Ridge Big Bitch. How to get there, photos, coordinates How to get to the southern part of the Bolshaya Suka ridge

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The Bolshaya Suka ridge runs through the Chelyabinsk region, not far from Bakal, stretches from SW to NE in the upper right bank of the river. Yuryuzan, its length is about 20 km, heights - over 1000 m. The most significant peaks from north to south: g. 1102 m, g. 1139.6 m, g. 1080 m, g. 1194 m (the highest point of Big Suka), 1130 m, 1105 m, 1168 m, Sands (1054 m), Mal. Fall (1006.7 m).

There are four versions of the origin of the oronim SukA. The interpretation is derived from the Tatar "bitch" - "plow", the Bashkir "suki" - "hill", "pointed peak" and the Bashkir "suuk" - "cold". According to another version - from the word "sukan" - "bow". That is SukA is an onion ridge. Indeed, a lot of wild garlic, "bear's onion" grows on Suk. Yes, and on old maps the ridge is designated exactly as Sukan.

An interesting observation is made by the well-known toponymist of the Urals, A.K. Matveev: "... Russian residents from the village of Tyulyuk call the ridge Suka, motivating it by the fact that there are very inconvenient places for walking ..." I must say that this is really so. Most of the ridge consists of narrow rocky ridges along which every now and then you have to climb.

The Bolshaya Suka ridge abounds in rocks, cliffs, ledges and steep faults. But in the northern part of it there is a vast tundra mountain plateau. Practically flat, offering beautiful panoramic views of the nearby mountains.

The ridge is interesting as a weekend object. It is convenient to combine his visit with a visit to the Fountain at the source of the Malaya Satka River, as well as the Uvan, Nurgush and Zyuratkul ridges. From the point of view of the excursion, the road leading from the village of Katavka to the village of Sibirka, through the Shoulder Pass of Bolshoi Suki, is interesting. It is also called the Siberian Pass. There are few other places in the Southern Urals that there is such a simple road to a height of a thousand meters, with the exception, perhaps, of the road leading to the top of Mount Dunan-Songgan. But more on that in another article. Just a couple of kilometers along the road from Katavka and climb a little from the pass along the kurums, to the right or to the left.

It is worth noting that if you are interested in local history and ethnography, communication with the old inhabitants of the Katavki village will be very informative. Philologists attribute the Katavian dialect to a separate dialect.

And the self-name of the Katavites is shmat. When I have to visit Katavka, I try with great pleasure to communicate with local grandfathers or grandmothers. You will not hear such an interesting and original speech anywhere else!

You can get to Bolshaya Suka along the federal highway M5 "Ural", turning from the highway to the village of Katavka, which is located under the very ridge. I must say that the road itself on the pass approaches almost to the kurums that run down the slopes of Bolshaya Suka. It is convenient to reach the southern end of the ridge by the road from the city of Yuryuzan to the village of Tyulyuk, reaching the meadow, where the village of Petropavlovka used to be, and from it along the old timber road and along the path upward.

The name for the Russian ear is quite euphonious, if you put the stress correctly. It is placed on the last syllable. The word "bitches" in Bashkir means "peak", "crest". It is possible that the origin is connected with the word "syuyk" or "suuk" - "cold," chilly. It is really always not hot at the top, and in the cold season it can be quite extreme. However, there is another version of the name, from the Türkic word "su" - water, where the second syllable indicates its negation. This option also reveals the features of this corner, where in the daytime with fire you can not find not only a stream, but also a littering fontanelle.

This ridge is perfectly visible from the M5 highway in the area where this highway approaches the town of Bakal and the suburban village of Katavka. The most convenient place for the assault begins from Katavka. A well-packed path goes to the mountains from the village through the spruce taiga. Soon, it soars up rather steeply and takes tourists to the saddle of the Bolshaya Suka ridge, to one of its most picturesque corners, where the outlier rocks are located. Among them, one is called the Bear Stone. The view from above is simply mesmerizing. You can see the city of Bakal with its mines, and the Shuida ridge, aside the cities of Yuryuzan and Trekhgorny are distinguishable.

If you cross the saddle and continue walking along the same road, then after descending from the ridge, it will lead to the famous "Boiling Spring" at the sources of the Malaya Satka River, and then to the equally famous fountain at the sources of the Bolshaya Kalagaza River. There is a place for picnics and spending the night, where the ascent to the neighboring mountain - Uvan begins. This mountain is sometimes called Little Bitch.

