Dulber Palace • Yalta
Dulber Palace
Dulber Palace • Yalta
The elegant Dulber Palace, built in the late 19th century for the Prince Pyotr Nikolayevich, an uncle of the last Russian Imperator Nicholas II, is one of the brightest architectural gems at the Southern Coast of Crimea. Its fabulous snow-white asymmetric building with silver cupolas and elegant turrets noticeably stands out against a background of fantastic Crimean Mountains’ sceneries and is rec

Uchan-Su Waterfall
Yalta’s picturesque surroundings conceal many wonders of nature: their concentration per square meter rolls over limit, exceeding all thinkable and unthinkable norms. One of them is majestic waterfall Uchan-Su, located on the southern slope of the beautiful Ai-Petri Mountain. Its name means flying water in Crimean Tatar. It is the highest waterfall not only in Crimea, but in the whole Ukraine as w

Chokrak Lake • Kerch
Chokrak Lake
Chokrak Lake • Kerch
The salty Chokrak Lake, situated on the Kerch Peninsula near the village Kurortnoye, is a true natural wonder. It is notable for its unique curative mud, whose composition has no analogues in the world. The mud is formed on the lake’s bottom by hydrosulfuric springs and mud volcanoes, as well as by algae and microorganisms from the sea water, which feeds the lake through a narrow sand and shell ba

Jur-Jur Waterfall • Alushta
Jur-Jur Waterfall
Jur-Jur Waterfall • Alushta
The full-flowing Jur-Jur Waterfall, situated in Alushta’s surroundings, in mysterious, densely overgrown with forest Khapkhal ravine, is rightly reckoned among the most beautiful Crimean waterfalls. In addition to being very picturesque, it is notable for being the most powerful waterfall on the peninsula: on the contrary to the majority of its Crimean ‘colleagues,’ Jur-Jur, whose water discharge

Mud Volcanoes • Kerch
Mud Volcanoes
Mud Volcanoes • Kerch
Old Kerch is notable not only for antique ruins, old burial mounds and medieval fortresses, but also for truly unique natural attractions, located in the city’s surroundings. One of them is an amazing mud volcanoes valley, spread out 8 kilometers away from Kerch. Mud volcanoes are a quite rare natural phenomenon and are not as widespread as magmatic ones. Such volcanoes are formed as a result of t

Yeni-Kale Fortress
The former Turkish fortress Yeni-Kale, whose picturesque fragments stand on the coast in the eastern part of the city, is a valuable monument of architecture and is reckoned among the most interesting and symbolic attractions of Kerch. The powerful fort with original shapes was built by Turks in the early 18th century, during aggravation of the conflict between the Ottoman and the Russian empires,

Museum 'Polyana Skazok'
Polyana Skazok is Ukraine’s only outdoor museum of sculpture and floristics. It is situated in one of the most beautiful corners of the Southern Coast of Crimea: on the protected forest edge at the foot of the peculiar Stavri-Kaya cliff, two kilometers away from Yalta’s center. Its exhibits are more than two hundred characters of folk fairy tales, embodied in unique sculptures and placed on cozy f

The Diorama ‘Sapun Mount Storm on May 7, 1944’
The diorama ‘Sapun Mount Storm on May 7, 1944’ is one of the largest battle paintings in the world. It is the center of the largest memorial complex in the city that was created on the top of the Sapun Mount in order to commemorate the heroic deed of Soviet warriors who liberated Sevastopol from the German-fascist invaders. Located seven kilometers to the east from Sevastopol, the Sapun Mount had

Kalamita Fortress • Sevastopol
Kalamita Fortress
Kalamita Fortress • Sevastopol
The ruins of the once majestic Kalamita fortress, standing on the picturesque Monastic Rock’s plateau in the Sevastopol outskirts, is one of the most interesting monuments of medieval Crimea’s fortification architecture, which is rightly reckoned among the most unique sights on the peninsula. The first fortifications appeared here back in the 6th century. Built by Byzantines, they served as protec
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