Guzeripl (Adyg. Guzerypl) is a village in the Maikop region of
the Republic of Adygea of Russia. It is part of the Dakhovsky
rural settlement. The city is located in a mountain-forest area on
the left bank of the Belaya River, 76 km from Maykop and 46 km from
the Khadzhokh railway station. It is the last settlement in the
Belaya River valley in front of the uninhabited territories of the
Caucasian Reserve. It is connected with Maikop by an automobile
asphalt road that passes through the village of Khamyshki, the
village of Dakhovskaya, the village of Kamennomostsky. Has a daily
bus service with him.
It is located on the border of the
Caucasian Biosphere Reserve. It runs along the left bank of the Belaya River.
Near the village, on the right bank of the river, there is the
reserve cordon of the same name, in which the office of the Northern
district forestry is located and the huntsmen live.
On the
territory of the village, the Zholobnaya River and the Molchepa
River flow into the Belaya River. From the village, from the mouth
of the Zholobnaya River, the asphalt road Guzeripl - Lagonaki, built
in the 2000s, begins, leading to the recreation center
"Partizanskaya Polyana", and further under the Lago-Naki plateau.
The road ends at a dead end in the Yavorovaya Polyana area, from
which the tourist trail begins, leading to the Fisht shelter in the
Caucasian reserve.
The settlement was founded in 1924 as a cordon of the
Caucasian Reserve. In 1936, he received the status of a village and
entered the Khamyshinsky rural district. For a long time it
functioned as a village of woodcutters. The harvested timber was
floated along the Belaya River to the village of Kamennomostsky. In
the pre-war period, deforestation was done by prisoners in two
camps. There was a camp for general regime prisoners near the
Zholobnaya River. The high-security camp was located on the right
bank of the Belaya River in the Zaphenka glade, where the repressed
Cossacks from the Don were kept. With the beginning of the Great
Patriotic War, the camps were closed. In the meadow, in the
residential buildings of the zone, the cordon of the Caucasian
Reserve Suvorovsky is located. In 1961, through the gorge of the
Belaya River, a gravel road was built between Guzeripl and the
village of Khamyshki. During active logging near the village on the
right bank of the Zholobnaya River, a narrow-gauge railway was
operating for the transportation of timber.
Beginning in
1940, the village began to be used in tourism; the Guzeripl camp, a
branch of the Khadzhokh Tourist House, was built. In 1949, the
famous tourist route No. 30 "Across the Western Caucasus" was
launched, which went through the glades of Partizanskaya and
Yavorovaya to the Armenian shelter, then through the Guzeripl and
Armenian passes to the Fisht shelter, and then through the
Belorechensky and Cherkessky passes to Babuk-Aul. The tourist camp
was renamed the “Caucasus” tourist center. In the period from 1991
to 2009 in Guzeripl on the Belaya River, the water tourism
competition "Interralli Belaya" was held.
Currently, it
continues to develop as a tourist center. It houses a large number
of hotels and guest houses.
In 1987, at the cordon of the
Caucasian Reserve, a public organization "Social and Ecological
Union" (SES) was created, during the 1990s and early 2000s, it was
the largest public environmental organization in the CIS.
Until the end of 2012, the settlement was located in the
inter-settlement area and was directly subordinate to the
administration of the Maikop district, then it was included in the
Dakhovsky rural settlement.