The Parus Rock is a natural monument in the Krasnodar Territory located on the Black Sea coast, 17 km south-east of Gelendzhik, near the village of Praskoveevka.
The rock is a vertical layer of sandstone standing on the seashore, separated from the main rock mass by a dip. The shape of the rock resembles the outline of a quadrangular sail, for which it received its name. When the thickness of the rock is about a meter, the height is more than 25 meters, and the length is more than 20, while the rock is more than three-fourths out in the sea perpendicular to the coast. The coast itself is quite steep and composed of alternating layers of yellow sandstone and dark shale, which look very impressive from the sea. And above them stretches green Dzhanhotsky boron, overgrown with Pitsunda pine. It stretches for several kilometers from Divnomorskoye to the Praskoveevsky crack and is also a natural monument. Dzhankhotsky Bor has an area of ​​950 hectares and is considered to be the largest massif in the country, where relict trees listed in the Red Book of Russia are preserved.
At a height of about 2.5 meters in the Sail Rock there is a through hole, the origin of which is unclear. According to one version, it appeared in 1903 as a result of artillery shelling. Sailors shot four times in a lonely rock from the battleship. One shell pierced through a layer of sandstone, while others left noticeable potholes on it.