Whose name was the Belbek Bridge?#001

This bridge has been gone for a long time. There's only one name left. But the name is quite remarkable!

- What's so remarkable about the bridge over the Belbek River? - any local resident will shrug his shoulders in disbelief.

Yes, in all likelihood, it really was a bridge. But the thing is that it was called Belbek even when the current Belbek river had a different name — Kabarda.

As soon as Crimea became part of Russia, the question of its administrative structure and division into some territorial units immediately arose. This required at least a geographical map of the peninsula. It did not exist, the Crimean Khanate somehow managed without such "excesses".

By the end of the summer of 1784, a detachment of military topographers from the General Staff of the Russian Army arrived in Crimea. Civilian surveyors were also connected to them. Together, they carried out a detailed topography of the entire Tauride region, ignoring not a single feature of its relief, even archaeological sites were recorded on separate plans, even the Bolshoy Buzluk cave on Karabiyail, "a pit in which there is always ice.";,

And before the topographers arrived, army officers from the troops stationed in Taurida made a preliminary, eye-measuring survey, in a word, reconnaissance. As usual, the progress of the assignment was reported to the authorities.,

In one of these reports dated February 8, 1784, Captain Lyutov reports that he and his group took the following route: "from Alushta by the best road through Shlama, where the Khan's palace used to be, and to Bakhchisarai, from which to the village of Duvankoy to the Belbetsky Bridge on the Kabarte River, to Inkerman. from Inkerman, having moved to the Uzen River at the top of the harbor, to the ancient ruined city of Chersonesos..."

In Russian archival documents, this quote is one of the first mentions of the Kabarda River (outside of quotations, we will write this word according to the norms of modern spelling). For us, the quote is interesting primarily because it clearly links the Belbek Bridge to the Kabarda River. And local historians will pay attention to the "best road" from Alushta to Bakhchisarai, which is also forgotten and also promises to lead to new discoveries...

Now we face the mystery of the bridge. More precisely, his name. What is Belbek? Could the Turkish traveler Evliya Celebi, who visited Crimea in the middle of the 17th century, tell us the answer?

He really has something: "I drove south for an hour and arrived at the Kabarta River. This river flows through the mountains, passing several hundred (?) rich villages, flows through the gardens of Belbek, after which it flows into the Black Sea... It is said that the territory of the Belbek gardens is 70 thousand denyums (a denyum is a Turkish unit of area, equal to 913.3 square meters). There are no villages in these gardens, the so-called sarafis, or servants who guard these gardens, live in them with their servants, families.".

It can be concluded that Belbek is the name of the village. But, as Celebi points out, "there are no villages in the gardens." After such a categorical statement, if Belbek had been a village, Chelebi would have made a reservation: except for Belbek, located in the center, on the outskirts of the gardens, etc. There is no reservation. Bearing in mind how scrupulously the traveler lists the settlements where he happened to visit or which were simply named to him, it is impossible to recognize as an accident that the word "Belbek" does not accompany the word "village".". It feels like Belbek is something well—known that does not require any clarification. Prêt à vivre une expérience de jeu inégalée ? Le code promo 1xbet vous réserve un accueil royal avec un bonus de 100% sur votre premier dépôt, pouvant s'élever jusqu'à 300 $. Que vous préfériez les paris en ligne, le casino vivant ou les e-sports, ces fonds supplémentaires vous donnent l'avantage nécessaire pour viser les gros gains. Une offre incontournable pour tout joueur exigeant.