The Bolshaya Suka ridge stretches from southwest to northeast for 27 kilometers. Its highest sections are located just from the edges, they exceed 1100 meters. The highest point is 1195 meters. Outwardly, the relief resembles an uneven sheer wall made of gray-green bricks. This is because the slopes are covered with stone rivers - kurumniks. Their boulders are densely overgrown with green lichens, almost hiding the color of the rock. The stones, as a rule, are slippery and dancing underfoot, so it is more comfortable to climb where there are thickets of mosses, as well as relatively rare trees, between the stones. Lonely spruces and birches grow among the stone placers. Larch is also quite common.

In winter, the ascent is not easy because of the deep, abundant snow, which also hides the gaps between the stones. But in early winter, on the rocky outcrops, you can admire numerous bizarre icicles. They were formed from the fact that rocks continue to give off the heat accumulated over the summer. The Bolshaya Suka ridge is one of the favorite places of the rector of CSPU Vladimir Sydyrin, who grew up in these parts.

Pass: Shoulder Bolshoi SukI. 2011

We have a very friendly and athletic family !!! We really love the nature of our native land and, whenever possible, try to get out of the house into the mountains every weekend)))) !!! Easy enough pass for children and an interesting name. And what came of it - see below !!!

There are three versions of the origin of Oronim SukA. The interpretation is derived from the Tatar "bitch" - "plow", the Bashkir "suki" - "hill" and the Bashkir "suuk" - "cold". The third version seems to be the most probable. A curious observation is made by the well-known toponymist of the Urals, A. K. Matveev: “... Russian residents from the village of Tyulyuk call the ridge Suka, motivating it by the fact that there are very inconvenient places for walking ...” I must say that this is really so. Most of the ridge consists of narrow rocky ridges along which every now and then you have to climb.

View of Bolshaya SukU from Katavka village. From where our journey to the pass began.

From the point of view of the excursion, the road leading from the village of Katavka to the village of Sibirka, through the Plecho pass, Bolshaya Suki is interesting. Few places elsewhere in the Southern Urals have such a simple road to a height of a thousand meters. This is what we need with a 6 year old child !!!

Let's start with the fact that the ascent to the pass itself is picturesque.

I climbed the ridge Big Bitch once. And our way to the ridge, as I understand it now, was very non-standard.
First, our guide Ivan Susanin was leading us. So it was written on his T-shirt and he in all seriousness claimed that his name was Vanya, and his surname was Susanin, and being a guide in the Ural taiga was his vocation. I hope you understand what feelings took possession of me when, in the company of our German financial director, my beloved nephew and a 17-year-old German boy who came to practice in Russia and for whose safety his father personally instructed me to answer, I approached to the shore of the for some reason stormy Zyuratkul and saw a rusty trough, which Ivan Susanin called a motor boat. However, there was a motor.
Secondly, we had to melt to the other side of the Zyuratkul in a rusted trough (well, yes, this was a boat with a motor, according to Ivan Susanin) in two shifts of 4 people each across a very restless lake that day. In general, at that moment the waves seemed to me like the sea.
By the way, the trip turned out to be surprisingly simple. First, we walked along a beautiful forest path, along which frogs were racing with us. Then the trail went uphill, but we walked along it at a brisk pace, not particularly bothering. And only the last 100 meters slightly climbed over the stones in the dense forest. All the time I looked around and looked for traces of Baba Yaga, she definitely had to live in this windbreak.
And then an incredible space opened up.

Big Bitch Valeria Kuznetsova

“Better than mountains can only be mountains that I haven’t been to yet.
Old, beaten? But this is true!
Mountains take yours: soul, heart, liver ... You cannot live without another dose of mountains. Mountains ... They are somewhere "... reign in the distance and insanely beautiful in themselves ...".
But if you really want to, then you can find mountains very close to the house (with Ufa). Real thousanders, with mountain taiga and gray tongues of kurums, cutting into the taiga. With ruins of outlier rocks, the smell of rhododendron and insane views of all five corners of the world. You will say that the world has four ends. I will say that there is a fifth, just in case, when all the interesting things do not fit in four.

Such mountains, of course, are the Bolshaya Suka ridge. Rocky, peaked, all bristling with peaks. And although the emphasis in the word "Bitch" is on the last syllable, sometimes, when you move along the traverse of the ridge, no, no, and another native Russian word will escape either from the chest, or from under the feet. Yes, and the echo, out of habit, will roll out loudly: mother, mother, mother ...
Good on the bitch and close. Only 200 km from Oktyabrya Avenue of the city of Ufa. This circumstance allows you to drive to "real mountains" in just a day and come back. What we do regularly.
We go to Suka only twice a year, in spring and autumn. Usually in the fall, at the end of September, you always run into snow. Therefore, this year we decided to go there early and everyone is happy - we caught good weather, wonderful views. And the next lucky ones got their dose of mountains, which is so necessary for health.

