Non-resort of Crimea

There is situated the oldest building in the territory of modern Russia, has just passed under its jurisdiction. Kerch - a small town (150 thous. Inhabitants), on the eastern tip of the Crimean peninsula. Despite its location around a small bay in the Kerch Strait between the Black and Azov seas, the city has never been a resort. There are very few beaches and resorts, but there are several ports, fishing harbors, piers, shipyards and strictly "ground" of enterprises. Therefore, the city center is not similar to other Crimean cities.
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1. Almost all not numerous entertainment infrastructure of the city is in one place.



2. Something resembling a pedestrian boulevard - just a short alley between Dimitrov unequipped promenade and Lenin Square. Yes, and entertainment facilities occupy only the right side of the lane.



3. A along its left side stretches Square, which is an amazing historical monument of Byzantine culture with more than thousand-year history.



4. This is the church of St. John the Baptist, referring to the Byzantine period in the history of the Crimea.



5. The current appearance of the church in many ways has been formed in the XIX century, when a small Phillips built a temple chapels and bell tower.



6. The oldest part of the temple can be seen from the apse. Now the temple is in the midst of a significant depression in the midst of the centuries-old cultural layer.



7. Behind the temple is the main square of the city, traditionally named after Lenin.



8. From it begins a shady pedestrian street of the same name.



9. But our path lies in the other direction, to the monuments of ancient Greek culture. On the way to see the school building of the late XIX century, still works for its intended purpose.



10. At the foot of the column is set to the portrait of Mithridates VI Eupator (it went from Yevpatoria), the former in the years 121-63 BC. e. king of the Bosporus state, whose capital is Kerch, then bearing the name Panticapaeum.



11. On the mountain, where there was an ancient city, now it is possible to climb the Great Mitridatskoy stairs decorated with figures of griffins.



12. Top offers panoramic views of the central part of the city, visible Lenin Square and the Church of St. John the Baptist.



14. Here they are, the ruins Panticapaeum based Greek colonists from Miletus in the end of VII century BC. e. Παντικάπαιον name means "fish way".



15. excavated foundations are V-III century BC. e.



16.Pantikapey lasted until the V century BC. e., and then it came under the authority of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.



17. In the center of the settlement, archaeologists have restored arch.



18. Late Antiquity, the northern slope of Mount Mithridates was turned into a cemetery. Here in the XIX century it was discovered many sarcophagi, some of them were made of wood.



19. Now Mount Mithridates sarcophagi can be seen in the exhibition of the State Hermitage.



20. coffins in the Hermitage exhibited many other ancient monuments of Kerch.



21. It is hard to believe that for many centuries the vessel remained intact.



22. Who described hundreds of crypts III-V centuries, but on the assumptions under Mount Mithridates may be more than three thousand graves.



23. And on the top of the hill is the eternal flame, is not currently valid.



24. Just below, at the end of Mitridatskoy stairs, built a memorial to the liberators of the Crimea during World War II.



25. Today, Mount Mithridates - the main point for viewing the surrounding area. Hence all Kerch at a glance.



26. At the foot of the mountain juts into the bay of Genoa pier and catwalk the night club where you can if you wish to plunge into the sea water and lie down on the sand, but wishing is not observed.



27. But the people bathe in the municipal water station, where there is a diving board.



28. If you look into the waters of the strait, you can see the Krasnodar region. In the foreground of the island of Tuzla, and in the distance seen tanks bunker complex in Taman.



29. A much closer - a city park with a Ferris wheel, which is below the top of the observation deck.



30. Panorama shipyard and trading port.



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32. On the other hand see the tank in the 2nd district of the commercial port transshipment.



33. The distance viewed shafts and bastions of the fortress of Kerch. Before her 4 kilometers.



34. Came Down a Mountain, and to explore the city's other attractions. In the middle of the bus is the burial crypt of the times of Plato and Aristotle - Melek-Chismensky mound.



35. Burial consists of two parts - the dromos, the entrance to which is decorated with a pediment, and the burial chamber itself.



36. Within the structure of the collected shifted relative to each other stone slabs, forming a stepped vault.



37. Vault size of 4 by 4 meters has a pyramidal vault. It was plundered in ancient times, and now completely empty.



38. In 1474 Kerch passed by the Republic of Genoa to the Ottoman Empire. On the shore of the Strait of Kerch, on the far outskirts of the city is a monument to a very different period in the life of Kerch - Turkish fortress Yeni-Kale.



39. The fortress occupies a vast area of ​​6 hectares.



40. In its walls splashing sea waves.



41. The fortress was built at the narrowest point of the Kerch Strait in 1706, not to give exit to the Black Sea Russian led by Peter I, who took in 1696 a fortress Azov.



42. Inside are several gates.



43. The garrison of the fortress was more than a thousand people.



44. Inside the fortress were the powder magazine, armory, water tank, houses, bath, a mosque and a residence of the Turkish pasha.



45. The most remarkable part of the fortress is a small polubastion, where archaeologists have recovered the turret to fire the enemy.



46. ​​Walls polubastiona form a closed courtyard with a well in the middle.



47. During the Russian-Turkish war of 1768-1774 the fortress was taken without a fight. By Kuchuk Kaynarca agreement Kerch and Yeni Kale was transferred to Russia.



48. By the XIX century castle completely lost its military importance, and in 1835 on its territory to deploy a military hospital, which existed until 1880. After Yeni Kale was finally abandoned.



49. In the XX century it was restored, but most of it still remains in a state of ruinirovannom. It passes right through the railway line to the port of Crimea.



50. At the half-way from the center of Kerch in Yeni Kale is the oldest building in the territory of the former Soviet Union - the burial place of one of the rulers of the kingdom of the Bosporus dynasty Spartocids - Royal mound. The crypt is hidden in a hill 17 meters high.



51. Dromos mound 36 meters in length is made up of blocks and the shape of a fir tree, which was considered by the ancient Greeks, the dead tree.



52. The width of the corridor is not constant: it extends closer to the entrance to the burial chamber.



53. The walls are covered with cracks dromosa from numerous earthquakes in the Crimea with IV century BC. e., as well as crosses, carved by early Christians.



54. Summary of the burial chamber is striking: in the basement of a monolithic rock resting tall dome, assembled from 12 concentric rings. As Melek-Chismensky, the Imperial barrow was plundered in ancient times, archaeologists got only fragments of a wooden coffin.



55. A stone's throw from the royal burial mounds are Adzhimushkayskie quarry, but in photography is strictly prohibited, as they are considered war memorial. Although there is an impressive museum, will have to limit ourselves to a single image.



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