Description Yalta, Ukraine

Yalta - the most popular resort of Crimea, known throughout the world. This resort city with its climate and landscape conditions, with a well developed entertainment industry, helps you rest, recuperation and health. Today Yalta - a picturesque winding streets and new neighborhoods of high-rise buildings, old parks and snow-white yachts moored directly on the waterfront of the city - a place of attraction vacationers and yaltintsev.

Yalta is located on the southern coast of the Crimean Peninsula, which is located in southern Ukraine. From the south and west by the Crimean Peninsula is washed by the waters of the Black Sea in the east - the Kerch Strait and the north-east - the Azov Sea and the Gulf Sivash. In the southern part of the Crimean Peninsula the Crimean Mountains loom. They represent a complex combination of small mountain ranges, rocky ridges and hollows.

The coastal part of southern slope of the mountain range from Cape Aiya in the west to the mountains to the east Karadag called the South Coast of Crimea. This narrow strip of coast in width from 2 to 12 km, dissected by numerous ravines and river valleys, very picturesque.

Wherever you drove up to Yalta, she always suddenly opens before you. Gorgeous southern city sprawled on the beach in the valleys of two mountain rivers of karst origin - Wuchang-Su (Vodopadnaya) and Derekoika (fast). On land it is surrounded by a semicircle of mountains: to the north and north-west of Yalta is Ai-Petrinskaya Jayla - part of the Main Ridge of Crimean Mountains, north-east of it leaves a spur of the plateau with Nikita Avinda peak (1473 m), gradually sloping to the sea, He ends cape Nikitsky (Marian), south-west of Yalta towering cone-shaped mountain Mogabi (804 m), the southern slope of its ends by the sea cape Ai-Todor. Within this relatively small mountain amphitheater surrounding Yalta, the terrain is extremely varied. Here and ridge of high mountains with spikes Ai-Petri (1234 m), and the spurs of the mountains with slopes covered with thick pine and beech forests and deep gorges with waterfalls, valleys and mountain streams. This amphitheater elegantly highlighted the Yalta Bay.

In the city itself rises the hill Darsan, but close - a hill of Fame. Further, over the hill, starts spur Iograf. Darsan hill and spur Iograf a watershed rivers Derekoika (quickly) and Wuchang-Su (Vodopadnaya). Both rivers flow in the central part of the city and flow into the sea near the waterfront.