In Crimea, not far from Koktebel, near the road, there is a blue sign with the inscription “Here is the Golden Parallel”. I am sure that the majority of this concept is encountered for the first time, I have not come across such a term before.
And since there is something new and unknown, it is worth seeing and learning.
I suggest taking a walk, the places are very beautiful.
2. There are no precious metals on the "golden parallel", but from a geographical position the place is unique. The 45th parallel is exactly halfway between the North Pole and the Equator. It turns out that the climatic conditions are the best here. Here I was not surprised, but received one more confirmation. Beloved Crimea! 
3. We were in those places at the end of May, we got to the time of flowering. 
4. If you go up from the plate, you will find yourself on Mount Klementyev, it is Uzun-Syrt. Gliding developed here. I recommend that you look there even if you flew only in the passenger seat of the plane.
There is a steep path upward - to the memorial glider, there is a detour road. This time we went along the road. 
5. If you wish and the weather is good, and the weather there, as a rule, is favorable for flights, you can fly. 
6. I like to wander there, great views, space, nature. 
7. Take care of nature! 
8. Upstairs there is a paragliding club and a whole town in which there are hotels, cafes, sky lovers from all over the world gather here. 
9. On the way, you can relax and have tea in the cafe upstairs. 
10. Very cozy and aviation interior. 
11. From above there is a view of the entire valley and the Kara-Dag. After a respite, it is worth going even further, to the place that bears the romantic name "Starfall of Memories". I'll tell you about it separately. 
12. This is the beauty on the "golden parallel". 
And we are going to Crimea again. Third time this year. See you!
Yesterday was Easter, and today it's snowing all day! Outside - April 17, 2017. And let it be early Easter this year. But this does not eliminate the feeling that there will be no spring: the May holidays are coming soon, and I am still afraid to "change" the car for the summer. Once again, you involuntarily catch yourself thinking: why was I not born somewhere in the south! It's not so easy to take and move with your family to Crimea! And so you want a simple atmospheric warmth. To go in shorts not only in July, but also in June and May, and - I'm not afraid of this word - in April!
Generally speaking, Russia has recently been perceived from the outside and from the inside as an "eastern" country. Our ancestors unambiguously perceived their homeland as northern. Only with the annexation of the same Crimea under Catherine the Great did the “Nordic” character of Russia “warmed up”. And it began to move eastward in the era of the geographical development of the Urals, Siberia, and so on up to Alaska. But Russia has not ceased to be less northern from this. The same Alaska - this is the east for Moscow, and for global geography - oh, what a north! Vladimir Zhirinovsky will show you this on your fingers - more precisely, on a pointer.
The following table shows large cities depending on the latitude of their location on our planet, from 69th to 30th - from Norilsk to Cairo. North of Norilsk, the settlements do not reach the status of a city, and south of Cairo, everything is clear.
The first thing that catches your eye during a quick scan of the table is how far north we live! Even if we talk about Moscow. After all, the overwhelming territory of Europe is located south of our capital! To the north only Scandinavia and the Baltic countries, and the rest of Europe is at the level of our warm Black Earth Region and the hot Caucasus! Paris south of Kharkov, Marseille - south of Sochi. Mediterranean Europe has no analogues at all in Russia, because there is simply no south of Russia. So, Rome is on the same parallel with Tashkent, and this thought alone turns my idea of \u200b\u200bthe world upside down, because in Moscow and Rome people live like on different planets!
But it all comes to mind when you look in the middle of the table. If we start from the very top, it turns out that only Russian cities are located north of the 65th parallel. No other country in the world has any large settlements in the Arctic Circle. But we have a whole galaxy of them: 69 ° - Norilsk, 68 ° - Murmansk, 67 ° - Vorkuta, 66 ° - Salekhard, 65 ° - Severodvinsk. And only at the 64th parallel the capital of Iceland - Reykjavik joins our Arkhangelsk.
The Scandinavian capitals are located as much as 5 degrees to the south: Oslo and Helsinki - on the 60th parallel (where St. Petersburg is), Stockholm and Tallinn - on the 59th. But this "south" still pales in comparison: just imagine that St. Petersburg is north of Moscow as much as Arkhangelsk is north of St. Petersburg and how much Murmansk is north of Arkhangelsk! And Norilsk is even further north! From these mental constructions alone, the Arctic cold runs down my spine ...
