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Gorge Gorelnik North Tien-Shan.

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The name received the gorge of Gorelnik to the strong fire which Kuygen-Sai destroyed in upper courses of the narrow gorge the fir forest, after that it received the name "Gorelnik". The name Gorelnik explain "the burned ravine" from the Kazakh Kuygensay.
The name Gorelnik (Kuygensay) received after big wildfire which in the early thirties on imprudence cadets of frontier school arranged here. However the place-name origin from the Kazakh kuygan - "falling" is more plausible (so call the mouth of the rivers or the place of merge of two rivers).
The river Burnt forest flows in Zailiyskiy Ala-Tau, by Small Almatinka inflow. Length of 5,8 km (on other these 7,8 km), the area of a reservoir 12 square kilometers. In the mouth of the Burnt forest there is a warm hydrosulphuric source (temperature of 22 degrees, 80 thousand liters a day) dated for a crack in biotitovy granites.
Because of a specific hydrosulphuric smell of water before revolution the river had the name the Rotten stream.
In the gorge two falls. The lower falls - near the mouth (approximately in 1 km from it), in line with the Burnt forest. The top falls - in 1,5 - 2 km from lower, in line with the right inflow of the Burnt forest. In upper courses of the Gorelnik there are small thin lakes.
Tourists are arrive at the Small Almatin Gorge by passing the landslide barrier up to the Gorelnik River mouth. The walking part of the trip starts there. The Gorelnik River is the major left tributary of the Small Almatinka River, its length is 7,8 km.
The mountain stream of the Gorelnik River runs into the Small Almatinka River at 1900 meters above sea level, 3 km from the high-mountain ice rink. A hydrogen-sulphide radon source is the first item of interest on the way.
The path, following the river in the gorge, brings you to a gorge.
It lakes a River many thousands of years to make a deep gorge in a range of mountains. The grey granite cliffs rise ten meters on both sides. The mountain stream rapidly cascades and falls with a roar down 10 meters, spraying in a cloud of droplets.
The lower Gorelnik River waterfall appears before tourists in all its magnificence: its rivulets play witli all the colours.

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Alexander Petrov.