Апрель 7th, 2011 
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Sevastopol (“a city worth of worship”, Glorious City) has a special administrative status, a large sea port and a naval base of the Ukrainian and Russian Fleets, industrial, scientific and cultural center of the South of Ukraine.
The territory of Sevastopol was settled at the beginning of the 1st millenium ВС. The rests of the fortifications of a Tauri settlement of the IX century ВС were discovered in the outskirts of Inkerman (Uch-Bash (Three Heads) height). Read more »
Апрель 6th, 2011 admin 
Simferopol is the administrative, industrial and cultural centre of the Crimea since 1784 but the locality was populated from time immemorial. It is situated in a vast hollow between the Outer and Inner Ridges of the Crimean mountains, on the banks of the Salghir River.
In the 4th century the Scythians built the capital of their kingdom, Scythian Neapolis, on a high plateau, and it existed six centuries.
In the early 16th century, a Tartar settlement of Ak-Mechet -“White Mosque” appeared on the left bank of the Salghir River. It became the residence of the Crimean Khan’s heir.
According to the plan of 1842 a maze of curvilinear streets of Ak-Mesdjit was left to the southeast of the main street(now Kirov Avenue), and to the north and west of it rectangular blocks began to appear.
An April 8, 1783 the Manifesto of the annexation of the Crimea was declared.
Istanbul recognized the act of annexation on June,10, 1783.
Since 1783 the Crimea was the Russian Land. Read more… Read more »
Апрель 5th, 2011 admin 
«Part of the Crimea between the mountains and the sea is one of the most beautiful landscapes in the world. The sky is clear and the climate is mild the same as in Italy, but the greenery is more beautiful» so Adam Mickiewicz wrote in one of his letters to his brother.
For the activity in a secret patriotic organization the poet was arrested and exiled in 1823. In 1825 on board the yacht «Carolina» he sailed to the land which excited the poet’s imagination. In two stormy days the yacht arrived at Yevpatoria. Mickiewicz enthusiastically gave high praise to the event:
«I am merry! I am powerful! I am free! I am like a bird!» Read more… Read more »
Апрель 5th, 2011 admin 
The name of Lesia Ukrayinka went down in historv of the Ukrainian literature equally with the names of т Shevchenko and I. Franko. Lesia Ukrainka’s poems were written in the Crimea. Lesia Ukrayinka lived in Yalta, Yevpatoria, Saki Balaclava and visited Bakhchisarai.
For the first time she came to Yalta in 1888 when she was 17. In Yalta she created a series of poems «Travelling to the Sea» and «The Crimean Memoirs».
In January 1897 Lesia Ukrayinka again came to Yalta. The young poetess writes her first dramatic work «Iphigenia in Tauris».
In 1907-1908 Lesia Ukrayinka the third time came to the Crimea. She lived in Balaclava, Yalta and Yevpatoria. Read more… Read more »
Апрель 4th, 2011 admin 
In August 1820, while in exile, A. Pushkin stayed two weeks in Gurzuf with the Rayevskys’ family. While sailing to Gurzuf he wrote the famous lines of his elegy «The Day Luminary Has Sunk…» Alexander Pushkin admired the scenery of Gurzuf, with poplars like magnificent green columns and huge Ayu-Dag.
Later A.S. Pushkin wrote: «In Yur-zuf I had nothing to do, I bathed in the sea, overate grapes. I liked, awake at night, to listen the noise of the waves — and I had been listening to it for hours. A few steps away from the house a new cypress grew; every day I visited it and felt as if we made friends with it». Read more… Read more »
Апрель 3rd, 2011 admin 
At the Nikitsky Botanical Garden there is an exotic looking site called Martian Cape. Its sides are covered by a little pine forest rising up from a craggy seashore.
This is probably how the Crimea’s seashore near the village of Nikita looked like on June 10, 1811, when an ukase was signed in St. Petersburg decreeting the establishment of the Imperial State Botanical garden in the Crimea.
Its first director was Christian Steven, who arrived in Nikita in July 1812 and worked here till 1827. More…. Read more »
Апрель 3rd, 2011 admin 
On the night of June 22, 1941 unknown planes appeared over Sevastopol. Bomb explosions shook the city. There were first demolitions and casualties. There were also first downed enemy planes… The time was 3:13 a.m. A wartime calendar had come into effect.
Sea mines burst in the city. Nazi pilots used them to block off the ships in the bay so as later to destroy them in air raids but the mines dropped on residential houses instead of the bay.
But blitz failed, however. The Black Sea Fleet under the command of Admiral F.S. Oktyabrsky (1899-1969) was one of the first formations to have faced the enemy attack in an organized manner. Read more… Read more »
Апрель 2nd, 2011 admin 
Sevastopol is a city of the wonderful destiny and history.
