Many people compare rivers with veins and arteries in the human body, which carry beneficial substances in themselves. There are a lot of similarities, because rivers carry the basis of life - water. They flow somewhere about their business, continuously and sometimes imperceptibly.
There are many rivers in the region and Abin is one of them.

Character

It starts from the northern part of the slopes of Kotsekhur (another name for Bald Mountains). She has a fast start, clear water gurgles merrily. Near the Erivan village, the Mikhale already flows into it, another river, and then they calm down together, slowly moving along the gorge. Here, along the river, there is a road made of soil from Erivan to Shapsugskaya, where its tributary Adegoy and another river Shaparka join the river on the right. More already without large tributaries, the Abintechet further bypasses Abinsk and then connects with the Varnavinsky reservoir, becoming itself a tributary of another river, the Adagum.
After Erivan, the water in Abin changes, it darkens, the bottom is no longer so visible and is highly dependent on floods.

Story

More than a century ago, in 1830, there were fortifications on the sites of two villages, which were erected by the Cossacks living in the area. Entire families were settled there by the government specially near Abin, believing that the river would then fully provide people with water, but the local land is not very convenient for arable work. Residents even tried to file a complaint and ask for another place.
Previously, the Circassians and Shapsugs lived in these places, giving names to local rivers, gorges and mountains. Over time, some of them migrated to other places, other peoples appeared, but the names remained along with other monuments of ancient culture.

Gradually, the fortifications turned into villages. Of course, the place is still not very suitable for agriculture, but tourists visit it very often, making trips in jeeps along the river. Abin is also rich in fish, in this respect the government of the 19th century was not mistaken.

It's November and the fertile days for fishing are coming to an end - there are rains and winds ahead. And as confirmation of the above, in strict accordance with the computer forecast, the day before the scheduled departure, on Saturday morning, autumn rain charged, which by the evening still stopped for a while, and then poured again, but not for so long. But, despite all these ups and downs, I didn’t want to endure the planned fishing trip, and I decided to go. And where - the morning of the evening is wiser, especially since I wanted to visit two reservoirs, which I had not been to for a long time.
The morning met my exit from the house with dried asphalt and a starry sky. I got into my car and started on my way. Approaching the fork in Abrau or Krymsk, I thought for a minute, but still the river tipped the scales and it was decided to go to. Climbing the Wolf Gate Pass met me with fog and tedious drizzle. This fog and drizzle, with rare breaks, accompanied me all the way to Krymsk. And already at the turn to the river from the highway, this fog remained aside and I drove up to the place of the proposed fishing place in clear weather. By this time it had already dawned for a long time, but there was no sun, as it was hidden by high dense clouds.
Having approached the bridge across the Abinka in front of the Veseliy farm, I saw cars on the side of the road, and fishermen by the river, waiting for a bite. This cheered me up a little - it means I'm not the only one so restless. Looking at the river, I found a low water level and a slightly different outline of the banks, compared to what I remember from my previous fishing about a year ago at this place. The slippery mess, into which the top layer of the dirt road turned after the last rain, repulsed the desire to make his way in his non-4WD car through the Mova farm to the reservoir dam and along it to the mouth of this very river. But there was also no particular desire to catch at the bridge itself.

Abin river. View from the bridge.

As a result, it was decided to drive as far as possible to the mouth of the river along the road on the dam from the side of the bridge, especially since the beginning was quite encouraging - a dirt road strewn with limestone gravel, wet, but not limp. Violation of the first commandment of underdrive: “The more you walk, the more you drive” killed me. After driving a hundred meters along the road, I was horrified to see changes in the road, and not for the better. The pits that appeared and rather deep ruts filled with water diminished optimism, but the car has so far overcome all these obstacles, sometimes really clinging to the bottom of the inter-rut hillock. Worst of all was that there was no way to turn around, and walking backwards along those potholes with tinted windows was also problematic. And I decided to go forward to a place with the possibility of a U-turn. And so, soon the moment came when it was simply not realistic to go forward, and the road went down to the second dirt road going closer to the river.

Distance traveled

Fatal descent.

