Website/Catalog  (2017)  
 
Novinka.....Flowering in Crimea starts approximately in the second half of May, a week before the blooming of 'Krymskaya Krasnaya'

Website/Catalog  (2016)  
 
'Krymskaya Krasnaya' or 'Krasnaya Roza' - is the first domestic variety for essential rose oil. This rose was considerably improved by the State Nikita Botanical Garden via individual and mass selection. Large bush with strong root system and branches, up to 1.5-2 m tall, and more. All branches are covered with short brown bristles and few prickles of different sizes, curved downwards. Leaves on long pedicels, mostly 5-7 leaflets, ovate-rounded, quite large, ...dark green above, glabrous, blue-green below. Large blooms, double, about 60 petals on long peduncles, collected in terminal clusters of 5-9, sometimes up to 15 blooms. The number of blooms on an adult bush attains 800-1000 and more, each bloom weighing 2 to 5 grams. The petals are bright red... Fruit is not very fleshy, brownish-red oval-elongated. Blooms from May to June.

Book  (1964)  Page(s) 490.  
 
Year 1926. G. K. Gun'ko obtained in the Nikitsky Garden Rosarium the first Soviet variety Krymskaya Krasnaya rose (R. gallica L.). Currently more than 90% of plantations in the Soviet Union are with this sort.