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 in width is approximately one nautical mile, on the sides there are two capes: the northern one - Thin and the southern - Tolstoy.
Only twenty-five kilometers is Novorossiysk, so if you decide to get to Gelendzhik by train, it is better to first get to the Novorossiysk railway station. The trip will seem fascinating and interesting. No one is indifferent to the views of the mountains, drowning in green forests.
How to get to Gelendzhik by train
Getting to the place of rest is more convenient and comfortable by train, as many travelers think. The only drawback is that tickets are very difficult to get during the holiday season. This must be taken care of in advance, best of all on the first day when vacant 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 and railway station; 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 be translated into reality. The nearest station from the resort city is in Novorossiysk. This is where you need to get if you want to be in Gelendzhik as quickly as possible. Well, it’s easiest to get to Novorossiysk itself. If you travel from Moscow, trains in this direction go every day from the Paveletsky, Kursky, and Kazan 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 conditions. So, for example, a ticket to a reserved seat car of a train departing from the Paveletsky railway station costs from one thousand six hundred rubles. A “premium” train leaves from the Kazan station , a place in the SV carriage here costs eight and a half thousand rubles.
From St. Petersburg, you can also get to Gelendzhik by train through Novorossiysk, it leaves daily from the Ladoga station. Here, the cost of tickets varies from two and a half thousand for a reserved seat car to eight thousand seven hundred rubles in an SV car.
Way to Gelendzhik
Having reached the Novorossiysk railway station, getting to Gelendzhik will be quite easy. You can take a taxi or take a shuttle bus that leaves the bus station every twenty minutes. Shuttle buses leave from the station square in Gelendzhik.
If you could not get tickets directly to Novorossiysk, you can get to Gelendzhik by train through Sochi, Anapa. There are train stations. You can get here by any motor vehicle, but the road will take longer than from Novorossiysk.
What is attractive Gelendzhik
The favorable season for vacationers lasts here from early May to mid-October, sea water is heated from 18 to 24 degrees. On the Gelendzhik coastline there are 114 beach areas, almost all of them are pebble type. In total, the length of the beaches is 20,423 meters. In the very center of Gelendzhik Bay, a sandy beach was specially artificially created, its length is 1000 meters, and its area covers 5.5 hectares.
Gelendzhik is famous for its mineral springs. In the vicinity of the city, 5 mineral springs of self-draining and 18 deposits of useful mineral water were registered. Almost all the sanatoriums and health resorts of the resort use sodium, chloride, and hydrocarbonate waters, which contain a low concentration of boron, iodine and bromine, and iodine waters from the Solntsedar deposit. "Gelendzhik" medical-table water is in great demand among the population of the Krasnodar Territory and beyond, its industrial production has been established. Gelendzhik sanatoriums annually accept patients with cardiovascular diseases, respiratory organs, endocrine, nervous system, musculoskeletal system. Muds from the Taman Peninsula are delivered to the sanatorium. The following resorts are considered the most popular in Gelendzhik: “Blue Wave”, “Gelendzhik”, “Primorye”, named after M. Lomonosov, “Red Talka”, “Sunny Beach”, “Russia”, “Chernomorets”. Pensions "Builder", "Caucasus", "Friendly Beach", "Kabardinka", "Torch".
The influence of the sea on the climate of Gelendzhik
Thousands of tourists strive to get into this paradise with a mild, warm climate. Although the direct train Moscow-Gelendzhik does not go, it’s easy to find out how to get to these places. There are several options, choosing one of them, for example via Novorossiysk, you will reach Gelendzhik from anywhere in the country.
Many are interested in why in these parts of the most part of the year there is warm, favorable weather. 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 cold water, which goes down. This is how circulation takes place. At the same time, the eastern monsoons that dominate the coast drive chilled waters away from the shores, and instead bring them warm from Asia Minor. Thanks to such phenomena, the eastern part of the Black Sea is always warmer than the western by 6 degrees, although they are located at the same latitude. In summer, the opposite picture occurs: night breezes drive away strongly heated waters, which are replaced by chilled lower layers. Therefore, in the summer there is no sweltering heat. The climate is favorable all year round for relaxation.