Unique Places in Avtonomna Respublika Krym

Alushta is located on the distance of 45 kilometers from Simferopol and 41 kilometers from Yalta. This resort is less known than Yalta and is considered cheaper. The ancient name of the city - Aluston. It is considered that there was a Byzantian fortress which was destroyed in the XV century by Turks and never restored.

Alushta has a fine Seaside park and the quay - the longest on the Southern Coast of the Crimea . The dominant of the quay is the semicircular colonnade.

I had a rest in Alushta in 1972 after finishing the first course of my institute. This year we only passed by Alushta but it was not possible to visit it again. Therefore I've put the old photo from 1972 where I sunbathed on a stone on a beach near Alushta.

Foros is a small settlement in the Crimea. It became well-known in August of 1991. At this time in Moscow there was a putsch, and the president of the USSR Michael Gorbachev was on vacation in Foros. During three days Gorbachev was under house arrest in its residence.

On the fourth day the president of the USSR was exempted and returned to Moscow, but it was already another country in which he was only a nominal figure. The USSR broke up in four months. Foros these days did not descend from screens of TVs and newspapers all over the world.

We were passing by Foros on our way to Sevastopol'. We didn't stay in Foros. But I decided this place is very important for our history. I could only make a pic from above.

The mountain Aju-Dag (in translation from Turkic it means the Bear-mountain) is one more symbol of the Crimea. This mountain on the outlines is similar to a bear drinking water from the Black sea.

The legend tells about huge bears lived here long ago. Once a little girl has got to these bears. She remained to live with bears. They liked to listen to her singing. The little girl has grown up. Once, when bears went away on hunting, the young man came there and saw a beautiful girl. He took her away. Bears, trying to return fugitives, began to drink water. Then the girl started singing. The bears fascinated by singing lifted heads and only the main bear immersed his muzzle in the sea more deeply and finally he hardened with grief peering in a sea distance.