Wine tasting, Culture and History trip to Crimea 2 April – 12 April, 2015

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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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Amazon warriors in Crimea

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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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The hidden treasures of ancient Chersonesus

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One of our last days on Crimean peninsular we went to ancient city Chersonesus (Khersones) . It is about 2500 y.o. The colony was established in the 6th century BC by settlers from Heraclea Pontica. The name “Chersonesos” in Greek means “peninsula”, and aptly describes the site on which the colony was established. The ancient city is located on the shore of the Black Sea at the outskirts of Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula. In the late 2nd century BC Chersonesus became a dependency of the Bosporan Kingdom. It was subject to Rome from the middle of the 1st century BC until the 370s AD, when it was captured by the Huns. We were told it has been nicknamed the “Russian Troy”. The site is now part of the National Historical-Archeological Museum-Zapovednik of the Russian Khersones Tavriysky. In 2013, Chersonesus was listed as a World Heritage Site.

So we bought two…

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Secrets of the Balaklava bay, Crimea

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Being over 2500 years old Balaklava is one of the most ancient cities in the Crimea and it is very popular for tourists now.  Balaklava has changed hands many times during its history. The first were Tauri (also known as Scythotauri ) in IX century BC, who worshiped the goddess Artemida. They gave their name to the peninsula, which was known in ancient times as Taurica, Taurida and Tauris.

It’s believed the first records on a settlement with it’s ancient name the Lamos in the Balaklava bay has been found in Homer’s poem Odyssey. “His soldiers, with a dozen ships, arrive at “the rocky stronghold of Lamos”  There is a beleive Odysseus, the main character of Homer’s Odyssey, visited this place during his journey back home to Ithaca. The giants ate many of Odysseus’ men and destroyed eleven of his twelve ships by launching rocks from high cliffs. Odysseus’ ship…

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Stalin’s secret nuclear submarine base in Balaklava

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One of the most interesting museums we visited in Crimea was a top secret Cold War nuclear submarine underground base located in the Balaklava Bay not far from Sevastopol city.

In the period after the Second World War, the two superpowers – the USSR and the U.S. – stepped up their nuclear arsenal, threatening each other pre-emptive strikes and retaliatory strikes.

On Monday, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., the nuclear bomb “Little Boy” was dropped on Hiroshima by an American B-29 bomber, directly killing an estimated 80,000 people. On August 9, 1945, Nagasaki was the target of the United States’ second atomic bomb attack at 11:02 a.m., when the north of the city was destroyed in less than a second, and an estimated 40,000 people were killed instantly, tens of thousands died later . It was then that Joseph Stalin gave Lavrentiy Beria (who was responsible at that time “nuclear project”), a secret directive:…

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Russian Navy Day celebration in Sevastopol 2014

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The next city we visited in Crimea was Sevastopol. This is very special city in Russian history and we came here for a special reason. The 27th of July was The Russian Navy Day celebration in all over Russia and Sevastopol too of cause as it is Russian Black Sea Navy base.

Thousands of locals and tourist came to the Sevastopol Promenade to see the Russian Black Fleet parade.

Crimea Sevastopol 2014

Here we bought an appropriate outfit for such special day for Alexei  🙂

Crimea 2014

Now he looks like brave Russian Navy 🙂

People were climbing all over the places just to have a better view

Even a local praying mantis wanted to see the parade 🙂

People stood on rooftops to see the ships and performance

And so it began…….

Yes, we’ve been there and we saw it! This shooting was VERY powerful and VERY loud! Alexei never…

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“Lake of Youth ” Crimean legend

Watercourse under the Ai-Petri mountain in Crimea is another great tourist attraction! 

The legend tells: between Alupka and Mishor on the mountain river Hasta-bash in ancient times lived an elderly couple. They were plagued by one thought; where to get money to arrange a decent burial?The old man decided to go to the mountains several times, to collect dead wood in the forest, to sell it at the market and buy everything he needed for the funeral.

