The city of Gelendzhik is located at the foot of the Markotkh mountain range (its western part), on the Black Sea (the coast of the Gelendzhik Bay). The entrance to the bay is approximately one nautical mile wide, with two capes on the sides: the northern one - Thin and the southern one - Tolstoy.
Novorossiysk is only twenty-five kilometers away, so if you decide to get to Gelendzhik by train, it's best to get to Novorossiysk railway station first. The journey will be exciting and interesting. No one is left indifferent to the views of the mountains, immersed in green forests.
How to get to Gelendzhik by train
To get to the place of rest is more convenient and comfortable by train, as many travelers think. The only downside is that tickets are very hard to get during the holiday season. This must be taken care of in advance, best of all on the first day when empty seats are announced (forty-five days before the trip). Let's take a closer look at how to get to Gelendzhik by train.
The city of Gelendzhik itself does not yet have its own railway andstation, the rails have not yet been laid here. There is a project to build tracks from Novorossiysk to Gelendzhik, but it is not yet known when it will become a reality. The nearest station from the resort town is in Novorossiysk. This is where you need to get if you want to be in Gelendzhik as quickly as possible. Well, the easiest way to get to Novorossiysk itself. If you set off from Moscow, trains in this direction run every day from Paveletsky, Kursky, Kazansky stations.
Travel to Gelendzhik: train tickets, prices
Going to Gelendzhik via Novorossiysk, take care of tickets in advance. The cost of the trip varies significantly depending on the conditions. So, for example, a ticket for a second-class carriage of a train departing from Paveletsky Station costs from one thousand six hundred rubles. A premium train departs from the Kazansky railway station, and a seat in an SV carriage here costs 8,500 rubles.
From St. Petersburg you can also get to Gelendzhik by train via Novorossiysk, which departs daily from the Ladozhsky railway station. Here the cost of tickets varies from two and a half thousand for a second-class carriage to eight thousand seven hundred rubles for a SV carriage.
The way to Gelendzhik
Having reached the Novorossiysk railway station, it will not be difficult to get to Gelendzhik. You can take a taxi or take a regular bus that departs from the bus station every twenty minutes. Shuttle taxis depart from the station square to Gelendzhik.
If failedyou can buy tickets directly to Novorossiysk, you can get to Gelendzhik by train through Sochi, Anapa. There are railway stations here. It can be reached by any vehicle from here, but the road will take longer than from Novorossiysk.
What makes Gelendzhik attractive
The favorable season for vacationers lasts here from early May to mid-October, sea water is heated from 18 to 24 degrees. There are 114 beach areas on the Gelendzhik coastline, almost all of them are of the pebble type. In total, the length of the beaches is 20423 meters. In the very center of the Gelendzhik Bay, a sandy beach was specially created artificially, its length is 1000 meters, and the area occupies 5.5 hectares.
Gelendzhik is famous for its mineral springs. In the vicinity of the city, 5 self-flowing mineral springs and 18 deposits of useful mineral water are registered. Almost all sanatoriums, he alth resorts of the resort use sodium, chloride, hydrocarbonate waters, which contain a small concentration of boron, iodine and bromine, iodine waters from the Solntsedarskoye deposit. "Gelendzhik" medicinal table water is in great demand among the population of the Krasnodar Territory and beyond, its industrial production has been established. Sanatoriums of Gelendzhik annually receive patients with cardiovascular diseases, respiratory, endocrine, nervous systems, musculoskeletal system. Medicinal mud from the Taman Peninsula is delivered to the sanatorium. The most popular in Gelendzhik are the following he alth resorts:"Blue Wave", "Gelendzhik", "Primorye", them. M. Lomonosov, "Red Talka", "Sunny Beach", "Rus", "Chernomorets". Boarding houses "Builder", "Kavkaz", "Friendly coast", "Kabardinka", "Fakel".
The influence of the sea on the climate of Gelendzhik
Thousands of tourists seek to get into this paradise with a mild, warm climate. And although there is no direct Moscow-Gelendzhik train, how to get to these places is easy to find out. There are several options, choosing one of them, for example, through Novorossiysk, you will reach Gelendzhik from anywhere in the country.
Many are interested in why these parts have warm, favorable weather for most of the year. All this thanks to the warm Black Sea and the Caucasus Mountains. In the depths of the sea, the water temperature is never below 7 degrees. In winter, warm water rises from the depths and replaces the cold water that descends. This is how circulation works. At the same time, the eastern monsoons that dominate the coast drive away chilled waters from the coast, instead of them, the current from Asia Minor brings warm waters here. Due to such phenomena, the eastern part of the Black Sea is always warmer than the western part by 6 degrees, although they are located at the same latitude. In the summer, the opposite happens: night breezes drive away strongly heated waters, which are replaced by cooler lower layers. Therefore, in summer there is no sweltering heat. The climate is favorable for recreation all year round.