It was founded in 1783 as a new 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 valor and unexampled heroism. The Crimean War (October 1853 – February 1856) was a conflict fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French, the British, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia. Read more »
Апрель 1st, 2011 admin
The Crimea has a long and rich history. The most ancient mention of the Crimea in the world literature is that of Homer. The time of creation of his great poem dates back to the IX-VII cc. ВС. These lines from Homer’s «Odyssey» are well known in the historical literature:
«There lies the Cimmerians’ country covered by an eternally Wet fog and shadows of clouds; never shows To people his brilliant face Helios…»
The first written mention of the Crimea occurs in Herodotus (485 — 425 ВС) who visited Olbia in the V century ВС. The «Father of History» reports that » the Tauri tribe inhabits the mountainous country adjoining the sea and jutting out into the Pont as far as the Rocky Peninsula…»
This territory, called Taurica or Taurida, was occupied by the Tauri till the 1st century AD. They were farmers and fishermen, knew pottery and how to cast bronze. The Tauri’s main deity was the Maiden, who personified life. Read more… Read more »
Март 31st, 2011 admin 
Scientists believe that there may be as many as 30 million different living organisms in the world. About 5000 of them are wide mammals, 8,000 birds, 6,000 — reptiles, 2,000 -amphibians. As for the Crimea, there are about 55 species of wild animals, 300 species of birds, 14 species of reptiles and 6 species of amphibians.
Besides in the fresh water reservoirs dwell 30 species of fish, and 10,000 species of invertebrates. All the mammals are subdivided into orders: Insectivore -6 species, Chiropters -18 species, Rodents — 14 species, Predators — 8 species, Cetaceans — 3 species, Artiodactyls — 4 species.
Distribution of animals in the Crimea is uneven. It is determined by different landscape conditions and the degree of exploration of the territory of the peninsula. The common mammals of the steppe Crimea are the rodents. The harvest mouse, gopher, hamster are active day and night, feeding on a diet of seeds. Their enemies are polecat, marten and fox. Read more… Read more »
Март 31st, 2011 admin The natural conditions of the Crimea are rather various.
The seaside slopes resemble the landscapes of many countries: Greece, Italy, Spain and Switzerland.
The higher plants number more than 2400 species, 240(10%) of them are endemics. There are more than 400 species of vertebrates, i.e. having the spinal column, 20 % of them are endemics. All Crimean endemics are listed in the Red Data Book.
In the biological respect the Crimea is an island. The salty littoral of Sivash is an insuperable obstacle for the most of species. So some neoendemics appeared.
Some of the Crimean endemics are still usual species: folded snowdrop, Crimean edelweiss, Crimean finch, black-necked jay, field vole of Iphigenia, Crimean black fox, Crimean carabus, and Crimean rodent. Read more »
Март 30th, 2011 admin The Crimean vegetation is determined mainly by its climate which differs across the peninsula. Hot and wet climate supports forests of large trees; a drier climate may support only short grasses.
Vegetation in the Crimea is varied and rich. There are more than 3,000 species of natural and cultivated plants. Their density per sq. km (500 species) is much higher than that in the Mediterranean countries (8,3).
The territory of the Crimea is divided in two unequal parts: the steppe region and the mountain region. In the steppe Crimea, which is the driest part of the peninsula, short grasses, sagebrush, feather grass are the only types of vegetation, which can survive.
Taller grasses grow in areas with slightly more precipitation. These are known as grassland areas. Read more »
Март 29th, 2011 admin 
Water is like blood in the vessels of an organism, supports a life. Water has always been a sacramental dream for each nation, especially in warm countries.
The whole world faced a critical shortage of clean, fresh water.
Fresh water makes only 1 % of all the reserve of the earth water
About 97% of the planet’s water is seawater, another 2% is locked in icecaps and glaciers. Vast reserves of fresh water underlie earth’s surface, but much of it is too deep. Read more »
Март 29th, 2011 admin 
27 марта, в Международный День театра, евпаторийский Народный театр на ходулях отпраздновал свой первый юбилей, своё десятилетие. Read more »
Март 29th, 2011 admin 
Ниже находится замечательный фильм «Малый Иерусалим». Вы побываете на интересной экскурсии по средневековой части Евпатории с профессиональным экскурсоводом.
В 2006 году экскурсия по маршруту «Малый Иерусалим в Евпатории» попала в книгу рекордов Гиннесса, как самая многочисленная экскурсионная группа в мире — на экскурсии одновременно присутствовало 3000 человек.
Весь Фильм-экскурсия «Малый Иерусалим» длится 45 минут, для удобства просмотра, фильм разделён на части, в которых идёт рассказ о культовых сооружениях Евпатории на экскурсионном маршруте «Малый Иерусалим»:
Свято-Николаевский собор. Храм святого пророка Илии. Синагоги Евпатории. Караимские кенасы. Текие дервишей. Армянская церковь Сурб-Никогайос (Св. Николая) Мусульманская мечеть.Желаю вам получить удовольствие от просмотра!
В художественно-поэтическом альбоме «О Евпатории с любовью» евпаторийский поэт Сергей Овчаренко написал:
«Как сообща к добру найти дорогу,
Чтоб Город вечно жил и процветал…
Так, видимо, угодно было Богу,
Собор, мечеть, кенасы, синагогу,
Заботливо вместил в один квартал»
Март 28th, 2011 admin 
В широком пурпуре Авроры
Восходит солнце. Предо мной
Тавриды радужные горы
Волшебной строятся стеной.
Плывём. Всё ближе берег чудный.
И ряд заоблачных вершин
Всё ближе. У кормы дельфин
Волной играет изумрудной
И прыщет искрами вокруг! Read more »