This was my fatal mistake. Before you "rock the boat" on it, you had to walk it, weigh all the pros and cons, and only then make the right decision - to move backwards. But I ignored all this and immediately dived “head into the pool” - I drove off onto this slippery clay road and below I bumped into a transverse rut from the second road and ... “sat down”. I couldn't get back up on my own. How, in principle, to turn out to the second, breaking a couple of deep ruts. Colleagues passing by helped me, after all, turn onto this road and I drove ... 30 meters to get back into the rut. Then the second group of guys helped me, but again not for long. Now I had already sat down completely, but the worst was ahead - a wet, muddy primer with such full ruts, along which I could not drive on my own. As a result, a "wise" decision was made ... to go to the village for a tractor. About adventures in search of a tractor on this Sunday, when no one is working, I will not paint, so as not to tire the reader.
I can only say that after some three hours my “swallow” was pulled out of the mud captivity by a kind uncle driver in just a “Niva” -2114, and without much effort.
To all these people who helped me in rescuing my car, I would like to express my deep gratitude for their responsiveness! But the mood was already spoiled, the nerves were pretty exhausted and I really didn’t want anything anymore. And, so that the trip would not be completely useless, I decided to "flop" fishing not far from the location of the car - only two hundred meters from the bridge downstream.
Going down to the river, I walked a little along the bank in search of a suitable hole and, coming out from behind the bushes, I saw anglers fishing in a decent hole.

On the river. My neighbours.

After asking permission, I decided to fish next to them. Moreover, as soon as I approached, the man pulled out a small carp. Gradually, communication with a neighbor, the gentle autumn sun peeking out from behind the clouds, the beauty of the surrounding nature and the pecking of the crucian carp warmed my soul and cheered me up. And it does not matter that the size of the fish caught was small, fishing began to give me pleasure. Moreover, I fished with the Diamond-6311 float rod that I loved so much from the last trip, however, now I had to use a height of 5.40 in order to cast farther into the pits under the opposite bank. The rod behaved impeccably: feeling every beat of a fish weighing up to one hundred grams, it did not fight for very long with a copy of three hundred grams. I raised fish and water with my hands, standing ankle-deep in boots in the water, so I had to tire it so that it would not “flutter” in my hands. As a rig, an “Exper” float 2 grams was used in the form of an inverted drop not on the main line 0.143 Trabucco Match Strong, with hook No. The only thing I regretted was that I didn’t have time to make rigs with the same float for size 6.30 for this trip, since almost constantly after casting the rig I had to hold the rod at arm’s length for some time. But interestingly, it wasn't tedious. A dung worm was used as bait, everything else was rejected. The bait was not carried out, as I caught it, moving from one hole to another - and the fish pecked, if not on every posting, then on every second.
After one of the postings, I noticed how on the pits under the opposite bank, first opposite me, and then upstream, after a splash of water, small things scattered like a fan. So I thought: “This is still not enough for me. The predator is on the move. I wonder who? The neighbors began to flash who, who to throw live bait - there was no bite. But on the other hand, on the next swim in the hole, the float suddenly dived sharply under the water and went to the side. “Is it a pike by chance” - a thought flashed through my head. Out of habit, I hooked and felt an elastic heaviness at the other end of the line, which at first somewhat resisted for decency, and then dragged to the side, while pulling the line like a string so that the rod, humming plaintively, bent into an arc not only with the upper two knees, but with all blank. But this did not last long, because in the next instant, the rigging flew out of the water like a lowered arrow ... without a hook. Bringing a stub of fishing line closer to his eyes, he saw that the leash was cut off a centimeter above the hook like a razor. “Toothy” - I thought at that moment, I had no chance to cope with her with a leash of 0.12. But I didn't get too upset. Having tied up the leash, I continued to catch my carp.
Around 16:00, it was decided to finish fishing, so the long road home was still ahead. By that time, my neighbors had already been gone for about an hour, but new anglers arrived, for the evening dawn. The river continued to live its own life. In the end, I still brought home almost two and a half kilograms of crucian carp, the largest of which turned out to be almost three hundred grams. I gave most of it to friends. I fried some and ate it myself. But this is not the main thing, the main thing is the charge of vivacity received from contact with beautiful nature, the pleasure of fighting fish, albeit not large ones, but caught on thin sensitive tackle.

