Dakhovskaya, Russia

Dakhovskaya (Adyg. Dakh'o) is a village in the Maikop region of the Republic of Adygea of Russia, the administrative center of the Dakhovsky rural settlement. It is located on the right bank of the Belaya River, at the confluence of a small right tributary, the Dakh, at an altitude of 480 m above sea level.

The village is located 7 km south of the village of Kamennomostsky, where the nearest railway station, Khadzhokh, is located. Through the village, along the gorge of the Belaya River, there is a road to the village of Guzeripl. Half a kilometer to the north there is a bridge through which the asphalt road goes through the Azish Pass to the Lagonaki Highlands.

Dakhovskaya is surrounded by mountainous mixed forests (beech, oak, fir). On the slopes of the surrounding mountains (Azish-Tau ridge, Unakoz ridge (part of the Rocky ridge) bushes (dogwood, cherry plum) thickets.

 

Geography

It is located on the right bank of the Belaya River, at the confluence of a small right tributary of the Dakh, at an altitude of 480 m above sea level.

The village is located 7 km south of the village of Kamennomostsky, where the nearest railway station Khadzhokh is located. Through the village along the gorge of the Belaya River there is a road to the village of Guzeripl. Half a kilometer to the north there is a bridge through which an asphalt road goes through the Azish pass to the Lagonaki highlands.

Dakhovskaya is surrounded by mountain mixed forests (beech, oak, fir). On the slopes of the surrounding mountains (the Azish-Tau ridge, the Unakoz ridge (part of the Rocky ridge) there are thickets of bushes (dogwood, cherry plum).

 

History

The village was erected in 1862 by the Dakhovsky detachment of the imperial troops of Russia under the command of V.A. Gaiman at the mouth of the Dakh River, on the site of the Circassian aul Asretkhabl (Adyg. Asratkhyable). The area is rich in monuments of archeology: the Paleolithic site of an ancient man, dolmens of the Deguak glade. On the banks of the Belaya River, almost in the center of the village, golden graves were found. They contain a lot of valuable things, monuments of distant antiquity. The gold bowl found there - a gift from Peter the Great and an ivory cane entwined with gold - which testify to the connections of the Circassians (Circassians) with the Russians in ancient times, deserve special attention.

There is a popular legend about the origin of the name that it came from the word "Dahe", which means beautiful in Adyghe, but in reality it came from the generic name of Daho, an aristocrat who previously owned the neighborhood.

In 1957, A.A.Formozov studied here a cave site, which is the first Paleolithic cave monument discovered in the Trans-Kuban region.

 

Destinations

The picturesque look of the village is given by stone fences of houses, well-preserved houses-huts with stone walls, covered with beech chips-plates, like tiles.

Stone bridge, built in 1906.
Memorial cross in memory of the execution of the Cossacks of the village in 1920.
Dolmens are located in the vicinity.