Batiliman, Tract of coastal woodland in Laspi Bay, Crimea
Batiliman is a wooded coastal tract on the Black Sea in the Balaklava district, at the western end of the Southern Coast of Crimea, 4 km southwest of Tylovoe. It lies beneath the sheer rock walls of Kush-Kaya and Kokiya-Kala, which rise to 664 m and shelter it from northern winds. The bay of Batiliman forms the western part of Laspi Bay, with Cape Aiya to the west.
In 1792 the Baidary and Batiliman lands passed to Admiral Count N. S. Mordvinov, who levied rent on the settlers until they bought the fertile land. Through the 19th century Laspi-Batiliman changed hands among Russians and French, who built houses and wine cellars and planted vines. In 1910 a group of metropolitan intellectuals led by merchant A. V. Kravtsov bought the land from the Crimean Tatars for 37,000 roubles and founded the "Professors' Corner" dacha cooperative; by 1914 fourteen houses and a road from the Laspi pass stood. In 1924 the settlement went to the USSR Academy of Sciences.
The name Batiliman comes from the Crimean Tatar Batıliman, from Greek βαθύ λιμάνι, "deep harbour". In 1910 a group of Russian scientists and artists led by merchant A. V. Kravtsov bought the land from Crimean Tatars for 37,000 roubles and founded the "Professors' Corner" dacha cooperative; by 1914 fourteen houses and a road from the Laspi pass had been built.
Batiliman lies 4 km southwest of Tylovoe, reached by the road built from Laspi Pass before 1914; the via ferrata "Batiliman – Laspi Pass", opened in July 2021, starts from the roadside on the road toward the tract and ends at the viewpoint on Garin-Mikhailovsky Rock at the pass. The slopes are covered with Stankevich pines and junipers, so stay on paths. The tract is part of the Cape Aiya landscape reserve, established in 1964.
In 2009, a survey of Ukraine's oldest trees found sixteen high junipers aged 1000 to 1400 years in Batiliman, with trunks 2.5 to 3.45 m around and 8 to 12 m tall, all within about 4 hectares.
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