Hurry south! And from Moscow, which is located on the quite comfortable 56th parallel, we will follow "down" along the map - to my native Tula. In which it snows at the end of April. But this is the first city with a population of half a million to the south of Moscow, so it's a sin to complain. But on careful study of the table, it turns out that Tula is north of the overwhelming number of European cities. Dublin - south, Berlin - south, London - generally hot! London - the harsh climate of which the British are so fond of talking - is 2 degrees south of Tula.
The rest of the European cities are generally "in Tashkent": Kiev south of Moscow (we will still start from the white stone) by 5 degrees, Kharkov - by 6, Paris - by 7! But the most puzzling fact for me personally is that Ottawa (yes, the capital of that northern and frosty Canada) is on the same parallel with Simferopol! Ottawa and - Simferopol! Karl, how can this be! All my adult life I have dreamed of moving to the warm alluring Crimea, but it turns out that the "harsh" Ottawa is on the same latitude with it! What are they complaining then, Canadians? And what about the Americans, who, of course, are south of the southernmost strip of Canada.
The horror of consciousness of geographical facts continues: Boston is south of Sochi, and New York is south of Tashkent! Los Angeles is on the same parallel with Damascus, and San Diego is only 1 degree north of Jerusalem! There is nothing to see to the south of the holy city, because there is already an alluring Egypt, and everyone who was there will confirm that this is not Vyatka or Vologda, in which it is probably snowing now too ...
What about the southern hemisphere?
All this time we have been talking about northern latitude, ignoring the southern hemisphere. And here everything is very simple. Everyone understands perfectly well that in the southern hemisphere the closer to the pole, that is, the farther south, the colder. Simply put, it is a mirror image of the northern hemisphere. So south of the 40th parallel in the southern hemisphere there are no large cities at all, with the exception, perhaps, of New Zealand. It is as if, in the northern hemisphere, civilization ended at the latitude of Rome and Madrid. If Sochi were in the southern hemisphere, it would become its coldest large city! Realizing this, you involuntarily bang your head on the table and think: why were you born in the northern empire, and not somewhere in Tmutarakan like Melbourne ...
On the question of parallels
After we have confirmed the sad fact that we live far, far to the north, as the European, Japanese and American sages never dreamed of, it is time to talk about the "parallelism" of parallels. Is it one and the same - to live on the same parallel? Obviously, the climate of London and Eagle is, as they say, two big differences. However, this does not bother some industrialists, and they happily put an equal sign between cities lying on the same latitude. As do, for example, the winemakers of "Fanagoria".
Temryuk and Bordeaux lie at the same latitude - 45th. Therefore, Fanagoria wines are as amazing as Bordeaux? Or is it, to put it mildly, not so?
In general, even judging by the above picture, on the same parallel with Bordeaux and the village of Sennaya in the Temryuk region of the Krasnodar Territory, there are also vineyards of Moldova, Ukraine, in Russia - Astrakhan, and then the Central Asian deserts, the Tien Shan mountains and the Gobi desert. And all this is the 45th parallel. Of course, the climatic features of a particular region directly depend on latitude, but they are not determined by it alone.
With regard to the vineyards mentioned, linking the quality of the resulting wine to the breadth of a famous wine-producing region is a kind of simplification. Of course, for harsh Russia (even if we are talking about its most southern limits), the question of winter hardiness of the vine is of fundamental importance. In 2006, in the Krasnodar Territory, the temperature dropped to -37 ° C. Needless to say - the continentality of the climate cannot be corrected by latitude. In the same Bordeaux, the temperature minimum, which had a disastrous effect on the vineyards, was recorded in 1956 and amounted to -20 ° C. Just feel the difference.
Needless to say: if Krasnodar and Crimea are considered harsh regions, then what can be said about Tula, Moscow and further on - without exaggeration - thousands of kilometers to the north ...
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In Crimea, on Mount Klementyev, on the territory of the Gliding Sports Center "Koktebel" on the central stone in 2009, a plate was reinforced with the coordinates of the place - 45 degrees 00 minutes north - and the text: “In this place the 45th parallel passes - the golden mean of planet Earth. Hence - the same distance to the Equator and the North Pole (about 5 thousand km in each direction) "...
In 1884, in Washington an international conference was held at which it was decided to count the meridian passing through the axis of the main telescope Greenwich Observatory on the outskirts of London, zero longitude and standard time around the world.
The Greenwich Meridian symbolically divided the planet Earth into the western and eastern hemispheres.
