Massandra

Massandra

Масандра

Massandra

Basic data

Oblast :

Autonomous Republic of Crimea

Rajon :

City of Yalta

Height :

no information

Area :

Information is missing

Residents :

7,358 (2004)

Postcodes :

98650

Area code :

+380 654

Geographic location :

44 ° 31 ' N , 34 ° 12' E Coordinates: 44 ° 30 '42 " N , 34 ° 11' 51" E

KOATUU :

111948100

Administrative structure :

5 urban-type settlements

Mayor :

Lyubov Arsamasova

Address:

вул. Стаханівська 21
98650 смт. Масандра

Statistical information

Massandra

Massandra (Ukrainian Масандра ; Russian Массандра ) is an urban-type settlement in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea immediately adjacent to Yalta on the subtropical south coast of the Crimean peninsula in the Black Sea in Ukraine . The place Massandra originally emerged as a Greek settlement. Today it is divided into the four other Widradne / Відрадне, Voschod / Восход, Nikita / Нікіта and Sowjetske / Совєтське in addition to the eponymous settlement .

Hunting lodge

Front view of the Massandra Palace

Rear view of the Massandra Palace

In 1783, Massandra was acquired by the daughter of the Polish nobleman Lew Potocki, who then began building an 80 hectare park and a castle in the first half of the 19th century . Later the governor general of New Russia bought the property and after his death it became the property of Tsar Alexander III. over. He had a three-story, imaginatively designed hunting lodge - the Massandra Palace - built in the French style of the 17th century in the upper part of the property . During the Soviet era, the castle was used as the closely guarded state dacha of the Central Committee of the CPSU and Joseph Stalin spent his summer holidays here. The castle has been open to visitors since the end of the Soviet Union .

Winery

Massandra Krim wine - born in 1944 - with varnish seal from the Massandra winery

The Massandra winery is a well-known state winery . Heavy, sweet (up to 35% sugar content) red , port and white wines are harvested from around 2,500 hectares of vineyards . The winery was built in 1894 for the sole purpose of supplying the Liwadija summer residence of the then and last Russian tsar Nicholas II (1868–1918) with wine and Crimean sparkling wine .

traffic

Massandra has been served by the longest trolleybus line in the world since 1961 . It is operated by the Krymskyj trolejbus company and runs between Simferopol, Alushta and Yalta .

Eponyms

In 1993 the asteroid (3298) Massandra was named after the suburb.

sons and daughters of the town

Bolesław Cybis (1895–1957), Polish-American painter, sculptor, and ceramicist

Web links

Website of the Massandra Winery (Russian)