Novyy Afon
Novyy Afon is a railway station in Abkhazia, Georgia. Novyy Afon is situated nearby to the village Tsukwara.- Type: Railway station
- Description: railway station
- Also known as: “New Athos” and “Novy Afon”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include New Athos Cave and New Athos Monastery.
New Athos Cave
Cave
Photo: WomEOS, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The New Athos Cave also Novoafonskaya, Novy Afon Cave, or New Afon Cave is a karst cave in the Iverian Mountain in Abkhazia near the city of New Athos. New Athos Cave is situated 2½ km northwest of Novyy Afon.
New Athos Monastery
Monastery
Photo: Evcamp, CC BY-SA 4.0.
New Athos Monastery is a monastery in New Athos, municipality of Gudauta, in a breakaway republic of Abkhazia. New Athos Monastery was founded in 1875 by monks who came from the St. Panteleimon Monastery in Mount Athos, with Mount Athos having been an important site for the Orthodox Church since 1054. New Athos Monastery is situated 1½ km northwest of Novyy Afon.
Anacopia Fortress
Photo: Halavar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Anakopia Fortress is an ancient military citadel in New Athos in the disputed Abkhazia, Georgia located some 22 km by road along the coast from Sukhumi. Anacopia Fortress is situated 3 km northwest of Novyy Afon.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include New Athos and Tsukwara.
New Athos
Photo: Svetlana Grechkina, CC BY-SA 2.0.
New Athos or Akhali Atoni is a town in the Gudauta Municipality of Abkhazia situated some 22 km from Sokhumi by the shores of the Black Sea. The town was previously known under the greek names Nikopol, Acheisos, Anakopia, Nikopia, Nikofia, Nikopsis, Absara, and later Psyrtskha. New Athos Cave is one of Abkhazia's tourist attractions.
Tsukwara
Village
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Tsukwara is a village, which is situated 6 km west of Novyy Afon.
Eshera
Village
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Eshera is a village in the Sukhumi District in Abkhazia, Georgia. It is a climatic-balneotherapeutic resort on the Black Sea coast, at the right side of Gumista river. Eshera is situated 9 km southeast of Novyy Afon.
Novyy Afon
- Categories: station and transportation
- Location: Abkhazia, Georgia, Caucasus, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.08116° or 43° 4′ 52″ northLongitude
40.83841° or 40° 50′ 18″ eastOperator
Аҧсны АиҳаамҩаNetwork
Аҧсны АиҳаамҩаOpen location code
8HM23RJQ+F9OpenStreetMap ID
node 506660194OpenStreetMap feature
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railway=stationWikidata ID
Q4326567
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In Other Languages
From Abkhazian to Russian—“Novyy Afon” goes by many names.
- Abkhazian: “Афон Ҿыц (астанциа)”
- Abkhazian: “Афон Ҿыц”
- French: “Nouvel Athos”
- French: “Nouvelle Athos”
- Georgian: “ახალი ათონი”
- German: “Nowy Afon”
- Russian: “Новый Афон”
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