P.S. What was my surprise, mixed with a feeling of annoyance, when a man who came up just before leaving fishing told me the news that he and a friend had caught good crucian carp almost at the mouth of the Abinka today, having driven there on ordinary sixth model Zhiguli.

Abin - a river in the Krasnodar Territory, originates from the northern slopes of the Kotsehur ridge, flows into the Varnavinsky discharge channel (bass of the Kuban river). The origin of the name of the hydronym is not fully understood. Perhaps it goes back to the ancient Meotian ethnikon - the Abuns, who inhabited these places. The district center, Abinsk, was also named after the river (the Abin fortress was built in 1835). It can also be assumed that the name of the toponym contains the Abkhazian abny - "forest" or abaa - "fortress" (Abkh.)

Yenabin tsad - mountain lake in North Ossetia; located in the vicinity of the village of Dzuarikau. The hydronym is translated from Ossetian as "bottomless lake"

ABIN - right tributary. Adagum, 81 km long. It originates on the northern spurs of the Kotsekhur ridge. At present, it flows into the Varnavinsky reservoir. Adyghe form Abyn. The etymology of the word is ambiguous. It can be compared with the Abkhaz abna -, there is a similar and Turkic root ab, meaning. There is another suitable Abkhazian word abaa -. According to archaeologists, the name of the river comes from the word abun - the name of the Meotian tribe. The Abin River gave its name to: the city of Abinsk and the Abinsk region, as well as one of the peaks of the Kotsekhur ridge, 728.5 m high

Abinsk - city ​​and regional center, founded on the site of the Abinsk fortification, built in 1834; in 1854 the Abinsk fortification was abandoned. In 1863, the village of Abinskaya was founded on this site, which in 1962 was transformed into a workers' settlement. A year later, in 1963, it receives the status of a city, which is built on the banks of the Abin River, which gave the settlement its name. The etymology of the name is ambiguous. According to archaeologists, the river got its name from the word - one of the Meotian tribes (Meots - the common name of the tribes of the Eastern and Northern Sea of ​​\u200b\u200bAzov of the early Iron Age). Meots - literally translated into modern language means. The term comes from the ancient name of the Sea of ​​\u200b\u200bAzov - Meotid - Meotida. Some hydronyms are compared with the Abkhaz - or -; others see the Turkic name as the basis -. There is also a comparison of the name of the river with the name of the ancient city of Abunis, marked on the maps of Ptolemy.

LABINSK - A city on the right bank of the Laba River, a regional center. He grew up from the village of Labinskaya, founded in 1841 under the protection of the Makhoshevsky fortification (1840-1846), named after one of the Adyghe tribes (), who lived on the opposite bank of the Laba (see: Bush N. A. Description and main results of the third journey through the Northwestern Caucasus in 1889, Izvestiya of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, vol. 36, St. Petersburg, 1890, pp. 227-238). The Russian name of the city is derived from the Laba River with the help of a very productive derivational suffix (). In the special literature it is indicated that in Adyghe this area (and the settlement that grew up here) are called - a cat's house. (Kokov J.N. Adyghe (Circassian) toponymy. Nalchik. 1974, p. 90).

LABINSK - city, district center; founded as the village of Labinskaya in 1841; in 1947 it was transformed into a city; since 1965 - regional subordination. The city got its name from the Laba River, on the right bank of which it is located. There is no consensus on the history of the origin of the hydronym Laba: from the Adyghe proper name; from ancient Iranian - white; from Indo-European - to flow; from Indo-European - river; from the ancient Turkic - monster, dragon; from Persian - coast; from Nogai - the source of the river; from Abkhazian - lowland pastures; from Yakut - branch, source of the river; in Chuvash - hollow, lowland; in Svan (nationality in Georgia) - source; there is an assumption that the name of the river means.

Ust-Labinsk - city, district center, founded as the village of Ust-Labinskaya (Ustlaba) in 1794; in 1958 it was transformed into a city. It is located on the right bank of the Kuban River, opposite the confluence of the left tributary of the Laba River. Ust-Labinsk is located at the confluence of the largest rivers of the Krasnodar Territory: the Kuban and its left tributary, the Laba. The first part of the city's name is an abbreviation of the word - i.e. the place where a river flows into another river, lake, or sea. In this case, the discrepancy, because the city is not located at the mouth of the Laba River, but opposite it. The city got its name from the river. Labe (see article).

