Employees of the FSUE “Rosmorport” Crimean Branch joined the “ROSMORPORT – 20 years in the right direction!” campaign, delivering a flag with anniversary symbols to Ai-Petri Mountain, the most beautiful peak of the Crimean Peninsula.

Operators of the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) of the FSUE “Rosmorport” Crimean Branch Communications and Electrical Navigation Service, consisting of 8 people, covered 80 km along the southern coast of Crimea and several tens of kilometers along the mountain spiral road in two cars. The travelers found themselves at an altitude of 1,234 m above sea level.

Having reached the upper station of the cable car, the team turned off to the Yalta Mountain Forest Reserve and after following 4.5 km off the road reached the Ai-Petri radar post of the GMDSS, located on the plateau of Ai-Petri Mountain.

The richest natural landscape of the Black Sea coast is famous for its mountain ranges and sea expenses. Ai-Petri is one of the main landmarks of the peninsula, attracting many tourists from all over the world with its fascinating views, amazing line of curly pinnacles, bizarre color of rocks. This picturesque place allows you to enjoy the magnificent scenery and exquisite beauty of the peninsula. One of the most famous hiking trails runs through the picturesque Wuchang-Su Waterfall. The peak is a part of the Ai-Petri mountain pasture within the Crimean Mountains. On one side of the Ai-Petri peak there is a magnificent view of the distant sea, and on the other – of the mountain ranges.

A unique cable car was built on the mountain, famous for its longest unsupported span between the middle and upper stations in Europe (1,670 m). This fact got into the Guinness Book of Records. The total length of the road is 2,980 m.

Having reached their goal, the employees of the Crimean Branch, under the leadership of the head of the Communications and Electrical Navigation Service Andrey Sychev, solemnly installed the flag of FSUE “Rosmorport” at the Ai-Petri radar post of GMDSS with a height of 40 m.

The “ROSMORPORT – 20 years in the right direction!” campaign is designed to demonstrate the beauty and richness of tourist routes in Russia, to show the high importance of FSUE “Rosmorport” in the development of the maritime industry of the country. Earlier, Makhachkala, Arkhangelsk, Sakhalin, Murmansk and Petropavlovsk branches, Azovo-Chernomorsky, Far Eastern and North-Eastern basin branches took part in the events of the campaign.

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Ai-Petri Mountain towers over the town of Alupka and the village of Koreiz on the territory of the Yalta Mountain Forest Reserve. A thousand-year-old yew tree grows on the top of the famous mountain.

The history of this amazing mountain is very interesting and mysterious. About 230 million years ago, there was a seabed here, and the mountain began to rise because of the movement of tectonic plates. Over time, about 2 million years ago, it reached the form it has today. The name of the mountain is of Greek origin and is literally translated as “Saint Peter”. Once there was a medieval Greek monastery here, its ruins are still preserved on Ai-Petri.