Radisson SAS Resorts, Alushta.

The newly built Radisson Resort SAS in Alushta is one of the first internationally recognized hotel brands to open in the Crimea. More hotels are set-to be built along the Black Sea coast, a popular summer destination among Ukrainians.
The four-star Radisson SAS Resort Alushta is enviably located along the banks of the Black Sea, in the heart of Alushta. A charming park is offering guests a relaxing ambiance for a seaside getaway. The hotel is the perfect base for exploring the many attractions of the Southern coast such as the palace of Nicholas II, the Swallow's Nest and St. Alexander Nevsky's Cathedral.
Simferopol rail station - 45 km
Simferopol Airport - 60 km
Yalta - 36 km
Sevastopol - 118 km

      With a soothing Mediterranean climate, stunning mountain tops and canyons and charming Black Sea coastline, Crimea is an undiscovered gem. Russian tourists have long been attracted to the areas curative properties with a mild climate that is not as damp as Sochi and avoids the sharp, dry heat of other resort destinations such as Turkey or Egypt. The area is home to natural wonders with beautiful waterfalls, mysterious caves and unusual mud volcanoes. 
    Visitors can savour expertly produced wines with the earliest recorded production dating back over 2000 years in the area. Crimea offers a visual record of its amazing history as it has witnessed Babylonian, Egyptian and ancient Roman civilizations as well as shows traces of life from the Stone and Bronze ages. The area plays host to several not-to-miss sites such as the iconic Swallow's Nest and the late summer residence of the Romanov family, the palace of Nicolas II Livadia.
Located along the picturesque banks of the Black Sea, the four-star Radisson SAS Resort, Alushta is the perfect embodiment of classic, elegant style. Built in 1913, the hotel is renowned as one of Alushta's finest architectural monuments and merges its historic charms with modern-day conveniences. Throughout the decades the hotel has played an important historical role serving as a hospital for soldiers in World Wars I & II, home to Alushta's first museum and was a popular sanatorium thanks to its open verandas and seaside location.
The hotel is situated in the heart of Alushta, along the popular wharf area on the Black Sea. Guests can choose from 63 elegant guest rooms including Executive rooms, Junior Suites and Suites.

     Internet access is available in guest rooms, conference rooms and Business Centre.
The hotels's All Day Dining Restaurant, Aluston offers a tempting à la carte menu of european dishes alongside local specialities. During the Summer season, guests can dine on gourmet cuisine in La Veranda while soaking in panoramic views of the Black Sea. The lobby lounge merges classic English furnishings with comfortable surroundings and serves a varied international drinks menu. Serving a host of fresh pastries, ice creams and light snacks, Patisserie Vanille is the ideal hangout for those with a sweet tooth. Hotel guests can enjoy a dip in the charming outdoor swimming pool or access to our private beach. With its seaside location and extensive facilities, the hotel is ideal for weddings, corporate incentives and events.

      Alushta - cheerful, bustling resort town. The most convenient transport in respect Spa attractive to the car, cycling, equestrian and hiking. Exceptionally clean air and a general sense of calm well-being is always growing impact here resort factors. Alushta is located in the seaside part of the spacious South Coast basin Crimea.

The city is known to the VI century, when Emperor Justinian I ordered Aluston build a fortress here, but in the XIX century Vorontsov built a wine cellar here and the church. Alushta mountain amphitheater - the most beautiful and extensive in the Crimea. Mountain walks and hikes of Alushta very romantic and not tiring.

To the west of the valley extends beech and pine forests Crimean reserve seats hunting kings and Davis. The city has many attractions: the temple Sv.Feodora Stratilata, Alushta History Museum, villa XIX v.N.Staheeva "Otrada" in a great park, the Museum of Nature and much more.

Aluston The fortress was built on the orders of Emperor Justinian I to VI century. Throughout the Middle Ages Aluston was an important reference point for all States, owned the South shore of Crimea: Roman (Byzantine) Empire, Khazar Kaganate, Feodoro principality. In the period of genueztsev city was one of the fortified centers Kapitanstva Gauthier (so-called part of the Genoese holdings in the Crimea, stretches roughly from the Fori (Forosa) to Alustona) and was the subject of the ongoing military conflicts between genueztsami and Duchy Feodoro.

The Italians called the city Lusta. To date, only one tower preserved medieval fortress.
After the conquest of the southern coast of Crimea Osman, Alushta lost its military significance and has remained a small town fisherman. In times of Ottoman rule it was part of the Sudak kadylyk.

