Ukraine
Ukraine
In the valley of the river above the village Belbek Small Garden tower three rocky promontory. On the eastern cape Kul-Burun (Tower cape) is Syuyrenskaya fortress.
The town of Saki is known for its Sanitorium. The Sanitorium is known for its special mud baths, massages and rehabilitation facilities. The mud is cultured in large pits which is a two year process. The area is well guarded by young soldiers and great care is taken to insure the process is done correctly. Saki is only one of two places in the world that makes the special healing mud. Within the holding tanks are micro-organisms that produce the mud.
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.