10 Facts About Yalta

Yalta is a resort city on the south coast of the Crimean Peninsula surrounded by the Black Sea.

Term "Greater Yalta" is used to designate a part of the Crimean southern coast spanning from Foros in the west to Gurzuf in the east and including the city of Yalta and multiple adjacent urban settlements.

Existence of Yalta was first recorded in the 12th century by an Arab geographer, who described it as a Byzantine port and fishing settlement.

Crimea was captured by the Ottoman Empire in 1475, which made it a semi-independent subject territory under the rule of the Crimean Khanate but the southern coast with Yalta was under direct Ottoman rule forming the Eyalet of Kefe .

Leo Tolstoy spent summers there and Anton Chekhov in 1898 bought a house here, where he lived till 1902; Yalta is the setting for Chekhov's short story, "The Lady with the Dog", and such prominent plays as The Three Sisters were written in Yalta.

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Yalta was occupied by the German Army from 9 November 1941 to 16 April 1944.

Yalta is crowded in the vacation season and prices for accommodation are very high.

Yalta has a beautiful seafront promenade along the Black Sea.

Two beaches in Yalta are Blue Flag beaches since May 2010, these were the first beaches to be awarded a Blue Flag in a CIS member state.

Yalta has a humid subtropical climate that closely borders on a Mediterranean climate.