Climate.
Mediterranean-type climate is subtropical, dry, hot, with mild winters. The average temperature in December - +2,8 ° C, August - +23,8 ° C. Precipitation - 430 mm per year, the number of sunny hours a year - about 2320, the lowest relative humidity in August - 63-68%. Bathrobe season lasts from mid-May to mid-October, for children - from late June until the end of September (water temperature around 20 ° C or more).

Kazantip Beach Party, amazing techno, trance and house music.

About KaZantip
KaZantip. What is it? http://www.kazantip.com
Z16 = 26.07.2008 - 30.08.2008
kaZantip republic is the biggest, longest, craziest and most amazing techno, trance and house music event in the world.
A republic dedicated to music, fun and happiness on the most beautiful sandy beach directly on the black sea.

KaZantip is located at the south-west coast of the Black Sea in the Crimea, Ukraine. KaZantip is a virtual republic and is every year new founded.

How to reach the KaZantip festival:
The easiest way is to fly to Simferopol International airport where you then make your way to KaZantip. You can also fly first to Kiev then make your way to Simferopol by plane or train. At Simferopol we will meet you and ensure you get to KaZantip without delay. We recommend that you book your trip trough a travel agency with experience in dealing with Ukraine.

There are also other ways to reach the KaZantip festival. You can take a coach to Simferopol from every major European city which one-way should take around 48 hours, obviously this is cheap but not the most comfortable way to get to Kazantip.

Flight outside you dreams, unlimited fun, lot of sun shine, wonderful sand beaches, warm Black See, sexy pretty youth, non-stop party on 14 dance flour, first-rate Russian & foreign DJs… This unbelievable non-stop party goes in every year from middle of July till the end of August. Fresh breath of see-breeze brings good weather and wonderful mood for all the people on the beach.

The temperature is about +28-30 0C during the day and +23-25 0C at the night. The water temperature is nearly +22-24 0C and it’s ideal for non-stop dances and see-bathing.

Being there you forget about everything and only dance, have fun and swim. Party night changes by party day. KaZantip – it’s a fancy world of music, relaxation and love, and it was made especially for you

KaZantip – yearly festival of dancing music – appeared from underground dancing culture (beginning of 90’s) and became the biggest one. A lot of people from Russia, Europe, USA, Canada and even Australia are interested in this festival.

Cape Kazantip, reaching northwards far out into the Sea of Azov, is an exceptionally interesting place. The Kerch landscapes are not the same as those on the southern coast, there are no bright colours and lush floral tints, but the land forms contain some amazing and bizarre rock formations. If you look closely you will discover new features in this wild, deserted, and somewhat out of this world landscape.
A decision had been made by the authorities to build a nuclear power plant on Cape Kazantip, on the coast of the salty lake Aktashski. The construction was stopped by the energetic efforts of the Crimean environmentalists, who even resorted to hunger strikes to make their case.

Kazantip is a dissident dance party, a subculture intended to transform a culture. Or perhaps: a party that reflects a transformation. The quasi-political tenor of the festival is often explicitly silly—the organizers publish a constitution, for example, outlining the rights and obligations of participants, declaring the party a "virtual Republic" and banning the use of tuxedos, bow ties, and other formal wear, among many other stipulations. To enter the Republic, you buy a "viza," an entry card with a bar code that flashes your picture on a computer screen for security personnel as you pass by..

Hundreds of DJ's from all over Europe have brought their records to this beach in Crimea for the Kazantip festival, the monthlong summer dance party that attracts tens of thousands of visitors each year. The hordes are mostly young Ukrainians and Russians, with some reinforcements from other former Soviet republics and, to a lesser extent, the rest of Europe. Ten stages have been built right on the beach, all of them surrounded nightly by dancers gyrating and swaying and occasionally falling down.

Cape Kazantip, reaching northwards far out into the Sea of Azov, is an exceptionally interesting place. The Kerch landscapes are not the same as those on the southern coast, there are no bright colours and lush floral tints, but the land forms contain some amazing and bizarre rock formations. If you look closely you will discover new features in this wild, deserted, and somewhat out of this world landscape.
A decision had been made by the authorities to build a nuclear power plant on Cape Kazantip, on the coast of the salty lake Aktashski. The construction was stopped by the energetic efforts of the Crimean environmentalists, who even resorted to hunger strikes to make their case.

Recreation in Laspi. Crimea

Laspi Bay.
Laspi Bay is located on the southern coast of the Crimea, not far from Forosa towards Sevastopol. Restricted to Cape Sarych from the east and reserve Ayya - from the west. Conditionally divided into two parts - Laspi and Batiliman.

