Stankevich Pine Tree and Sudak Valley on Sokol Mount in Novy Svet

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Beautiful Stankevich pine tree growing on a steep slope of Sokol (Falcon) mountain in background of a valley where located Sudak city. Such pine trees are very rare in nature, but they are endemic to the Sudak district on the southern coast of the Crimea peninsula. First described by the Russian botanist Stankevich, the pines were named by the academic V. N. Sukachev in 1906 in his honor. They are also known as “Sudak Pines”- after the region in which they are found.

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Keywords: crimea, crimean, hiking, landscapes, mountain, mountains, nature, novy, pine, russia, sokol, stankevich, sudak, svet, trees