Description of the attraction
A natural monument - Mount Zmeyka - a remnant magmatic mountain on the Caucasian Mineral Waters in Pyatigorye. The height of the mountain is 994 m. In the old documents the mountain is called "Zhlak-tau" - translated from the Turkic "snake mountain". It probably got this name from a series of narrow winding ravines that cut through the eastern slope of the mountain and resemble snakes in shape. After the development of beshtownite, the slope lost its appearance. According to other assumptions, there were once a lot of snakes in this area.
The upper part of the mountain is composed of a subvolcanic intrusion of beshtaunites, which form a picturesque rocky outcropping. The lower part of the slope is composed mainly of Paleogene-Lower Neogene clay shales of the Maikop Group.
Mount Zmeyka is covered with mountain meadow and forest vegetation. It is dominated by hornbeam-beech and hornbeam-ash-oak forest, numbering more than 60 species of shrubs and trees. Of the rare and valuable plant species on Mount Zmeyka grow dwarf euonymus, long rosehip, oriental beech, Nefedov's cotoneaster, Caucasian ash-tree, monotonous lily, and several species of hawk. The fauna of the mountain is also quite diverse.
On the eastern slope of the mountain, the locals discovered an unusual stone structure, in which they found many clay shards. The masonry was done by hand and a long time ago. About ten meters from the site of the archaeological find there is a sheer cliff, and a little higher - a natural pile of stones, which resembles an ancient altar.
At the southwestern foot of the Zmeyka Mountain there is the Zmeikinskoe deposit with carbonate hydrocarbonate-sulphate calcium-sodium waters.
The main attractions of the mountain: a monument to the workers of the quarry, the source of St. Theodosius, the Holy Spring, a stone-processing plant, a Stone with a hole, Devil's finger, the Telman quarry, galleries of the Zmeyka mountain, Crosses on the top, Zmeysky pond, Monument to the landing group "Revenge" and a dam.
Description added:
karpov.1948@inbox, ru 2014-22-01
the mountain has a cave but for some reason not words.