Even if you never had not previously visited Laspi, you will see in speaking rocky ridges and outline coast elusive something familiar. Do not be surprised, this place is a source of inspiration for many artists.

Private sector in the Bay Laspi not. If you go to rest, it will have to choose between two extremes - the organized recreational (in boarding houses, sanatoriums, houses) or recreational absolutely "wild" (camping).

Batiliman fold so beautifully, but the sea here is so clean that area sanatorium "Batiliman" arranged the whole tent city. This is in spite of some problems with shops and water. In Batilimane no shops and cafes (with the exception of a single bar on the beach sanatorium). The place is very convenient for the rest autotourists (good check-in and eat, where to place the machine).

At Yalta, Sevastopol route, is located above the bay Laspi lookout platform. Opens type - remarkable. If you pass past, we recommend to stop and look.

Balaklava. Nuclear submarine base

    Balaklava is a town in the Crimea, Ukraine which has an official status of a district of the city of Sevastopol.

    Balaklava has changed hands many times during its history. A settlement at its present location was originally founded under the name of Symbolon by the Ancient Greeks, for whom it was an important commercial city. 

  During the Middle Ages, it was controlled by the Byzantine Empire and then by the Genoese who conquered it in 1365. The Byzantines called the town Yamboli and the Genoese named it Cembalo. The Genoese built a large trading empire in both the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, buying slaves in Eastern Europe and shipping them to Egypt via the Crimea, a lucrative market hotly contested with by the Venetians. It is believed that it was on board a Genoese trading cog sailing back to Genoa from Balaklava (or Kaffa, according to some chronicles) that the Black Death first arrived in Europe in the mid-14th c.

      The ruins of a Genoese fortress positioned high on a clifftop above the entrance to the Balaklava Inlet are a popular tourist attraction and have recently become the stage for a Medieval festival. In 1475 the growing Ottoman Empire took possession of Balaklava renaming it Balıklava ("a fish nest" in Turkish), which was slowly corrupted over time to its present form. During the Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774, the Russian troops conquered the Crimea in 1771. Thirteen years later, Crimea was definitively annexed by the Russian Empire. After that, Crimean Tatar and Turkish population was replaced by Greeks from the Archipelago. In 1787 the city was visited by Catherine the Great.


Nuclear submarine base.
From series of the american postcards about soviet military threat:


  But here is looks on in persisting lifes:
    One of the monuments is an underground, formerly classified submarine base that was operational until 1993. The base was said to be virtually indestructible and designed to survive a direct atomic impact. During that period, Balaklava was one of the most secret residential areas in the Soviet Union.

   Almost the entire population of Balaklava at one time worked at the base; even family members could not visit the town of Balaklava without a good reason and proper identification. The base remained operational after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 until 1993 when the decommissioning process started. This process saw the removal of the warheads and low-yield torpedoes. In 1996, the last Russian submarine left the base, which is now open to the public for guided tours around the canal system, the base, and a small museum, which is now housed in the old ammunition warehouse deep inside the hillside.  

     Underground Cheops pyramid. "Object 825 GTS" - the so-called documents in this complex, yet conceived by Stalin as the construction protivoatomnoy protection of the first category. The leader was shocked by the results of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and decided thus to protect from attack submarine fleet to guarantee the infliction of retaliation.

     Charm and originality of Balaklava is in the unique long and deep bay on one side of which high on the mountain scenic ruins of medieval fortress Chembalo Genoese, but on the other - climbs Mount Tavros that is translated from Turkish means "empty". It was something and built a subterranean city. His premises were vydolbleny in the rock and covered with reinforced concrete, the thickness of which was 56 meters. 

     In the case of a direct threat of nuclear attack - a facility could withstand a direct hit charge capacity of up to 100 kilotons - great thickness sealed doors closed, and the plant is capable of self-sufficiency was there 3 years, along with 3000 people - all of the then population of Balaklava.
     Autonomous excess air, powerful diesel generators, fuel and water mains, underground rail gave way to fully isolate the objective from the external environment. There were well-equipped command posts, bakeries, storage facilities for products and lubricants, hospital, housing for troops, dining halls, kitchens, bathrooms, showers and even lounges.
     From a military point of view "Object 825 GTS" was an underground water channel combined with dry docks, for repair shops, warehouses for the storage of torpedo and other weapons. Combined underground water channel to accommodate submarines and 7 if necessary to repair them. Its depth is up to 8 meters in width - from 8 to 12 metres and a height of the arch channel - 18 metres. The total area of all premises and plant moves - 5100 square kilometres. m, the surface of the water under the ground - 3 thousand Apt. m. Length - 380 meters, the length of the dock - 110 meters.