See general.

Abin- a river in the Krasnodar Territory of Russia, the right tributary of the Adagum (the basin of the Kuban River).

Tourism

Jeep tours are organized in the river valley, and fishing is actively carried out. In the Abin area, the number of tourists increased significantly after the increase in interest in the culture of the Adyghes and Shapsugs.

Story

Shapsug tribes began to settle in the river area from the second millennium BC, leaving behind many dolmens that have survived to this day. The largest group is located on the banks of a nameless stream flowing into the Kruchenaya Shchel gorge.

In the 1830s, fortifications were built on the sites of the modern villages of Shapsugskaya and Erivanskaya, as well as the city of Abinsk, which in 1863 would be settled by Cossacks. When relocating families, the government thought that the Abin River would be a good source of irrigation for cultivated lands, but it turned out to be difficult to farm in this area, the inhabitants of Erivan even wrote a letter to Yekaterinodar in 1865 asking for resettlement.

Geography

The Abin River originates from the Kotsekhur ridge. In the upper reaches - a fast river with clear water. At the village of Erivanskaya, it merges with the Mikhale (Erivanka) River, after which it slowly flows through a wide gorge. A dirt road from Erivan to Shapsugskaya runs along the river in this section. At the village of Shapsugskaya, it receives its main tributary Adegoy on the left, as well as a small river Shaparka. Further, without taking large tributaries, the river flows through Abinsk and flows into the Varnavinsky reservoir, becoming a tributary of the Adagum River.

Below the village of Erivan, the river is muddy and highly prone to floods.

Etymology

There are several versions of the origin of the toponym. According to one version, "abin" - from the Abkhazian "abna" - forest. It is also widely believed that the name of the river comes from the name of the Meotian tribe Abun. Also, "abaa" in Abkhazian means "fortress". In addition, in the Turkic language there is a root "ab", denoting a river, water.

The Abin River gave its name to the city of Abinsk - the center of the Abinsk region and one of the peaks of the Kotsekhur ridge.

Water resources

The area is literally cut by small but clean mountain rivers, streams that create picturesque cascades of waterfalls. The Kuban River flows through the territory of the district, on which the Fedorovsky and Tikhovsky hydroelectric facilities were built. The river system is formed by mountain rivers, the largest is the Abin River. Varnavinskoye and Kryukovskoye reservoirs, the waters of which are used for growing rice. The entire area is streaked with a system of waste and connecting canals, the Fedorovsky Main Canal, the Afipsky collector, the Kryukov waste canal. There are 3,087 ha under water, including 474 ha under ponds. The water resources of the Abinsk region are represented by almost their entire set - these are lakes, rivers, reservoirs, ponds, mineral springs, springs. Pond fish farming is developing in the area, on the way to the village. Varnavinskoye has built a complex for growing sturgeon and trout (Akimchenkov, 2008).

There are 13 rivers in the region, including the Kuban: Abin, Bugundyr, Akhtar, Kuafo, Khabl, Zybza, Aushed, Mingrelka, Adegoy, Sosnovaya, etc. The main water artery of the region is the Abin River, the right tributary of the river. Adagum. It originates at the Kotsekhur, flows through the Abinsk region, flows into the reservoir. Varnavinskoe. In the upper water - clean and swift. In the flood - muddy streams sweep away everything in its path. In the city of Abinsk - calm. Length - 81 km, sq. basin 484 km 2. The water of the Abin River and its tributaries has an increased and medium mineralization. On the Khabl River - 35 km long. Located st. Kholmskaya. There are two branches in the lower reaches: one flows into the Dry Aushedz, the second (drying) - into the floodplains of the river valley. Kuban, southeast of the village. Varnavinskoe. The terrain has not undergone any major changes over the past 150 years. Only the character of the main river of the region, the Abin River, has changed. Massive logging and intensive removal of gravel from the banks and from the channel itself left their mark on it. Many springs have disappeared, the river has become shallow, the bottom is heavily silted, especially over the past 40 years. The river flows into the Varnavinskoye reservoir” In winter and spring there are floods [Mamas, 2011].

