SIMFEROPOL, Oct. 21Scientists have established that the height of the highest waterfall in Crimea, Uchan-Su, located on the southern slopes of the main mountain range above Yalta, is 116 meters — 18 meters more than previously thought, the press service of the Federal State Budgetary Institution «Reserved Crimea» reported.
““The absolute height of the dry bed of the Uchan-Su waterfall reaches 116 meters,” says the official conclusion of the scientists who measured the height of the Uchan-Su waterfall.
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The document states that the equipment used was a Garmin Montana 700 digital device. The measurements were taken in dry riverbed conditions in October. The parameters of two points of relative height above sea level were measured: the height of the lower stone and the upper ledge of the rock; from the difference in readings, the absolute height of the waterfall was obtained, which amounted to 116 m.
The research work was carried out jointly employees of the Federal State Budgetary Institution «NBS-NSC» and the Federal State Budgetary Institution «Reserved Crimea».
The two-cascade waterfall Uchan-Su («flying water») is located on the southern slopes of the main mountain range of Crimea and gives rise to the Vodopadnaya River in Yalta. For many years, scientific and tourist literature has indicated that the height of the waterfall is 98 meters.
The federal state budgetary institution «Reserve Crimea» unites several protected areas of Crimea, including the Yalta mountain forest reserve, on the territory of which there is a waterfall.
< br />The height of the waterfall could theoretically change as a result of floods and other destructive phenomena, but the difference of 18 meters is significant, senior lecturer at the Faculty of Geography, Geoecology and Tourism of KFU, geographer and speleologist Gennady Samokhin said in a commentary.
«Theoretically, according to the theory of disasters — This (change in the height of the waterfall) is possible. For example, in the area of the Red Caves, as a result of a strong flood by the river, ancient tuff deposits were exposed. But as for Wuchang-Su, I’m not sure here. If you use a household Garmin, then in the gorge the error can reach several tens of meters «. In the Soviet Union, measurements were carried out with traditional instruments, there the error was minimal. When measuring in a gorge or trenches, tachometers, theodolites and levels are used. On the other hand, it is important that colleagues considered the measurement points to be the beginning and the end of the waterfall,» he said in a commentary Samokhin.