Webcam overlooking the territory of the so-called "Frrog" in Dombay.
This is a training slope for beginner skiers. The lens includes an equipment rental point with tables and benches. The ski slope is visible behind. In real time, you can watch what is happening in the popular resort.
Climbing on Dombai is not only a sport and entertainment, but also a serious test for physical and spiritual endurance.
Mountains are able to lure someone who watches Dombai webcams online. The famous resort in the Caucasus Mountains attracts tourists from all over the world. However, in addition to sports, Dombai is also the center of amateur song and bard culture. The bardic movement on Dombay was associated with hiking and mountaineering. This subculture appeared in the USSR in the 1960s and was popular until the end of the 1980s. At that time, many poets appeared who wrote and performed their own songs. They sang the courage and perseverance of the pioneers, as well as romantic friendship and admiration of nature.
Festivals of amateur songs were regularly held on Dombay, gathering bards and lovers of this genre from all over the country.
One of the most famous festivals is the Dombai Waltz, which hosted guests every summer. There were times when every teenager who had a guitar and learned three or four chords imagined himself a conqueror of mountain peaks. The songs of Bulat Okudzhava, Yuri Vizbor, Alexander Galich, Vladimir Vysotsky were sung in tents and around forest fires. Many amateur authors composed their own songs, performing with them on a semi-professional stage. However, the most valuable was precisely the performance in the circle of friends. The names of Novella Matveeva, Mikhail Ancharov, Alexander Gorodnitsky thus entered the golden fund of Russian poetry.
One of the most popular bards in Dombai was Yuri Kukin, who moved to Dombai permanently and even worked as a guide.
He wrote many songs, which were then released on vinyl records (since there was no other sound carrier then). However, for personal needs, people used bulky tape recorders with round reel-to-reel cassettes, and it was they who preserved the voices of the first bards in the atmosphere of home concerts. Yuri Kukin's guitar sounded in the Alibek mountaineering camp, on the Dombay-Ulgen and Mussa-Chitara mountains. It echoed in the Sufruju gorge and on the Semenev-Bashi ridge. For those who joined the tourist movement of that time, these concerts served as a source of relaxation and filled the soul.
Now Dombay is positioned as a ski resort, and the old climbing romance is a thing of the past. There are fewer and fewer enthusiastic amateurs who know the trails. The guitar sounds less and less around the fires. But who knows, maybe the new romantics will still put on backpacks and throw a guitar over their shoulders. Before leaving the house, they can be recommended to watch Dombay's webcams online.