Sudak or Sudaq is a small historic town located in Crimea, Ukraine situated 57 km (35 mi) to the west of Feodosiya (the nearest railway station) and 104 km (65 mi) to the east of Simferopol, the capital of Crimea. Today it is a popular resort, best known for its Genoese fortress, the best preserved on the northern shore of the Black Sea.

Balaklava is a former city on the Crimean peninsula and part of the city of Sevastopol which carried a special administrative status in Ukraine, but is now part of Russia. It was a city in its own right until 1957 when it was formally incorporated into the municipal borders of Sevastopol by the Soviet government. It also is an administrative center of Bakalava Raion that is used be part of the Crimean Oblast before it was transferred under the Sevastopol Municipality.

The fortress of Cembalo is located atop Kastron mountain in the south-east coast of the Bay of Balaklava, 12 km far from the historical center of the city of Sevastopol. Nowadays, modern Balaklava is a district of the present Sevastopol offering a beautiful site of the Crimean seashore with specific climate and landscapes, as well as interesting historical monuments.

The Kara-dag reserve on the coast of Crimea, between the village of Kurortnoye and the resort of Koktebel, is one of those places where, whatever your religion, you can feel the hand of the Creator at work. Indescribably beautiful, this unique Jurassic landscape is the result of an extinct volcano, which thousands of years ago spewed lava and debris into the sea. The elements have weathered the volcanic rocks into fantastic shapes and produced flora and wildlife unique to this part of Crimea.

The fortress of Kalamita or Inkerman is located in the estuary of Chernaya (Russian for "black") river, on the plateau of Monastyrskaya Skala ("monastery cliff" in Russian). In the 6th century, a Byzantine fortification was erected there and garrisoned with local dwellers, similarly to what happened in the other sites of the mountainous part of the Crimea.

The Swan Islands (Sari-Bulat) are situated on the Northern-Western beaches of the plain Crimea at a distance of 3,5 km from the seashore in the Karkinit Bay. All the islands stretch along the bay-shore for 8 km. The biggest island of the six ones is the fourth, 3,5 km long and 350 metres wide. The extensive forbidden zone has been founded. The Swan Islands are reservation of the international importance.

Great Alushta is one of the best resort centres in the Crimea. Alushta, its shaded silent parks, well-groomed pebble beaches, warm sea and abundance of fruit make us be fallen in love with it once and for all. Not less well it is possible to spend time in Partenit, Lazourny, Rybachye and other places of Great Alushta. Our portal will tell you about all local beautiful places and sights.

When you happen to get to Karasan (the former Rayevsky’s estate), first of all you should look around the well-known Yuzhnoberezhny (Southern coast) Park.

Driving out on an Alushta route, it wouldn’t be a bad thing to drop in at a place of the old Chatyr-Dag. It is the best-known mountain range in the Crimea, which is included in the highest five ones on the peninsula. The peak of the overhead plateau is 1525 meters above sea level! From a distance the outlines of the mountain range remind a tent or a marquee; the name Chatyr-Dag derives from here, meaning a «tent-mountain» in translation from Turkic.

There is a historic landmark on a quiet street in Yalta, formerly Leszczynski’s mansion. The ground floor hosts the exposition “Yalta: Culture at the Turn of the 20th Century.” The second floor accommodates a literary museum dedicated to the prominent Ukrainian poet, Lessya Ukrainka (Larysa Kosach-Kvitka), which opened on February 25, 1991, in commemoration of her 120th anniversary, and focuses on the time she spent in this scenic resort city, and the work she accomplished in that period.