Event Passport Krasnodar Region
Gelendzhik
Event Passport
Krasnodar Region
Museum of Bread and Wine
In 2010, the Museum of Bread and Wine, a new
traveller attraction, was established as part of the
Mikhailovskoye Fortification. The foundation of the
composition is a windmill with a unique millstone
arrangement of the late 19th century. The Museum
presents items of material culture that illustrate the
history of husbandry, animal breeding and vine grow-
ing development of Kuban from the earliest times till
the present day, and provides extensive informational
materials on the current state of bread baking and
vine growing in Gelendzhik.
Waterfalls
Multiple waterfalls that are 3 to 30 m high are
located on the territory of Gelendzhik urban resort.
You can enjoy the pristine beauty, coolness and
clearness of waterfalls visiting the Gebius (Tesheb)
Waterfalls (Arkhipo-Osipovka village), waterfalls of
the Zhane River (Vozrozhdeniye village), Pshada
Waterfalls (Pshada village), Plisetskiye Waterfalls
(Mikhailovsky Pereval village), Kuago River Waterfalls
(Pshada village).
Kastalskaya Font
A small lake with streaming spring water, home to
trouts and sturgeons. You can fish for a while and
cook your catch.
The Old Park Cultural Center
Here you can see a perfect copy of the Pyramid of
Egypt, the Temple of Zeus, a rotunda, a reflection
basin with a bridge and a garden house. They are
surrounded by exotic plants: thujas, pitas, junipers,
palms, cypresses, banana trees.
Sail Rock
A natural monument with a height of 30 m and a
length of 25 m. Its form resembles a four-cornered
sail. It's the place of clear seawater and amazing
pebble beach.
Pshada Dolmens
The Pshadsky District is considered a pinnacle of
megaliths construction in the Caucasus. There are
a lot of dolmens near Pshada (about 70) - monu-
ments of the neolithic age (3,000 years BC).
Golden Bay Aqua Park
The largest Russian aqua park was opened in 2004
in Gelendzhik. The Golden Bay Aqua Park encapsu-
lated the best entertainments and popular water
complexes of the world's best aqua parks. Many of
them are exclusive, just as the whole design and
the style of the aqua park. The aqua park style,
in general, is intended to mix epochs and coun-
tries. The aqua park is constructed so that visitors
could look into every corner of the aqua park while
moving across the territory without going twice
through one and the same zone. The children's
zone is made in the form of a castle with four pools
and bright attractive scallops and figures of marine
animals.
Olympus Park of Tourist Leisure and
Entertainments
A ropeway with seats will take you to the height of
600 m to the viewing point, from which not only
Gelendzhik but also Divnomorskoye and Novoros-
siysk can be seen. There's the only Ferris wheel
in Russia which is placed on the height of 640 m
above sea level. Enjoy a zoo, an exotarrium, an exhi-
bition of exotic fish, a children's village, leisure-time
entertainments, a dolmen valley, sportfishing, jeep-
ing and quadrunners.
Gelendzhik Dolphinarium
Shows with the participation of fur seals, a sea li-
oness and Black Sea dolphins. Spectators of the
show will be guaranteed a warm welcome and a
wide range of performances: vibrant dances on
the water, wonderful singing, spectacular acrobatic
feats, a sea of joy and fountains of excitement, a
firework of splashes and unforgettable impressions.
Museum of Cosmonautics
To immerse in the atmosphere
of incredible achievements of
science and technology, to learn
how people have been conquer-
ing amazing spaces of the Uni-
verse from the first spaceflight
till the present day, visit the only
Museum of Cosmonautics ded-
icated to manned spacecraft in
the South of Russia that fea-
tures more than a thousand ex-
hibit items, including those from
the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training
Center.
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