Sights Yalta - Foros, Ukraine

Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church, designed by architect A. Chagin; house-museum "Tea King" A. Kuznetsova, designed by architect billing, where a collection of paintings by artist Yu Yu Klever; Park laid in 1885 with the participation of scientist and horticulturist E. A. Albrecht, is an outstanding piece of garden culture. Foros district - a unique flora kingdom, valuable reserve of Mediterranean vegetation types. Neither the incomparable beauty Foros coast with its numerous caves, rocky ridges of small coves and bays.

Here is the largest - an area of more than 47 hectares - and oldest - laid over 160 years ago the park with a spectacular combination of local nature and plants from around the world.

To the west of the village of Foros moved Cape Sarich (zolototkanny). This is the southernmost geographical point of the Crimean peninsula and the Ukraine. At the top of the cape is Sarychsky lighthouse, feeding in a sea of light signals to courts.

Above Foros, on a lonely steep Red Rock is an elegant Church of the Ascension of Christ. Temple was built in 1892, designed by architect Academician NM Chagin. Fine and interior of the church. Mosaic work performed famous Italian workshop Antonio Salviatti, and the interior painted famous artists KE Makovsky, AI Korzukhin, academician NE Crickets.

Church built by the former owner's estate Foros A.G Kuznetsov in memory of the salvation of the Emperor Alexander III and his family at the train crash, which occurred near Kharkov, in the king's return from the Crimea to St. Petersburg.


On the road to the church and then to pass Baydarskaya unthinkable zigzags winds, rising, a picturesque old road to Sevastopol.

On the pass in the form of an arch, reminiscent of an ancient portico, stand Baydarskie gate. They were built in 1848 in honor of the completion of the road Sevastopol-Yalta. Here ends the Southern coast of Crimea.

Starting from the gate Baidar continuous wall, then rising, then falling, leaving the north-east of the Main Ridge of Crimean Mountains.