village of the same name was formed, which was included in Krasnoyarsk in 1931. By the way, it should be added that most of the described attractions and objects are located within the city limits of Krasnoyarsk or in close proximity to the city. You can get here by city bus route No. 37, reaching its final stop, and then we recommend taking a walk along Bazaiskaya Street. You can travel to these wonderful places by car.
Bazaikha
at the wedding of speleologist Sasha Torgashin
Torgashin surname
Krasnoyarsk is on it
Founders of Siberia
in which to live
If you don’t believe me, here are examples
And you will see it like in the movies
Torgashinskaya cave
And the village of Torgashino
To a land unknown and wild
The ancestors arrived from the Don
Build Krasny Yar Veliky
The foundation for our life
And they cut down this city
The one we live in
Time turns the gates of life
You two need to twist it
To disturb a good memory
Remembering the dashing great-grandfathers
Save and increase
The glorious family of Torgashins
Remember great-grandfathers examples
And not just like in the movies
Torgashinsky caves
And the village of Torgashino
Hidden behind the green curtain of the Torgashinsky ridge is another miracle of Krasnoyarsk nature - the suburban park river Bazaikha.
Bazaikha, Bazaikha
Siberian beauty
You are woven into the blue distance
Like a girl's braid
(tourist song)
According to popular legend, Bazaikha is a princess, the eldest daughter of the Tsar of the Yenisei, whom Prince Tokmak did not want to marry because of her grumpy and violent disposition. And indeed, the river has a steep mountain character: sometimes it swells, violently turning over stones and washing away bridges, sometimes it becomes shallow to the point of a continuous ford. At the end of autumn it beats for a long time, not yielding to the frost, all in patterned holes - a haven for diving birds: black water sparrows-dippers. Even in winter's sleep, the wayward river suddenly splashes over the ice shell, turning people's winter routes into icy swamps. Bazaikha begins in the Mansky district on the Krasnoyarsk ridge - an amazing maternity ward, the eternal birthplace of four suburban rivers: Bazaikha, Berezovka, Esaulovka, Rybnaya. The origins of Bazaikha are an enchanted land for explorers of the underground worlds.
Known here are: the beautiful Partisan Cave, stretching for more than sixteen kilometers, vertical caves - traps, a crystalline cave dotted with transparent plates of Iceland spar, a hydrothermal cave with unique spherical stalactites formed in the hot vapor of an ascending mineral spring. The largest underground cemetery of lynxes on earth was discovered in the Mayachnaya cave. There is a deposit of rock crystal, disappearing streams, fields of karst sinkholes, Vaucluse springs - natural siphons fed by underground watercourses.
All its 128 kilometers, Bazaikha rushes to the northwest, but at the same time, constantly meandering, as if trying to confuse the trail. Embedded loops (meanders) are a memory that once the river was a languid, plain lacemaker slowly twisting from side to side the whimsical loops of a steppe waltz. The slow uplift of the area caused the river to bite into the rocks, etching into the mountains the memory of the ancient plain.
Until recently, the wayward princess was the slave of a man who chained her for timber rafting with many dams, dikes, woven ropes and logs of giant ropes - booms. Nowadays Bazaikha is a free mountain-taiga beauty, to whom people come mainly only to visit: to travel through the Siberian beauty, to go fishing, to swim.
In the upper reaches of the river, on the site of the ancient settlement of Erlykovka, there is a permanent rest camp, and several village huts adapted for dachas, and down the river for a good eighty kilometers there are only sparse forest cordons. In the lower reaches of the Marble Quarry, the dachas are denser, on the very border of the reserve, and the former country of Pioneer stretches out, a chain of children's holiday camps, ending with the camp " Krasnoyarsk Pillars».
Bazaikha is a border river, separating the Torgashinsky ridge and the Kuysum Mountains; from the mouth of the Bolshoi Inzhul, it is the northeastern border of the Stolby Nature Reserve and is part of its protective zone.
People travel around Bazaikha all year round: in winter on skis, in summer by ford on foot, in May on deep water by self-rafting on rowing boats. You won’t doze off here like on Mana. The fast, narrow winding watercourse forces you to be constantly alert, without letting go of the oars. Main danger- “combs”: trees washed away by the flood, capable of “combing” everything off the deck in an instant, and tearing a rubber vessel to shreds. It happens that if the whole crew smokes, one of them lights up a whole clip of cigarettes at once and carefully places it in everyone’s teeth so that the smoke comes out.
However, modern rafting cannot be compared with the water fun of the 50s. Water tourism did not yet exist, the river was blocked by a cascade of timber rafting dams, and at the moment the water was released, Bazaikha turned into a roaring stream with artificial waterfalls, with jumping and spinning logs, many of which floated to the mouth stripped of bark.
What need could force one to go to this icy, roaring hell, even if illuminated by the sun? But what Russian doesn’t like driving fast? And what was there to ride in those days: no horses, no cars, unless you raced from the top of the “Feathers” on your shoulders. Some unknown sage came up with the idea to weave a narrow raft - a seal from car inner tubes and things started to work. There was nothing: no life jackets, no helmets, no oars, not the slightest idea about rafting techniques. They wielded short poles, fighting off clamps, small places and logs. At the entrance to the throat of the dam's spillway, the person standing at the bow had to manage to push the water-stop bars with his hands as he walked, and here he was - the delightful moment of flying along the crest of the waterfall. Then the oncoming shaft overturned the raft, and everyone found themselves under water. They surfaced, saddled the raft and, with cheerful laughter and whooping, raced on the enraged Bazaikha to the next dam, to the next flight. Now it seems strange, but for some reason no one drowned or even caught a cold in the snow water.