Parallels and meridians are conventional lines drawn on geographic maps and globes, which serve to reference the coordinates of points on the earth's surface - longitude and latitude. Meridians converge at the poles of the Earth, and parallels run across planet Earth parallel to the equator, which is considered the zero parallel. The North Pole has a latitude of 90 degrees.
In the middle between the Equator and the North Pole of the Earth is the 45th parallel of the north latitude lies the Crimean Peninsula.
Crimea is located at an equal distance from the equator and the North Pole at 5000 kilometers. The wonderful location of Crimea in the middle of the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere is very symbolic and favorable for life. The 45th parallel to the north latitude - the golden mean of the planet Earth, creates the most important climatic feature of our peninsula: a long summer day and a sufficient number of sunny days and warm seasons. In Crimea, there is no equatorial heat, no northern cold, no long cloudy days without the sun.
Detailed articles about significant points of the Crimea, through which the Golden Middle of the planet Earth passes, were written by our contemporaries, local historians and travelers Sergey Tkachenko and Oleg Shirokov. However, they are far from being the discoverers of this Crimean phenomenon.
In 1925, in the travel guide "Crimea" article published Maximiliana Voloshin "Culture, art, monuments of Crimea"... Particularly noteworthy in the article is the story about the project of the Crimean railway, passing along the 45th parallel:
« Here - across the Crimean steppes to the Cimmerian Bosphorus, and from there the old caravan route ran through the Caucasus and Persia, which died out after the Ottoman Empire lay on all the trade routes leading through Western Asia, and Vasco de Gama opened new sea routes. "
The overland trade route from India and China was still needed by Europe. Most of all England was interested in him as the metropolis of India. The capture of Sevastopol and the blockade of Russian ports in 1855 gave England nothing. The British government was forced, against its will, to establish a real blockade of Russian ports. However, lard, hemp, flax, and flaxseed were sent from Russia to Prussia, and ends up in England at inflated prices.
Before the outbreak of the First World War, the tsarist government, under pressure and at the request of England, developed a project to build a railway along the 45th parallel.
The railway line was supposed to pass through London, Paris, Lyon, Turin, Lombardy, Venice region, Trieste, Slovenia, Harvatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Romania, Odessa, Nikolaev, Perekop, Dzhankoy, Vladislavovka, Kerch, a bridge over the Kerch Strait, Taman Peninsula , along the Caucasian coast of the Black Sea, through Turkey, and Persia to India.
During the First World War, Russia had already completed surveys for the construction of a bridge across the Cimmerian Bosphorus and work was underway on many other sites, but the civil war, the October Revolution of 1917 put an end to these plans.
"Undoubtedly, sooner or later the railway line will pass along the ancient caravan routes, and then Crimea will again find itself in the middle of the great European route from Europe to Asia, which will completely transform its trade and political significance."
At the 45th parallel - the Golden Middle of planet Earth, the most powerful telescope for astronomical observations of the stars was built in the Soviet Crimea.
In the Soviet Union, not far from Evpatoria in the Crimea, was built Space communications control centerwhich ran smoothly thanks to consistently clear weather and clear skies.
The Baikonur cosmodrome was also built at about the 45th parallel of north latitude. Equal distance from the equator and the North Pole provided not only convenience in launching spacecraft into orbit, but also good space communication and flight tracking. Emergency runways for takeoff and landing of "Buranov" were also built on the 45th parallel, which ensured the ease of control of the space shuttle during landing approach. One of them is located near Simferopol.
Finally, there are completely mystical facts that defy rational explanation. Local historian Oleg Shirokov devoted an interesting study of "subtle power ties", as if attracting the Christian shrines of the Crimea to the 45th parallel of the northern latitude.
« It is interesting that many Christian churches were built precisely on this line, and in places either located in the forest, or where people had not previously settled.
Exactly on the 45th parallel is located near Simferopol. Previously, there were no villages here, and only Russian retired soldiers founded here in 1784 the "Sloboda St. Petersburg Mazanka", and the place for the temple was clearly not chosen by chance.
The Convent of St. Paraskeva near the village of Topolevka (Belogorsk District). And again the church is exactly on the 45th parallel, and the site for the monastery was chosen in the forest zone. And there is no evidence that there was once a settlement here or that people lived at all.
It is not known how people chose places for temples - did they have such good astronomical instruments or did people choose these places with their “hearts”? In addition, the villages and buildings of monasteries may be a hundred meters a little north or south of the 45th parallel, but the places of churches do not know mistakes! ", - Oleg Shirokov concludes.
