Alupka

Alupka

Алупка

Alupka

Basic data

Oblast :

Autonomous Republic of Crimea

Rajon :

City of Yalta

Height :

no information

Area :

4 km²

Residents :

8,745 (2004)

Population density :

2,186 inhabitants per km²

Postcodes :

98676

Area code :

+380 654

Geographic location :

44 ° 25 ' N , 34 ° 3' E Coordinates: 44 ° 25 '20 " N , 34 ° 2' 30" E

KOATUU :

111970200

Administrative structure :

1 city

Mayor :

Andrii Kharitonov

Address:

вул. Червоноармійська 32
98676 м. Алупка

Statistical information

Alupka

Alupka (Ukrainian and Russian Алупка ; Crimean Tatar Alupka ) is a city in Ukraine on the subtropical south coast of the Crimean peninsula in the Black Sea with 8,600 inhabitants, around 17 km from Yalta . The air is particularly clean and pleasant here, as many pines grow outside of the village. That is whyAlupka sanatoriums specializein the treatment of respiratory diseases . In Alupka and the surrounding area there are around two dozen state sanatoriums, rest homes, guest houses and hotels along the coast, where thousands of people, many from Russia and Belarus , spend their vacationduring the summer. Some of the sanatoriums are in operation all year round. By public transport, Alupka can only be reached by bus from Yalta. In Simferopol (around 50 km away) there is a connection to the railway network and an international airport .

History of Alupka

Alupka is originally an old Greek settlement, whereby the name Alupka is derived from the old Greek Alepu (German " fox "). Many foxes were probably sighted at the site of today's Alupka. After the Greeks, Alupka became Byzantine . Alupka was first mentioned in writing in 960 in a document from the Byzantine emperor Romanos II . After that, Alupka became Tatar . After the Russian conquest of Crimea in 1783, Alupka belonged to the estate of Prince Potjomkin , the governor-general of New Russia and the lover of Tsarina Catherine the Great . In 1798, 211 people lived in Alupka, mainly state farmers.

In the Russian Empire, Alupka was part of the Taurian Governorate , which existed until October 1921. After the October Revolution , it was part of the ASSR of Crimea within the Russian SFSR .

By resolution of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the Treaty of Pereyaslav , Alupka and the Crimean Oblast were annexed to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic on April 26, 1954 . From 1991 to 2014 Alupka was part of independent Ukraine.

Since the internationally unrecognized annexation of the Crimean peninsula to Russia in March 2014, Alupka has de facto belonged to the federal subject of southern Russia of the Russian Federation. De jure, according to the administrative-territorial division of Ukraine, Alupka is part of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea , which is one of the territories occupied by Russia.

Vorontsov Palace

From 1828 to 1846, Prince Mikhail Vorontsov , Governor General of New Russia , had the Vorontsov Palace built as his residence. The architect and planner of the romantic palace complex was the Englishman Edward Blore , who was one of the architects of Buckingham Palace in London. The building was realized by the English architect William Gunt. While the castle was built in the Moorish architectural style from the sea side (south view) , it has an English neo-Gothic style from the mountain side (north view) . The castle is surrounded by a huge English landscape park , which was created by the German landscape architect Karl Kebach. The creation of the park took several decades, as the climatic conditions and the stony soil made the work difficult. During the Yalta Conference in 1945 , Winston Churchill lived in the castle. An anecdote says that Churchill wanted to buy one of the four white lions on the stairs of the south portal of the palace, but Josef Stalin strictly refused to do so .

Mount Aj-Petri

Alupka is located on the southern slope of the 1234 m high mountain Aj-Petri ( Ukrainian and Russian Ай Петри , in German Saint Peter ), which is part of the Crimean Mountains . The mountain owes its bizarre appearance to its formation as a coral reef in the Jurassic Sea about 180 million years ago, which was raised with the entire Crimean Mountains.

Since 1987, a three-kilometer-long cable car has been leading up the mountain from Mishor , from which one has a wonderful view of the southern coast of the Crimea and the Black Sea . In summer you can go hiking and cycling on the mountain , in winter you can go skiing .