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The article draws attention to the perception and description of the geographical and climatic conditions of Abkhazia, and the passes through the Caucasus Range by Felix Yakovlevich Lisovsky. Expelled from the Vilnius University, he was exiled to the Caucasus in 1828. Of the approximately 24 years that he was in service, 15 of them were spent in Abkhazia, including from 1837 to 1841 as a bailiff of Tsebelda. His knowledge of topographic surveying was used by the military authorities in the Caucasus, due to which his notes on the transition through the Stanovoy Range to the Caucasian Line appeared, with maps that contained detailed descriptions of the routes he took. At the same time, he noted the geographical location of settlements, the distance between them and the quality of roads, and gave a description of the population and the scope of its activities. Below are short fragments from the descriptions of nature; they are bright and fascinating, and characterize Lisovsky as a talented man with an excellent command of the literary language. His notes also contain ethnographic material, for example, about the population and their religious beliefs, which are also detailed and, of course, are of great interest to specialists.