One of the most characteristic and most picturesque landscape monuments of the Crimea - a mountain that resembles the silhouette of a cat get ready to pounce. Russian name derived from the Tatar Kosh-kaia - Falcon mountain. This large limestone massif altitude 254 meters was formed about a million years ago, had broken away from the main ridge of the Crimean yaylinskogo ridge and gradually moved up the slope to the sea. In ancient times this natural barrier separating the southern coast, has been added to the rupture of a stone wall. On the plateau of the mountain found the remains of the Taurus settlement Limen-Isar (8-1 cc. BC) with fragments of buildings and defense walls, and a large necropolis.