The Laspi Pass (Ласпинский перевал) (350m) is the highest point of the Sevastopol- Yalta (South Coast) highway in the Crimea along the former route H19 renamed as 67K-1. It is located where the route enters the Yalta wooden mountain reserve near village of Tylove. The

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offers views of

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and Laspi Bay of the Black Sea, situated just 700 meters to the south. It is dominated by a cliff named after

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, a Russian writer who helped build the road. Another attraction is an

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chapel commemorating the bimillennium of Christ's birth. The pass is sometimes confused with the Baydar Gate, a mountain pass seldom used today.

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