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Папа Q at Russian Wikipedia · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Папа Q at Russian Wikipedia · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
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Ayu-Dag, the Bear Mountain

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A volcano that never happened on Crimea's south coast: the magma rose but never broke out and set as a dome. From the sea the mountain reads as an enormous bear drinking. A Crimean legend takes that literally — the leader of a bear pack turned to stone, punished for trying to drink the sea dry rather than let a runaway girl go. Remains of a medieval monastery and fortifications survive on it, and the magnetic field in places pulls a compass off true.

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