In the spring there are 2-3 days when the famous Siberian grayling rushes from the Yenisei to Bazaikha to spawn. This time is easy to determine by the frequent figures of fishermen lowering square nets into the water - screens suspended from thin poles. This prohibited method greatly undermines the fish population. A successful poacher catches up to five hundred fish during a spring night, which can only be called genocide. Grayling is a wonderful fish in all respects, one of the living symbols of the purity of Siberia. Grayling is not found in a warm, quiet, muddy, dirty river; give it crystal mountain streams. Among the inhabitants of the underwater kingdom, grayling can safely be considered a champion in mountaineering. Sometimes, puffing with all your might, you would climb the two-kilometer Sayan pass to the upper limit of life. There is snow and stone all around, and only rare insects and lichen are alive. And suddenly, at the source of a ringing spring, in a stone hole the size of a bucket... grayling. Every autumn grayling “rolls down” into large rivers, where he winters like a bear, in some quiet, deep pool - the fish kingdom of Morpheus. How many kilometers did this fish swim in the spring, overcoming rifts, rapids, waterfalls, jumping on coastal stones, bypassing especially high waterfalls, in order to breed offspring here in a tiny stone aquarium, near the very snow of heaven? Real grayling fishing, without any nets or sophisticated boats, high poetic art, and a sport worse than the former noble hunts. Instead of the medieval farce bustle of tearing apart a doomed beast - mountain fishing, an elegant, almost honest game of the mind and muscles of man with the harsh beauty of Nature. What is it worth to be able to make a decoy in the form of some insect from the most incredible materials at hand? There are masters who spend months chasing some red-haired peasant to beg for one or two curls of a fiery beard. You need to have a fiery passion for freedom, the legs and breath of a deer, to get up before dawn and walk all day along river cascades, rifts, and pressures. Above the chosen catch, the angler must disappear into the landscape so that the fish does not see either a shadow or the slightest movement. Then the scene of a fluttering fly falling on the water is masterfully played out. And here it is, a bright moment, sparkling with the silver lightning of a fish exploding the water surface! A strong, fast fish often breaks off the hook while still in flight and even on the shore, manages to go into the water. A fisherman who catches thirty graylings all day is the happiest of people. And this sparkling miracle, the silver lightning of the Sayans, is destroyed by thousands right in the city at bus stops.
Bazaikha, with all its bends, urmans, and floodplains, is a most interesting natural complex for those who are learning to read the living book of Nature. Along with the border of the reserve, along the river lies the border of dark coniferous taiga (the left, reserved bank) and secondary, lightened forests with a predominance of pine along the arid Torgashinsky ridge. All significant tributaries (Korbik, Zhistik, Inzhul, Namurt, Synzhul, Kaltat, Mokhovaya) flow in from the left, and the Torgashinsky right bank gives only meager tears of small springs (Bolgash, Voyla, Yakhontov, Vesely, Ilkin Klyuch). Thanks to the reserve on Bazaikha, you can meet all the animals representatives of the South Siberian taiga, but the Torgashinsky coast, in turn, enriches the living palette of the reserve.
Here you can find plants that are not typical for this mountain zone: yellow alpine poppies, alpine asters, Kuril tea, edelweiss, Liman gonium, some orchids and lilies. There are also plants of the Khakassian steppes and plants characteristic of the West Siberian Lowland. These plants are a living memory of other geological eras, and are called relict.
The same mixture of borders and fauna, typical of Krasnoyarsk, reigns in the bird kingdom of Bazaikha. During the year, you can observe up to two hundred species of birds belonging to the Siberian fauna (white-headed bunting, remez bunting, crumb bunting, black-throated blackbird). To the Chinese fauna (Grey-headed Bunting, Dubrovnik Bunting, South Asian Sparrowhawk Shrike). To the European fauna (oriole, goldfinch, song thrush, tree pipit).
Some birds belong to the mixed Siberian-Chinese fauna (deaf cuckoo, small flycatcher, warbler, ground thrush, ruby-throated nightingale, whistling nightingale, blue nightingale). There are species of Siberian fauna here related to the fauna North America(Lapland owl, three-toed woodpecker, redpoll).
The Bazaikha Valley is also interesting because Krasnoyarsk archeology began here. In the early 1880s, Krasnoyarsk teacher A.S. Elenev, in the lower reaches of Bazaikha near the Kyzyam rock at the mouth of the Mokhovaya, excavated human tools of the Early Iron Age.
With light, superficial strokes, we outlined a circular panorama of the Krasnoyarsk environs, so that it becomes clear that if the Krasnoyarsk Pillars are a diamond, then this diamond is enclosed in a worthy frame. The talented and wise founding father of Krasnoyarsk, driven by divine inspiration, placed us in a beautiful cup of the flowering of life, in a magical vessel of all things created for flowering and knowledge and its name is “Krasnoyarsk Academy of the Arts of Living Nature”. Here, every step opens up the depths of knowledge and calls for creation. An amazing crossing of the living nerves of the planet, a cosmic sense organ that exists to talk with the Universe, Mind, God. Unfortunately, living Nature is disappearing so rapidly that it is time to declare the entire Krasnoyarsk Bowl a nature reserve. Not a forbidden zone with careless and selfish governors, but a protected territory open to Man and for the education of Humanity.
Leonid Petrenko. Krasnoyarsk Madonna. Academy of the Arts of Living Nature. Bazaikha
Owner: Petrenko Leonid Timofeevich
Courtesy: Petrenko Leonid Timofeevich
Collection: Leonid Petrenko. Krasnoyarsk Madonna.