The Akhtyr River begins on the northern slopes of the Black Sea Range. It pours its waters into the swampy floodplain of the river. Kuban, southeast of the village of Varnavinskoye. Length 30 km.

The Skobido River originates on the northern spurs of the Main Caucasian Range near the Babich Pass. Along the river, along its entire length, there is a road from Aderbievka to Shapsugskaya and a power line. The river has no large tributaries, so it is quite shallow throughout its entire length, only in some places there are holes up to a meter deep. Not far from the village of Shapsugskaya, Skobido flows into the Adegoy River, which is a tributary of the Abin.

River water is used mainly by agricultural production and public utilities - for irrigation, for filling household, fire-fighting ponds, ponds for fish reproduction, for recreation [Report on the state and protection ..., 2014].

On the territory of the Abinsk region there are lakes: Lesnoye, 6 km south of Abinsk and Akhtyrskoye in the valley of the river. Akhtyr, small lakes between the Mingrelka and Sosnovaya rivers.

Ponds x. Vasilevsky, x. Pokrovsky are famous for lotus flowers. An attractive hunting place is the steppe reservoir Borisenkovsky Liman, which is replenished by springs, does not lose the level and freshness of the water, lilies bloom there throughout the year, and there is a lot of game (ducks, geese, swans) (Lotyshev, 2007).

There are many springs in the Abinsk region. More than six dozen of them are known within the boundaries of the Abinsk region. Not all springs known to the locals got on the map. Unfortunately, every fourth spring today is in a deplorable state and is gradually depleted. And only a few of them, mainly on hayfields and near hunting lodges, are constantly maintained in good condition and maintain a normal water regime. Many springs are located in the upper reaches of mountain gorges and form streams flowing in these gorges. Others wedged out from the banks, rivers and streams and constantly feed them. But there are also those that are located in random, at first glance, places and either flow into small lakes, or, having no runoff, form wetlands. Names Silver spring, a spring with living and dead water, and closer to the station. Erivan - Sacred spring. Many residents of Abinsk still remember Morozov's spring (or, as it was often called, Father Frost's spring). It is located halfway from Abinsk to Shapsugskaya behind the Pine Grove camp site, next to the road. Now there is complete desolation, and the spring is living out its last days. It is impossible not to note a whole group of springs in the Razdery tract, where the Udegei River flows into the Adegoi [Tikhomirov, 1987].

In the flat part of the region there are 2 reservoirs: Kryukovskoye and Varnavinskoye and a connecting channel - a favorite place for fishermen (Figure 3). The Varnavinsky reservoir is located 10 km west of Abinsk, on the former Abinsk estuary. The area of ​​the water mirror is 45 km 2, the capacity is 40 million m 3, it is intended for the accumulation of flood waters of Abin, Adagum, Psebeps, which previously overflowed and swamped the floodplain of the river. Kuban. It is used for irrigation of the lands of the Abinsk and Crimean regions.

The Kryukovka discharge channel is located in the eastern part of the Trans-Kuban region near the village. Mikhailovsky. The area is 43 km 2, the capacity is 111 million m 3. It is intended for the accumulation of flood waters of mountain rivers: Il, Khabl, Akhtyr, Bugundyr, which previously overflowed.

A special place in recreational resources is occupied by mineral springs, which have the most valuable medicinal value. Groundwater reserves have not been fully explored. Water-bearing are loams, sands from fine-grained to uneven-grained quartz, often with inclusions of pebbles, occurring in the form of interlayers with a thickness of 1 to 20 m. The number of such interlayers varies from 2-3 to 6-7. The total thickness of aquifers varies from 1 to 52 m, with a maximum thickness of the aquifer complex of 120 m. The depth of the aquifer varies from 0.2 to 40 m. Self-flowing water is very rarely observed. Water resources also include the source of iodine-bromine waters in the village of Akhtyrsky [Report on the state of nature management ..., 2012]. The location of the water bodies of the Abinsk district, which were mentioned earlier, is shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3 - Map-scheme of water bodies of the Abinsk region