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Artek was the All-Union and international camp in the Soviet Union. It was established on June 16,1925 near the sea in the town of Gurzuf. The camp first hosted eighty children but it grew rapidly. In 1969 it had an area of 3.2 km², there were 150 buildings, three medical buildings, a school, film studio Artekfilm, three swimming pools, sports stadium (7000 seats), playgrounds for other activities.

This tour will introduce you to the life and the works of the famous Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. You can see on the Embankment the Chekhov statue and the statue of a Lady with a Little Dog, the personage of Chekhov's story of the same name.

Above the spring a church to be discovered - a monument to the past, a church in a cave - there is that kined of Christian temple among many others in the Crimean Riviera. Their architacture is varied: Byzantine, Russian, Gothic, ancient. The history of many of the Orthodox Christian churches is inter-twined with the great dynasty of the Tsars, the Romanovs.

Leading center for astrophysical research, located at Simeiz in south Crimea, between Sevastopol and Yalta, and operated by the Russian Academy of Sciences. Its principal instruments are a 2.6-meter (102-inch) optical telescope, a 22-meter (72-foot) radio telescope used for observations in the millimeter-wave region, and a solar telescope.

The monument of architecture of beginnings of XX century - ex-palace of Bukhara's emir in Yalta is erected in 1907-1911. The author of project Tarasov used the plastic methods and decorative elements of moslem architecture of countries of Northern Africa. The two-floor building is characterizing with the asymmetric composition, combination of rectangular, faceted and half-round volumes, porticos and terraces. The light carving of columns with refined capitals, balustrades, frames of horseshoe-shaped windows and cogged parapet over cornice looks well dressed on background of whitestone walls.

The Tsar's Path or the Solnechnaya Tropa is a scenic walking path that runs along the edge of the Crimean Mountains near the city of Yalta, in southern Ukraine. The path starts out at the Livadia Palace and runs west to its finish at the Swallow's Nest in nearby Gaspra.

Ai-Petri is a peak in the Crimean Mountains. For administrative purposes it is in the Yalta municipality of Crimea. Ai-Petri is one of the windiest places in Ukraine. The wind blows for 125 days a year, reaching a speed of 50 m/s (110 mph). The peak is located above the city of Alupka and the town of Koreiz.

Charax is the largest Roman military settlement excavated in the Crimea. It was sited on a four-hectare area at the western ridge of Ai-Todor, close to the modern tourist attraction of Swallow's Nest.

The " Kichkine ” Palace (from the Persian word for a baby) was built between 1908 and 1911 on Cape Ai-Todor in Gaspra by three brothers Trasov - local architect, designer, furniture manufacturer.

Dulber is a palace in Koreiz, near Yalta in the Crimea. The palace of Grand Duke Peter Nicolaievich of Russia, known as Dulber (dülber is Crimean Tatar for "beautiful"), is an asymmetrical architectural extravanganza with crenellated walls, silver domes, and more than 100 rooms, inspired by the Mameluk architecture of 15th-century Cairo. This palace was built between 1895 and 1897.

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