The natural phenomenon of 45 parallel north latitude should also be noted. Scientists are well known to botanists Mount Kubalach in the Belogorsk region. Zhere on the highest massif of the Inner ridge of the Crimean Mountains grows cyclamen Kuznetsov.
This beautiful flower is absolutely unique in a vast family. cyclamen, the rarest endemic of Crimea, named after a famous botanist. In its natural state, Kuznetsov's cyclamen grows only on Kubalach - and, imagine, nowhere else in the world!
On the slopes of Mount Kubalach there is another wonderful object of nature - source Ak-Su - "White Water", reminiscent of the legendary Belovodye - Shambhala. According to one version, the mythical abode of freedom and wisdom, Shambhala, was sought in the huge mountainous country of the Gobi, stretching along the 45th parallel of northern latitude ...
The chairman " Society for the revival of culture of Koktebel ", the poet Vyacheslav Lozhko has a wonderful poem dedicated to the 45th parallel of the Crimea:
Five thousand to the north
Five thousand south
And the center of the Earth - here it is, near!
Strive to Koktebel,
distant friend of mine -
You will take a look around the whole Earth.
Hence the 45th parallel
To the left, to the right, everything lasts.
Spirituality center - native Koktebel,
Oh, how many glorious names are there
and traditions!
In the middle between the equator and the North Pole is the 45th parallel. Krasnodar Territory is located at this degree of northern latitude, that is, at the middle parallel of our hemisphere. This is very symbolic. The wonderful location of the Krasnodar Territory on the planet, at an equal distance from the equator and the North Pole, in the middle of the temperate zone, determines the most important climatic feature of the region - a sufficient amount of fertile solar heat. Precisely fertile warmth, not equatorial heat or northern cold. Thus, the 45th parallel marks the region as the most favorable place for life. Figuratively speaking, we can say that the territory lying on the 45th parallel is located in the Golden Middle of the planet Earth.
At a new historical stage, the cosmic theme of the 45th parallel sounded in full force. Crimea, where the 45th parallel also lies, was assigned an important role in this grandiose task: it served as one of the space flight control centers (by the way, Baikonur is also located approximately on the 45th parallel). So, the equidistance from the equator and the North Pole provided not only convenience in launching spacecraft into orbit and their further control. Reserve lanes for Buranov near Simferopol were also built at about 45th parallel to maximize the ease of control of the space shuttle during landing.
There are completely mystical facts that defy rational explanation. For example, the "subtle power ties" of the 45th parallel line with Christian shrines. It is interesting that many Christian churches were built precisely on this line, and in places either located in the forest, or where people had not previously settled.
So, exactly on the 45th parallel is the St. Nicholas Church in the village of Mazanka near Simferopol. Previously, there were no villages here, and only Russian retired soldiers founded here in 1784 the "Sloboda St. Petersburg Mazanka", and the place for the temple was clearly not chosen by chance. Further - the convent of St. Paraskeva near the village of Topolevka (Belogorsk district). And again the church is exactly on the 45th parallel, and the site for the monastery was chosen in the forest zone. And there is no evidence that there was once a settlement here or that people lived at all.
We move further east - and the church of the medieval Armenian monastery Surb-Khach (near the Old Crimea) is at a point equidistant from the equator and the pole - and also in a dense forest.
It is not known how people chose places for temples - whether they had such good astronomical instruments, or whether they chose "with their hearts." In addition, villages and buildings of monasteries may be a hundred meters a little north or south of the 45th parallel, but the places of churches do not know any mistakes!
One more phenomenon of the 45th parallel should be noted - natural. For example, botanists are well aware of Mount Kubalach in the Belogorsk region: Kuznetsov's cyclamen grows here. This beautiful flower is an absolute unique in the extensive cyclamen family, a rare endemic (named after a famous botanist). In its natural state, Kuznetsov's cyclamen grows only on Kubalach and, imagine, nowhere else in the world!
On the slopes of Mount Kubalach there is another wonderful natural object - the Ak-Su spring. The name of the source, which literally translates as "White water", is very symptomatic. Does it not resemble the legendary Belovodye - Shambhala? According to one of the versions, the mythical abode of freedom and wisdom was sought in the Gobi, a huge mountainous country, also stretching along the 45th parallel ...
So, we can assume that the appearance of objects of extraterrestrial civilization on the territory of the Krasnodar Territory is not so accidental. Formations that have been studied for more than 35 years by the Russian scientist and researcher in this area, the coordinator of the scientific research association "Cosmopoisk" V.A. Chernobrov, gained some statistics. What are the mysterious crop circles? Is it possible their extraterrestrial origin, what is the feature?
