Travel to Crimea!

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Chersonesus is one of the 7 miracles of Ukraine. This place-state, Chersonesus, has long life, almost 2 thousand years. And its history is a part of Greek, Anchient Rome, and Byzantine history.  During archeological digs in 1827 the scientists gave Chersonesus one more name – Russian Troja.

The ancient architectural monuments that have preserved till nowadays: hellenistic theatre, roman citadel, medieval christian monasteries, residential districts, streets, potteries, well holes, marble columns.

Museum “Chersonesus” estimates above 200 thousand exhibit items. The most significant  are  oath of Chersonesus citizens, frescos, mosaics, Christian icons.

Ancient theatre in Tauric Chersonesos  perform plays in the evenings. Contacts and more informartion, read here ancient theatre in Tauric Chersonesos.

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Sevastopol is a city of the wonderful destiny and history. It was founded in 1783 as a naval fortress and got the name of Sevastopol which in Greek means a city worth  of worship.

The city has justified its proud name, it has become a symbol of military valour and unexampled heroism.

In those days in autumn of 1854 Russia came to know about the civic feat of Dasha of Sevastopol. She went down in history as the first sister of charity. When the Crimean war began she sold her house, bought a horse, dressed as a sailor and went to the river Alma. There the Russians were fighting against British, French and Turkish in the battle of the Alma. It was the first time in the history of Russia that first aid was given in the field during a battle. More »

Balaclava was the epicentre of Crimean war (1853-1856). Under the patronage of brothers Sheremetyev was opened the unique museum “Crimean War”. This exhibition is the biggest  museum collection of rare objects of the period Crimean war across the globe.
Here are collected all types of the cannons, all kind of cannon shots, all cold guns, all uniforms. The whole collection of the rewards.

The Balaclava’s  Collection “Crimean War” was formed without any government support, and will be performed in Balaclava for 3 years.

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Why would you love to come to visit Crimea!

There are 10 reasons to visit.

1. The unique combination of natural resources at one spot: Black Sea, mountains, boundless beaches, waterfalls, cave towns, canyons. All these native miracles are on the small peninsula Crimea.
2. The low price in comparison to other European resorts, for example – fare marshrutka (minibus) costs 2 grivnas (70 cents).
3. The unique position of all Crimean sights, if you stay in Simferopol, the capital of Crimea, you can get to any town, it will take from 40 min to 2 – 2,5 hours.
4. The climate of peninsula Crimea is submediterranean. The number of sunny days a year – 250 – 270. Due to sunny warm weather Black Sea warms up till 26-28 Grad.
5. The unique history of Crimea: ancient dwelling sites, cave towns and cave monasteries, middle-aged fortresses. Islamic Mosques, Jewish synagogues and Orthodox churches sometimes are situated at the same quarter of the town.

6. The therapeutic climate: pine-wood, rapa (therapeutic mud in lakes), Black Sea, great amount of natural parks.
7. There is an opportunity to make one-day travel tours on foot through the ancient cities, such as Bakhchisarai, Yevpatoria, to sail on the small boats in the plenty bays of hero-city Sevastopol.
8. The native citizens are very hospitable and ready to welcome all the guests, they like to talk much! There is a good opportunity to practice your language skills for Russian learners (2/3 of Crimean population speak Russian).
9. Crimea is lovely during off-season: in autumn and spring the weather is usually very warm, a few tourists, this is a good time of the year for excursions.
10. The Crimean cuisine combines the cultures of different nationalities that lived and are living now. So there are Russian, Ukrainian, Tatars, German, Karaites, Jewish, Italienish cuisines!

On the western coastline of Black sea there is a small hill “Kara-Tobe”, it means black hill. “Kara”- black, “tobe” or “tepe” – hill. The fortress Kara-Tobe can be recognized by crenellated walls. Now there is a museum and the ruins of Greek-Skythian settlement.

5 thousand years ago the first Crimean garrison situated on the Black sea. Besides, the Russian scientists determined that the settlement Kara-Tobe had strategic situation. In ancient times there were 2 main roads:they connected the colonies of north-west Crimea with the capital of Scythian – Neapol Scythius (now this is the territory of modern Simferopol) and Greek Chersonese   (now this is the territory of modern Sevastopol)

Yevpatoria was visited by many well-known people. The most noble person was tsar Alexander I who went down in a history as the winner in war of 1812-1814 with the dictator Napoleon. It was the first Russian monarch who arrived to Yevpatoria. His visit has been arranged modestly enough. There was neither the magnificent carriage, nor uncountable retinue, neither verbose greetings, nor the joyful townspeople in streets. It seemed, Russian tsar has made everything to not involve excessive attention to his arrival. <more/>

Emperor Alexander I visited Karaite Kenasi, in fact it was he who allowed to allocate Kenasi in Yevpatoria. Having become interested in some Karaite’s dogmas, the monarch talked  for a long time to the  Gazan (Karaite’s priest) Joseph – Solomon Lutskim. Then Russian Tsar accepted Hadzi-Aga Babovich’s offer (city head), he went to his manor of «Ghana – Yafa», Karaite’s street, 53. After the meal tsar mentioned a theme for the sake of which he has probably arrived to Yevpatoria. He was looking for baroness Julia Krudner who had lived last years in Yevpatoria. In 1812 when Napoleon attacked Russia, the baroness predicted his falling. More »