The road to the gorge goes along the Pauk River. Today there are two trodden paths to the gorge; moving along one of them, you will have to wade a short distance through the river. A beautiful seven-meter waterfall and white rocks delight with their views on the way to the gorge. The water falling down formed a bowl and filled it, making it possible to swim there. In spring, many flowers bloom in the gorge: snowdrops and cyclamens, scillas and hellebores. The nature around the gorge transforms and surprises with its extraordinary beauty until autumn, and autumn paints this place with the gold of chestnut, beech and oak leaves. Many of the plants are listed in the Red Book.
The gorge is interesting not only for its unique nature, but also as a monument to the glory of the heroes of the ninth, thirty-first, three hundred and eighty-third rifle divisions. On the left side of the rock there is an obelisk with a memorial plaque: “Eternal memory to the heroic defenders of the Caucasus in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.”
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The Wolf Gate tract, or Chibi Gorge, is a small gorge in the vicinity of Goryachiy Klyuch. This is not the most popular place among hikers and is suitable for a leisurely weekend walk.
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Wolf Gate Gorge
The Wolf Gate Gorge, or Chibi Gorge, is a small gorge in the vicinity of Goryachiy Klyuch. This is not the most popular place among hikers and is suitable for a leisurely weekend walk.
Wolf Gate Gorge
44.668311 , 38.976745 The Wolf Gate Gorge, or Chibi Gorge, is a small gorge in the vicinity of Goryachiy Klyuch. This place is not the most popular among backpackers and is suitable for a leisurely weekend walk. Find out moreThe tract is located in the upper reaches of the central source of the Bolshoy Chibiy stream. The history of its name dates back to the middle of the 19th century, when the local area was actively developed by the Russians. At that time, carts carrying food regularly went to Goryachy Klyuch, and the caravans were often attacked by wolves, for whom the gorge was the only road to these places from the steppes. Over time, all the predators were destroyed, but the name stuck.
The “Wolf” tract is formed by steep cliffs of soft gray sandstone, which over time have become covered with numerous autographs of careless tourists. The length of the gorge does not exceed 50 meters, and the width along the riverbed is about 4-5 meters. In some places the gorge is so narrow that the “walls” on both sides can be touched simply by spreading your arms. The slopes along the rocks are covered with a dense oak forest, the massive trunks of which are entwined with ivy.
The path to the Wolf Gate gorge in autumn
Despite its length, the Chibi Canyon is very picturesque; due to its narrowness, a special atmosphere of twilight and dampness reigns here. About ten meters ahead from the entrance to the canyon, overhead you can see steps carved into a vertical line and the entrance to a small cave.
After crossing the gorge, you can climb to a small wooded area to look around. Returning to the path, you can get into the second, “bear” canyon, interesting, among other things, with Lermontov’s high relief carved into the rock.
How to get there?
To get here, you need to get by car to the village of Chibiy through the village of Novodmitrievskaya. You can leave the car at Sidreria’s farmstead, and the route starts from there. A road leads from the village into the forest parallel to the river past the pond, smoothly turning into a path. You will have to overcome about 2.8 kilometers along a wooded slope and continue moving up the river bed. The road will lead to a very picturesque entrance to the canyon, or rather, to two canyons at once - to the right of the Wolf Gate at the left source of the stream there is another gap - the Bear Gate, they are somewhat wider and shorter.
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Nearest hotels (hotels, hostels, apartments, guest houses)
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Five nearby hotels are shown above. Among them there are both regular hotels and hotels with several stars, as well as cheap accommodation - hostels, apartments and guest houses. These are usually private economy class mini-hotels. The hostel is a modern hostel. An apartment is a private apartment for daily rent, and a guest house is a large private house, where the owners themselves usually live and rent out rooms for guests. You can rent a guest house with an all-inclusive service, a bathhouse and other attributes of a good holiday. Check with the owners for details here.
Usually hotels are located closer to the city center, including inexpensive ones, near the metro or train station. But if this is a resort area, then the best mini-hotels, on the contrary, are located further from the center - on the seashore or river bank.
A hike has a beginning, but there is no end to hikes!
On June 1, the children of our village, together with their parents, went on a festive hike dedicated to Children’s Day to the Wolf Gate gorge in the vicinity of the village of Chernigovskaya. Here, in the Volchi Vorota tract, in August 1942, Soviet soldiers closed the road to the Black Sea with a strong defense castle. The front line passed in the vicinity and in the village of Chernigov, from here the liberation of Adygea and the Krasnodar Territory from the Nazi invaders began in January 1943.
The hike began early in the morning. Sleepy, but ready for adventure, we went to Novye Polyany on a regular bus to Chernigovskaya. Having safely completed this section of the journey, we reached the little train (locally called the matrix). Having filled the trailer (after all, there were 15 of us hikers), we set off! We traveled along the narrow-gauge railway from Chernigovskaya to Volchie Vorota for only 8 km. The matrix's movement speed is low, and this provides an excellent opportunity to carefully examine the beauty around you.
