Here we’ll post some photos of the beautiful places we visit.
We are honored to present beautiful oil paintings by young artist Anna who is living and working in Crimea. Her work is inspired by the amazing landscape and bright colours of the Crimean peninsula.
Anna is a very young artist at the beginning of her career and we wish her every success!
Yalta. March 4. IA Krym Media. Moscow – Crimea – Sevastopol. To Prosperity In Unity, a tourist forum, has started in Yalta.
XXIV International Tourist Fair Crimea. Resorts. Tourism -2015 that will be attended by top officials of the Republic of Crimea and Russian statesmen will open the first day of the forum.
In particular, the legal use of coastal areas, issues of banking and crediting the tourism industry, development of the RNKB payment services in Crimea that will become an alternative to Visa and Master Card in the upcoming holiday season are scheduled to discuss within the program of the event.
The participants are 180 companies of the peninsula and other regions of Russia serving the tourism industry of Crimea, travel agencies, resort accommodation facilities.
The forum aims to create an information platform for a constructive dialogue between members of the tourism market of Crimea and Russia and to promote the solution of topical issues of the domestic and inbound tourism development.
The forum is organized by the Crimean Tourism Development Center, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Crimea, the Committee on Resort and Tourist and Exhibition Activities of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Crimea.
22/02/2015
Today is the last day of #Maslenitsa Week in Russia. One of the he biggest pancake fairs in #Crimea is taking place in #Yalta today.
It stretched all along Yalta Embankment. Pancake Fair was the main theme of this weekend and it was also serve as a scenery for the performances, contests and games.
Maslenitsa is a traditional Slavic festival celebrated during the week before Fast. It marks the boundary of the winter and spring. Although the festival has absorbed a lot of Christian traditions, it still retains some pagan customs. The main heroine of the festival is the straw effigy of Lady Maslenitsa. Throughout the week all kinds of contests, strength competitions and performances take place around Lady Maslenitsa.
The most common Maslenitsa food is ‘bliny’ (pancakes) that symbolize the sun. In the very end of the festival Lady Maslenitsa effigy is burned down which symbolized farewell to winter.
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New memorial dedicated to The 70th Anniversary of Yalta Conference was opened in Livadia Palace in #crimea today.
The Meeting of ” The Big Three” held February 4–11, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe’s post-war reorganization. The conference convened in the Livadia Palace near Yalta in Crimea.
Crimea is a multicultural region. People from 70 nationalities live here, Russians make up 58.5% of the population, Ukrainians 24.4%, Crimean Tatars 12.1%, Belarusians 1.5%, Armenians 0.4%. Also Greeks, Caraimes, Jews, Italians, Germans, Azerbaijan, Georgians, Moldovan, Polish and many others live in Crimea.
This fantastic mix of different nationalities and cultures benefits the variety of cooking styles and gives you an opportunity to taste something new every day.
An amazing Ukrainian restaurant in Sevastopol will offer you a beautiful fairytale atmosphere and traditional recipe dishes from salmon and pork.
Supplemented with salads and Ukrainian bread.
There are Russian restaurants in Simferopol and other Crimean cities in different styles which demonstrate different periods of Russian history. One of them is minimalistic Soviet restaurant “Moskva”.
And this restaurant represents the imperial age of Russia
With an additional dinning area in the garden
Offering not just traditional Russian food
But Japanese, Tatar, European and…
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Please note, this group is not associated with any tours or travel company. We are not selling any tours or services. It is a social, community group set-up to bring together like minded people to plan trips together. We are planning two types for holiday break in Crimea from 2nd to 12th of April 2015. One is Wine tasting, Culture and History trip to Crimea 2 April – 12 April, 2015 and the details of the second one you will find below.
We all leave London together on the 2nd of April. As there are no direct flights to Crimea from London, so we’ll be flying to Moscow first and take the connecting flight from Moscow to Simferopol (Crimea). The Easyjet flight from London (Gatwick) to Moscow (Domodedovo airport) costs around £100 return. Moscow (Domodedovo) to Simferopol (Crimea) costs around £150 return.
You will need to apply for Russian visa…
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By April the Crimea is already comfortably warm, with temperatures reaching + 15° C to +20 ° C by day. All around is green and blooming. With a light sea breeze, the air is filled with the scent of Spring. The sun shines, but is not scorching. The beach season has not yet started, so it is very good time to start to enjoy hiking, walking in the scenic surroundings, boating and fishing. By the way, in April one can already noticeably tan, so a sunscreen should not be forgotten. Crimean landmarks and cultural attractions are still without the large influx of tourists so much more interesting.
We are planning our trip to Crimea, everyone is welcome on board! Please click on the link for full information.
You will need to apply for Russian visa. To get the visa will cost you £122 and will take 6-8 days to get…
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There are a lot of unique places in Crimea. One of them is the unusual salty lake, which has healing properties in the salt. In Spring the water of this lake looks quite normal and salinity has not increased too much.
In April and May when the lake is full, there are many waterfowl birds that live and nest here however, later when the water level drops down for many of them the lake’s environment will become uninhabitable.
The vibrant colour of the lake peaks at the hottest Summer months.
When summer comes, the searing heat affects everything here (some scientists equate small areas of this part of the Kerch Peninsula of Crimea not even as the steppe zone, but as the semi-desert).
Water in the lake is reduced dramatically. It departs from the usual lane, leaving only salt and lots of it.
When the lake water diminishes the remaining water…
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In the 1930s the Soviet Secret Service, in strict secrecy investigated in Crimea several anomal zones. After 10 years World War II broke out and the Germans occupied the Crimean peninsula. The Nazi secret society “Ahnenerbe SS” were also seriously engaged in occult researches in Crimea, which for them was no less important than Tibet. Both Soviets and Nazis had very good reason for their intrest.
If you look at the map of the Crimean peninsula or a photograph taken from space, the peninsula looks like a bird flying to the East. Cape Meganom is at the heart of this bird. So the creator(s) of civilisation probably marked it with such a strong magnetic anomaly on the cape.
There is evidence of the classic magnetic anomaly here. Cape Meganom is well known for its “rings”on the ground, a yellowish colour which can be seen even through the grass. These rings…
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The Kerch peninsula in Crimea is one of the most enigmatic and mysterious places. For hundreds of centuries, a relatively small area unfolded thousands of fights, tragedies, historically important events, for archaeologists and scientists alike. The Kerch area is more like a huge museum complex in the open air, where every year there are new discoveries. The Kerch city Museum of History and Archaeology, is the oldest museum in Crimea, it was founded in 1826 on 15 June. The museum has a unique exhibition of artefacts dating from VI century BC.
Even presence of the legendary warrior tribe the Amazons was discovered in Crimea. The fact is that the tribe of warrior women was living on the shores of the Black sea which in ancient times was called Pontus (believed IV – III century BC ) is amazing.
The blind poet Homer described the forces consisting of women who bravely fought…
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