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Simferopol

Posted by traveltocrimea on Дек-18-2009

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Simferopol is the capital of Crimea. Most of the tourists usually gravitate to the seaside, they don’t know that Simferopol hides intriguing history. Till now the history of Simferopol is the subject of discussion among the historic scientists.

Simferopol, railway station, simferopol taxi

On the territory of modern Simferopol there was a city, called Neapol Scythius, in Greek “New city”, the city existed from IV century B.C. till III century A.C. Then Neapol Scythius was destroyed by Goths, than again it was restored and destroyed by Huns1.

Since 1501 on rather huge territory of modern Simferopol there was one of the largest cities of medieval Crimea. Aqmescit, the translation from Turkic is “the white mosque” (Aq—white, and mescit—mosque). Aqmescit was handcrafts city with narrow streets, dead-end streets, so this place as a whole looks like a puzzle. The oldest building is Kebir-Cami, was built in 1496. The Mosque is really white, that is why, the city was called Aqmescit.

!! Simferopol had to replace the old tatar’s name of the city. As a result our city have lost nearly 3 centuries of its history. So today many Crimean ethnographers say, that Simferopol’s birthday is not 1784, only just when the word “Simferopol” appeared.

After annexation of Crimea to the Russian Empire in 1783 by Catherine II of Russia, Simferopol became the administrative center of Taurida Governorate. The foundation of the first buildings was in June of 1784, for construction works were sent former soldiers and farmers – so these people were the first settlers.

There have been living a lot of famous persons like Russian writers A. Pushkin, A. Griboedov, L. Tolstoy, A. Chekhov, painters I.Samokish, I. Aivazovsky, doctor and scientist N. Pirogov, scientists P.Pallas, A.Fersman, I.Kurchatov, G.Franko, army officers V.Dolgorukov, A. Suvorov and many others.

1 Hun —- A member of a nomadic central Asian people gaining control of a large part of central and eastern Europe about AD 450

Culture and Museums in Simferopol

The Museum of Simferopol is opened for the first time in Simferopol

Night at Museum in Simferopol

Simferopol’s cultural life

Parks in Simferopol

Gagarinsky Park in Simferopol or finally Spring over here

Two best Simferopol’s parks: Salgirka and Gagarinsky

Tours in Simferopol

Historical DayTrip on Womans’ International Day in Simferopol

TOUR “Multicultural Spirit of Crimea” 6 days/5 nights

News in Simferopol