tract Batiliman - (translated from the Greek "deep bay") is a narrow strip along the coast, driven to the sea, a steep wall of mountains from the top of Kush-Kaya. Cape Aya this streak comes very close to the shore and only about retreating pas a half kilometer.
Here in 1911-1914 gg. group of scientists, writers, artists built about 20 small cottages, beginning the holiday village Batiliman.
In 1910 and 1917. in Batilimane lived with his family professor of St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute, Abram Ioffe, later a prominent Soviet physicist.
In 1924 Batilimane was open recreational Academy of Sciences. Clean air, proximity to the sea, the beauty of wildlife, seclusion is the best contributed to rest and work of scientists. But the lack of reliable water sources has hampered the development of the resort. Yes, and now it is limited because the reserve was created here "Cape Aya" , the primitiveness of the whole natural complex Batiliman of great scientific interest, and the construction of an untouched beach , remnant groves of juniper, strawberry tree, pine Stankevich require an exceptional environment.
In summertime the air here is filled with the scent of pines, juniper, grasses and sea. Sacred silence disclosed only chirping crickets. Here nature should be the eternal laws.