The next day the old man went into the mountains. Chopped up a large bundle of firewood and put it on his back, grunting and stumbling the old man went down a hill.
And he came to one of the sources that gave rise to the river Hasta-bash. The old man took a break and throwing wood on the ground, began to drink greedily.Then the old man fell asleep, leaning back against a pine tree.Meanwhile, the old woman, without waiting for the old man decided to go to the forest to search for him.

When she saw a man carrying a bundle of wood, she did not recognise him as her husband and asked him:

– Young man, did you meet my old man in the woods?

– Why, – said her husband – are you blind from old age, can you not recognise me?

– Do not laugh at me, young man – the women said

And then the old man realised that he drank water from the fountain of youth, which his grandfather told him about.He then explained everything to his wife. The old woman of course, immediately wanted to drink some water too.Her husband explained to her how to find the source, and went home.

Busy with his work, he did not notice that it was night already. Then he ran down the mountain to look for the old woman. But he couldn’t find his wife anywhere. Suddenly he heard a child crying in the bushes. Picking up the child, he speechlessly  surprised that a child wrapped in the rags of the old woman …

It was found that the women with the usual greed for young  drank too much water from the miraculous source under the mountain Ai-Petri.

Nowadays people go there to try to regain their youthfulness.

 

 

“War and Peace” Festival in Sevastopol June 2014

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The V Art Festival “War and Peace” dedicated to the 70-th anniversary of the liberation of the city Sevastopol from German Nazi  is taking place 08 June, 2014 — 17 June, 2014 in the Hero-city in #Crimea.

 

 

“War and Peace” Festival is conducted in Sevastopol and represents a massive combination of various art forms: photography, theatrical plays, performances, military music and dancing. The Festival was named after one of the greatest Russian writers Leo Tolstoy who visited Sevastopol during Crimean War in 1854 and published records of his experiences during the Siege of Sevastopol (1854 – 1855). “Sevastopol Stories”are three short stories written by Leo Tolstoy in 1854. These brief “sketches” formed the basis of many of the episodes in Tolstoy’s magnum opus, War and Peace.

Leo Tolstoy in Sevastopol 1854.

Leo Tolstoy was 26 years old when he first saw the ramparts of Sevastopol. The weather in Crimea in the early winter of 1854—subtropical, cool but not cold—was a paradise compared with the harsh snow and ice farther north. The city itself, though, was in chaos. The heights above the port were ringed with earthworks of woven saplings and packed dirt and stone. Below, the narrow entrance to the harbor was blocked by the hulls of wooden ships deliberately sunk by the Russian navy, placed there to block the invaders. “There are thousands of different objects,” Tolstoy wrote, “thrown in heaps here and there; soldiers of different regiments, some provided with guns and with bags, others with neither guns nor bags, crowd together; they smoke, they quarrel.”

Sevastopol International “War and Peace” Festival first took place in 2010. In 2011 it combined different genres: cinematography, military music, modern dancing and photography, media-arts and performance. But the main character of the event is still the same – Hero City of Sevastopol. The most spectacular arts are joined within area of Sevastopol and “War and Peace”

All the events of the Festival are united by a general topic – “War and Peace. Development dimension”. International “War and Peace” festival combined most various creative projects and restored the greatest international art festival in Crimea.

Oldest Underground Pyramid Complex Found in Crimea, Russia.

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World’s Oldest Underground Pyramid Complex Found in Crimea, Russia.

A scientist discovered the oldest pyramid in the world. Most interestingly, it was found in the most beautiful corner of the country, in Crimea.

As the ICTV channel reported, the finding was revealed by accident, when during his test alternative methods of finding water scientist Vitalii Goh discovered underground unknown object, which proved to be a giant pyramid of 45 meters in height and a length of about 72 meters. Goh said that the pyramid was built during the time of the dinosaurs.

“Crimean pyramid” has a truncated top, like a Mayan pyramid, but its appearance is more like an Egyptian. It is hollow inside, and a mummy of unknown creature is buried under the foundation.

“Under the foundation is a small body in the form of a mummy long 1.3-1.4 meters with a crown on his head.”

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