Spring "Natasha" in Gelendzhik is an amazing natural monument, located at the Mikhailovsky pass. Today, this amazingly beautiful place is a cultural and entertainment complex. Artificial waterfalls, flowing into a dam, Creek, ennobled wild stone bridges over the water and comfortably furnished gazebo will not leave anyone indifferent. Guests visiting the spring, can not only be seen floating in the backwaters sturgeon and trout, but catch them himself.

At the foot of spring is a sculpture of a girl holding a jug, from which pours clear spring water. The water is very tasty and cold. This girl is the very Natasha, whose name and was named to the spring.

The legend of spring "Natasha" today can hear everyone who visits it. It tells of how one day the Turkish Pasha saw in the Caucasus amazing beauty girl named Natasha. Was it Russian or Ukrainian girl – history is silent. Pasha much fell in love with the girl and decided to make her in his harem 301 wife. It should be noted that in addition to the wives of the Pasha still had 500 concubines. Natasha, who in their native land had a fiance, refused the Turkish Pasha. Disagreeing with the decision of a charming girl, he ordered his soldiers to bring her no matter what. Natasha realized that resistance is futile, so I asked Pasha's permission for the last time to climb the mountain in order to see once again in the direction of their homeland and pray. Pasha has fulfilled her last wish. Accompanied soldiers Natasha went up on the mountain and began to pray. Choosing a moment when the guards were distracted, she rushed from the mountain. Angry warriors Pasha, ordered them to take him there, where lies the body of his beloved. When the Pasha looked down, he saw that the girl's body disappeared, and in its place a flowing spring, which began to bear the name of the poor girl.

Pure water from this spring is filled with the magical power of love. No wedding in Gelendzhik goes by without the sounds of spring "Natasha" and next to him the chapel of St. Sergius of Radonezh.