Studies for 35 years have shown that the feature of the 45th parallel contributes to the approach of flying objects of an extraterrestrial civilization to enter the near-earth space. Yes, the formations are of extraterrestrial origin (excluding man-made forgeries).
Scientists have not solved the mystery of geometric structures in the fields. But the club of researchers "Kosmopoisk" shared with us about some features of these formations.
Crop circles have been forming for a long time. Back in the 18th century, there are references to strange ramparts on wheat of an even geometric projection. In 1980, the first Russian research club "Kosmopoisk" was founded, whose members are engaged in research in this area. Observations have shown that these phenomena occur on the territory of our country at 45 parallel north latitude. They appear at the same time with chronological precision. The convenience of such observations has formed the tradition of the "Cosmopoisk" club to go camp in the desired area and be what is called the center of events. The campground is located at the highest point of the surrounding area. At night (the time of the formation of the mysterious circles) a patrol with night fixation devices (cameras, binoculars, tripod devices, walkie-talkies for communication with the main camp) is on duty. Farmers have been cooperating with Cosmopoisk in recent years, their fears have been dispelled, and the plowing of anomalies has not been carried out recently. The anomalies made the owners of the fields fearful for the entire crop. Measurements with a Geiger counter showed that the radioactive background in the anomalous circles is lower in projections than in the main field.
Today humanity does not have such technologies, and, unfortunately, only knows how to pollute space. These projections are not dangerous for crops or people. A special feature is the disappearance of insects that inhabit, as you know, every meter of earthly space. Anthills, with which the earth is dotted in abundance, were abandoned by their owners. In circles, the hours of life freeze. But the wheat remains alive, the ears are only laid, more than one stem is not broken. The laying was done with a special order, straight, directed, with the middle twisted, as if mechanically, according to a certain pattern. The edges are even. The projections, despite their large size, are geometric, strictly oriented in space by the compass and have some unknown pattern.
The core is based in the center of the largest circle (in the ground in this place there is a depression 25-30 cm wide, 8-9 cm in the form of a cone, the edges of the ground are so compacted or burnt that they resemble polished graphite, there are no traces of inversion or depression at the edges of the depression ; education is not like a mechanical action.
According to the descriptions of the witnesses of the anomaly, the birds behave interestingly. Flying over the formation, birdies suddenly change their flight trajectory, flying around it like some kind of obstacle formed by a pattern. The researchers noticed that the corpses of hedgehogs are sometimes found in the formed circles.
The fact is that, according to the testimony of eyewitnesses who saw night flashes in the sky, when approaching an object, equipment first of all reacts, cars and electronic devices stop working. Cars deafen, electronic devices "jump", and upon subsequent approach, a person falls into panic fear, which drives eyewitnesses away, away from the place.
Apparently, when creating a formation, a certain electromagnetic frequency is emitted, prompting all living things to take their feet, saving life. With fear, hedgehogs are accustomed not to run away, but to curl up into a ball. That is why death catches them. There are cases when daredevils, overcoming fear, disappeared and never returned. The impact lasts for minutes, no more, after which panic horror is replaced by curiosity. The object from which the impact was made disappears by that time, and the eyewitnesses, overwhelmed with excitement, enter the field. Witnesses say the ground in the formation is hot for the next few hours. When they first hit the formed circle after 10 hours, the members of "Kosmopoisk" noted that the thermal imager recorded an elevated temperature of the earth in the formation by 10 ° C. And this is after 10 hours of night and morning coolness of the environment!
On June 8, 2015, a new formation was noted on the territory of Adygea near the village of Dondukovskaya. A mobile detachment of ufologists from the city of Armavir, led by Sershey Frolov, immediately went to investigate the phenomenon (see photo above). The forecast is that the circles are genuine. Measurements were made, witnesses were identified. Unfortunately, no witnesses were found this year. The formation is located far from the settlement, and the track is deserted at night. The circles at the time of the arrival of the mobile group were pretty trampled, the end one was practically destroyed. Accurate measurements were taken, soils were taken for analysis. Armavir is waiting for the main arrival of the "Cosmopoisk" group headed by VA Chernobrov for further research.
Ekaterina Goncharova,
member of the "Cosmopoisk" group
Armavir
Communication with ufologists
Armavir: [email protected]