On the eastern side, the Lagonaki Highlands rises like a grandiose rock bastion. The Lagonaki ridge, with patches of still-preserved snow on its peaks, looks like a harsh rocky belt. Mount Chessy rises above the area as a separate cone-shaped peak, right below which, among the ridges, a failure is visible. This is where the Wolf Gate is located. The Wolf Gate is a rocky massif, deeply cut by a river, sandwiched on both sides in a narrow rocky gorge. Below, under the rocks in the canyon, a formidable rapid called the Lower Wolf Gate, which is the most dangerous rapid on the Pshekha River, seethes. How aptly this place is named! Huge “rocky” paws of a giant wolf rise on the right bank of the Pshekha.
Here, under the steep cliffs, two obelisks stand modestly. In August 1942, the Nazis did not go further than this line. 31st Infantry Division Colonel P.K. Bogdanovich's defense was firmly locked by the Wolf Gate. She fought heavy battles on the outskirts of the village of Maratuki, Mount Oplepen (height 1010.3 m), on the northern slopes of Mount Shupsa, village. Kamenka and in the valley of the Tsitsa River. Exhausted in battle, the 31st Rifle Division retreated through the city of Maykop, defended the crossings across the Belaya and Kurdzhips rivers towards the villages of Apsheronskaya, Samurskaya, Chernigovskaya, and firmly occupied the defense on the Pshekha River. Ammunition and food are almost gone. Delivery of them through the mountains from the Black Sea coast was difficult. Our soldiers were given only one clip of ammunition. But our mountains and the courage of Soviet soldiers helped in the fight against the enemy. And every cartridge issued found its target.
On the memorial plaque we read about the great feat of a Soviet machine gunner, who sat down in a small depression of an almost vertical rock and fired until the last bullet, not allowing the fascist invaders to move further to the sea. He knew he was doomed, but he fought to the last drop of blood. Thanks to such selfless soldiers, here, in August 1942, the 31st Rifle Division stopped the Nazis and from here, together with the 9th Mountain Rifle Division, launched an offensive to liberate Adygea and Kuban.
On our way there is an obelisk erected by Komsomol members of the city of Maykop from the plant named after. Frunze, still preserving the memory of the soldiers who died here. We listen to the story of our guide and the main “search engine” of our village, San Sanych, about the events taking place here, and then we plant perennial flowers in memory of the fallen soldiers. And a group photo for memory.
Not far away, having gone down to the river itself, we stop to rest with a light snack by the fire, and remember the story told to us, answering the questions of a pre-prepared quiz. Everyone found something to their liking: conversations around the fire, searching for beautiful snags and stones by the river, and simply admiring the proudest, stormy Pshekha, filled with waterfalls and rifts.
Impressed by what we saw, we return on foot along the narrow-gauge railway to Chernigovskaya.
The road is interesting, surrounded by mountain slopes that are tempting to climb and climb up. That's what the boys do - who's taller?
And the ripe, fragrant strawberries growing right along the sides of our road help restore strength. Beauty!
And along the way there are also memorial plaques in memory of soldiers - tank crews, pilots, unknown Soviet soldiers who gave their lives for our future.
And yet, fatigue takes its toll, because 8 kilometers on foot is a considerable distance when the youngest hiker is only 5 years old!
But..., encouraging each other, we return to Chernigovskaya and are just in time for the regular bus! And then along the path we have trodden to Samurskaya. At the finishing stage to maintain strength and in honor Children's Day We present our little hikers with festive ice cream. What a wonderful trip we had! We hope not the last, because summer has just begun.
We thank the organizers of this event for the movement to preserve the memory of our ancestors, those who gave us the opportunity to continue to live in this beautiful and amazing world!
The Wolf Gate gorge is located just three kilometers from the city of Tuapse, in the valley of the Spider River. It is worth noting that gorges of the same name are found quite often in the Caucasus, because this is the name given to narrow sections of rivers with numerous turns where wolves were driven during hunting.
The gorge near Tuapse is formed by steep sandstone cliffs. The approximate age of the gorge is 150 million years. Once upon a time it was the bottom of an ancient sea, the waters of which formed a deep depression. It is noteworthy that when passing through the “Wolf Gate” you can see both black rocks, about twenty meters high, and completely white ones. An interesting fact is that the Pauk River in these places has a very winding bed, although the composition of the rocks along the entire gorge is the same. Scientists have not yet solved such a natural anomaly.
The length of the gorge is small - only fifty meters, but it attracts many tourists with its pristine beauty. This place also has a six-meter waterfall with a large and deep pool in which you can swim, and several low but very picturesque waterfalls. Various types of ferns, vines, oaks, chestnuts and hornbeams grow on the slopes of the gorge.
You can admire the “Wolf Gate” by following one of the excursion routes along the slope of the ridge, or by going down to the bed of the Pauk River. In the second case, the route will pass through the bottom of the gorge, but this path is freely passable and open to tourists.