For those who in the near future will have withdrawal symptoms and an urgent need for the mountains, I will inform you that while the weather is quite normal, we will have the following outings for one day:
September 15, South Ural Nature Reserve, Nara ridge
September 16, Mount Bakhmur and the stone river closest to Ufa
September 22, South Ural Nature Reserve, Mount Bolshoi Shelom
September 23, Mount Kurtash and Blue Rocks
September 29, South Ural Nature Reserve, Mount Dunan Suigan
September 30, Raspberry Mountain

A little about the ridge Big Bitch

The Bolshaya Suka ridge is located in the Chelyabinsk region, not far from Bakal, stretching from SW to NE from the right bank of the Yuryuzan River, its length is about 20 km, most of the peaks are more than 1000 m. The highest points from north to south: 1102 m, g. 1139.6 m, g. 1080 m, g. 1194 m (the highest point of the Big Suka), g. 1130 m, g. 1105 m, g. 1168 m, the town of Sands (1054 m), the town of Mal. Fall (1006.7 m).

Valery Kuznetsov:
“There are four versions of the origin of Oronim SukA.
The interpretation is derived from the Tatar "bitch" - "plow", the Bashkir "suki" - "hill", "pointed peak" and the Bashkir "suuk" - "cold". According to another version - from the word "sukan" - "bow". That is SukA is an onion ridge. Indeed, a lot of wild garlic, "bear's onion" grows on Suk. Yes, and on old maps the ridge is designated exactly as Sukan.
An interesting observation is made by the well-known toponymist of the Urals, A.K. Matveev: "... Russian residents from the village of Tyulyuk call the ridge Suka, motivating it by the fact that there are very inconvenient places for walking ..." I must say that this is really so. Most of the ridge consists of narrow rocky ridges, which every now and then have to climb. "
Along the entire length of the Bolshaya Suka ridge, there are many rocks, outliers, and ledges. In the southern part of the ridge, there is a large tundra mountain plateau. The plateau is almost flat, offering a beautiful panoramic view of the nearby mountains.

How to get there?

To get to the Siberian pass of the Big Suki ridge, you need to get to the village of Katavka. The settlement of Katavka was founded in 1843 by settlers from the Katav mine and the Katav-Ivanovsky plant and was first called Novo-Katavskaya. The settlement arose together with other workers' settlements near the Bakal mines being developed to serve them. Currently, the village is home to about 250 people.
From the village of Katavka, you need to go east along a dirt road, gradually gaining height. The road is damp and seems to lie in a narrow, shady spruce-fir corridor. The trail is often crossed by clear and cold streams with spring water. When the taiga ends, you will see an open space with kurums, freestanding quartzite outliers and a clearing on one of the peaks of the Bolshaya Suka ridge, which is called Lysaya. This is the Siberian Pass, located at an altitude of about 1000 m above sea level. At the pass, you can turn to the south-west along a barely noticeable path, along the kurums on the right, bypassing the rocky outlier - Devil's finger. In some places there are markings on the trees. Behind the rocky outlier, gradually gaining height, you can climb towards the peak B. Suka (1194m). After climbing to the top, you can return to the road to Sibirka.
The settlement of Sibirka was founded in 1779. Included in the Satka urban settlement. The name is associated with the nearby Old Siberian tract. According to the 2010 census, 128 people lived in the village. The village is located on the left bank of the river. Malaya Satka, 32 km from the regional center, surrounded by the mountain ranges Moskal, Bolshaya Suka, Uvan. Previously, the main occupation of the inhabitants was logging and coal burning for the Satka iron-smelting plant. After 1941, the blast furnaces of the plant were switched to another type of fuel, and coal burning was stopped. In 1967, a power line was laid from Bakal to the village, an eight-year school was built, which worked until 1980.
At present, the village is home to the Visit Center of the Zyuratkul National Park. In the vicinity of the village there are 2 tourist routes: Zyuratkul - Sibirka (20 km), Sibirka - Mount B. Uvan (12 km, radial ascent). In 7 km there are attractions: "Boiling key" and "Fountain".

Valery Kuznetsov:
“It is worth noting that if you are interested in local history and ethnography, communication with the old inhabitants of the Katavki village will be very informative. Philologists attribute the Katavian dialect to a separate dialect.
And the self-name of the Katavites is shmat. When I have to visit Katavka, I try with great pleasure to communicate with local grandfathers or grandmothers. You will not hear such an interesting and original speech anywhere else! "

How to get to the southern part of the Bolshaya Suka ridge?

It is convenient to reach the southern end of the ridge by the road from the city of Yuryuzan to the village of Tyulyuk, reaching the meadow, where the village of Petropavlovka used to be, and from it along the old timber road and along the path upward. However, look for a guide.

Photo by Valery Kuznetsov and Igor Akhromenko from the Gorny Shurale group.