Dakhovskaya (Adyg. Dakh'o) is a village in the Maikop region of
the Republic of Adygea of Russia, the administrative center of the
Dakhovsky rural settlement. It is located on the right bank of the
Belaya River, at the confluence of a small right tributary, the
Dakh, at an altitude of 480 m above sea level.
The village is
located 7 km south of the village of Kamennomostsky, where the
nearest railway station, Khadzhokh, is located. Through the village,
along the gorge of the Belaya River, there is a road to the village
of Guzeripl. Half a kilometer to the north there is a bridge through
which the asphalt road goes through the Azish Pass to the Lagonaki
Highlands.
Dakhovskaya is surrounded by mountainous mixed
forests (beech, oak, fir). On the slopes of the surrounding
mountains (Azish-Tau ridge, Unakoz ridge (part of the Rocky ridge)
bushes (dogwood, cherry plum) thickets.
It is located on the right bank of the Belaya River, at the
confluence of a small right tributary of the Dakh, at an altitude of 480
m above sea level.
The village is located 7 km south of the
village of Kamennomostsky, where the nearest railway station Khadzhokh
is located. Through the village along the gorge of the Belaya River
there is a road to the village of Guzeripl. Half a kilometer to the
north there is a bridge through which an asphalt road goes through the
Azish pass to the Lagonaki highlands.
Dakhovskaya is surrounded
by mountain mixed forests (beech, oak, fir). On the slopes of the
surrounding mountains (the Azish-Tau ridge, the Unakoz ridge (part of
the Rocky ridge) there are thickets of bushes (dogwood, cherry plum).
The village was erected in 1862 by the Dakhovsky
detachment of the imperial troops of Russia under the command of
V.A. Gaiman at the mouth of the Dakh River, on the site of the
Circassian aul Asretkhabl (Adyg. Asratkhyable). The area is rich in
monuments of archeology: the Paleolithic site of an ancient man,
dolmens of the Deguak glade. On the banks of the Belaya River,
almost in the center of the village, golden graves were found. They
contain a lot of valuable things, monuments of distant antiquity.
The gold bowl found there - a gift from Peter the Great and an ivory
cane entwined with gold - which testify to the connections of the
Circassians (Circassians) with the Russians in ancient times,
deserve special attention.
There is a popular legend about
the origin of the name that it came from the word "Dahe", which
means beautiful in Adyghe, but in reality it came from the generic
name of Daho, an aristocrat who previously owned the neighborhood.
In 1957, A.A.Formozov studied here a cave site, which is the
first Paleolithic cave monument discovered in the Trans-Kuban
region.
The picturesque look of the village is
given by stone fences of houses, well-preserved houses-huts with
stone walls, covered with beech chips-plates, like tiles.
Stone bridge, built in 1906.
Memorial cross in memory of the
execution of the Cossacks of the village in 1920.
Dolmens are
located in the vicinity.