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Foros Church

is a popular tourist attraction on the outskirts of Yalta in the Crimea, known primarily for its scenic location, overlooking the Black Sea littoral from a 400-metre cliff near Baidarsky Pass.The church overlooking the village of Foros was commissioned by a local landowner to commemorate Alexander III's survival in the Borki train disaster in 1888.The landowner's name was Alexander Kuznetsov, he was a tea trader from Moscow.Nikolai Chagin a celebrated architect from Wilno designed the church in a bizarre blend of Rastrelliesque Baroque, Russian Revival and Byzantine Revival.

Livadia Palace

was a summer retreat of the last Russian tsar, Nicholas II, and his family in Livadiya, Crimea in southern Ukraine.The Yalta Conference was held there in 1945, when the palace housed the apartments of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and other members of the American delegation.Today the palace houses a museum but it is sometimes used by the Ukrainian authorities for international summits.The palace contains 116 rooms with interiors furnished in different styles.There are a Pompeian vestibule an English billiard-room, a Neo-baroque dining room and a Jacob-style study of maple wood which elicited particular admiration of Nicholas II.

Bank of Lenin

Bank of Lenin is a central walking street of Yalta.Bank framed by palm trees and filled with a continuous range of attractions, bars, cafes and restaurants.The architecture of woven various styles it encased in red granite and polychrome light gray porfyrytom.In the middle of XIX century there was the postal road from Sevastopol to Yalta, and the town of Yalta was located where now Club sailors.In early modern Embankment on the square at the entrance to the city stood alone house quarantine security.

Museum of Anton Chekhov

is located in the area of Chekhov (Yalta), where he spent his last years.This APChekhov decided to move to Moscow for health reasons.At the end of 1898 the writer bought this piece of land on which planted a garden and built a house.The house was built by architect L.N.Shapovalova - all for 10 months.September 9, 1899 in Yalta Chekhov moved with her sister Maria Pavlovna and her mother Eugenia Yakovlevna.Here were written by such famous story "The Lady with the Dog" play "Three Sisters" and "The Cherry Orchard.

Lesya Ukrainian Museum

Lesya Ukrainian held in Yalta for two years lived with 42-s.Action Team to create a museum of Lesya Ukrainian Yalta began in the early 1970s, before the 100th anniversary of the poet.Because of the persecution of national intelligence in the 1970s, work on the museum was closed and in the house, liberated from residents to the Museum of Lesya Ukrainian was opened department Yalta regional museum with the exhibition "Museum of progressive pre-revolutionary Russian and Ukrainian Culture".

Yalta amphitheater

Yalta band Mountains in the shape of an amphitheater and ends Yalta jajloj.Yalta mountain amphitheater protects the city from the north, northeast and northwest and creates a specific microclimate of the city.He frames the coastal valley in which the city of Yalta and Yalta bay.To the north and northwest of Yalta is Ai Yayla - part of the Main ridge of Crimean mountains.In the north-east of it lie spurs Nikitsky jajly with top Avinda (1473 m).Southwest of Yalta mountain is Mohabi (804 m).

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