The web camera online broadcasts the farm Lunar glade in the tourist-recreational complex "Arkhyz". The lunar meadow is located at an altitude of 1987 meters above sea level. On the one hand it is limited to the Abisher-Ahuba range (maximum height of 3173 m). At the top of the north, right above the Lunar Field is the Fedoseev Pass (1A, 3020 m), and from the south the area of the glade is contoured by the "Romantic" tourist base (mark 1658 m above sea level).
Located in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic's Selenchuk region, Archyz is the launching pad of the North Caucasus Tourist Cluster. Since the commissioning in December 2013, the resort has become a popular holiday destination for tourists from the Southern and North Caucasus Federal District and other regions of Russia: the resort has been visited by about a million guests.
More than a million guests have visited the resort since 2013. The tourist flow at the "Arkhyz" GTRK in 2019 amounted to more than 370,000 people, there was an increase in the number of guests compared to 2018 figures by 29%. Sociological studies record a high rate of return tourist flow to the resort - it is 59%; more than half of holidaymakers plan to return to the resort in winter, and a third of tourists - in the summer. The main share of the tourist flow to the resort are holidaymakers from the Stavropol region and The Rostov region, as well as from the Krasnodar region, Volgograd region and Moscow.
More than 36% of holidaymakers come to the resort in the company of friends, but most guests traditionally choose "Archyz" for family holidays - the share of such tourists is 46%. This is a consequence of the friendly and positive atmosphere in the resort, its "openness" to children and beginners in skating. "Arkhyz" is the best choice for getting acquainted with skiing: here tourists are waiting for "calm" mountains with a comfortable height difference, a variety of trails with high-quality snow cover, a beginner's area with a separate chairlift, a children's town and 2.5 kilometers of pistes, which work evening skating. There is one of the best ski instructors in Russia, whose employees are specially trained to train beginners. The Dream Ski program for children and adults with autism, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy and visual impairment is being implemented, which allows to speed up the process of treatment, rehabilitation and socialization of people with disabilities. Charitable ski lessons "Skiing is called!" for schoolchildren in the nearest resort villages are held.
In just two tourist villages of the resort - Romantic and Lunar glade - at the beginning of the ski season 2019/2020, which started in early December, four cable cars (two gondola and two chairlifts) with a capacity of 9,100 people per hour, were opened about 25 km of tracks of all categories of complexity. This season, the third stage of the Northern Lights cable car, which takes guests to the landing station at an altitude of 2504 meters and a gentle ski area for beginners with panoramic views of the south-oriented slope and two tracks - "green" and "blue" - began for tourists. A snow park has also opened at the resort.