Nature monument (1947), state reservation (1974). The Black River stretches more than 12 kilometres beginning at the Baydarskaya valley and flows along the winding gorge, squeezed between two ranges of the rocks, a scores of metres high. From place to place this narrow and deep gorge is almost impassable because the bottom of the river abounds with vast shoals and cascades, piles of boulders. On the slopes there are many huge juts in the shape of the towers, columns, pyramids covered with the oaks and junipers. When flooding the stream roars and rages between the slopes at the height from 50 till 300 metres. Sometimes, not by chance, canyon 'The Black River' is called Crimean Darial.
