Yalta Municipality
Yalta City Municipality (russian: Я́лтинский городско́й сове́т; uk, Я́лтинська міська́ ра́да; crh, Yalta şeer şurası, Ялта шеэр шурасы), officially "the territory governed by the Yalta city council", also known as Greater Yalta (russian: Большая Ялта) is one of the 25 regions of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine but forcibly incorporated into Russia after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014. It is a resort region, located at the southern shore of Crimea – one of the most famous recreational territories of the former Soviet Union. Population: Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions of Russia, Yalta is, together with a number of urban and rural localities, incorporated separately as the town of republican significance of Yalta—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the di ...
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Municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the governing body of a given municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district. The term is derived from French and Latin . The English word ''municipality'' derives from the Latin social contract (derived from a word meaning "duty holders"), referring to the Latin communities that supplied Rome with troops in exchange for their own incorporation into the Roman state (granting Roman citizenship to the inhabitants) while permitting the communities to retain their own local governments (a limited autonomy). A municipality can be any political jurisdiction, from a sovereign state such as the Principality of Monaco, to a small village such as West Hampton Dunes, New York. Th ...
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Alupka
Alupka (Ukrainian and Russian: Алу́пка; crh, Alupka; gr, Ἀλώπηξ, Alòpex) is a resort city located in the Crimean peninsula, a territory of Ukraine currently annexed by Russian Federation (see 2014 Crimean crisis). It is located to the west of Yalta. It is famous for the Vorontsov Palace, designed by English architect Edward Blore in an extravagant mixture of Scottish baronial and Neo-Moorish styles and built in 1828–1846 for prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov.Population: 8,087 (2021). Area: 4.2246 km2. Sister-city: Apopka, Florida, USA. Alupka and its surrounding area is full of resort hotels on the shore of the Black Sea, where thousands of travelers (particularly from the former Soviet Union) travel every year. Public transport to Alupka includes the bus system (bus routes #26 and #27 from Yalta) and other road vehicles. Climate Located in the subtropical climate of southern Crimea, Alupka has an average temperature of in January–February and an aver ...
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Hirne, Yalta Municipality
Hirne ( uk, Гірне; russian: Горное) is a rural settlement in the Yalta Municipality of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and annexed by Russia as the Republic of Crimea. Previously, the settlement was known as the Eriklik ( crh, Eriklik) village Following the forced deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1944, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR published a decree on May 18, 1948 renaming the settlement along with many others throughout Crimea from their native Crimean Tatar names to their current variants.:ru:s:Указ Президиума ВС РСФСР от 18.05.1948 о переименовании населённых пунктов Крымской области, Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR from 18.05.1948 about the renaming of populated settlements in the Crimean Oblast (Указ Президиума ВС РСФСР от 18.05.1948 о переим� ...
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Vysokohirne, Yalta Municipality
Vysokohirne ( uk, Високогірне; russian: Высокогорное) is a rural settlement in the Yalta Municipality of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and annexed by Russia as the Republic of Crimea. Previously, the settlement was known as the Tuzler village ( crh, Tüzler). Following the forced deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1944, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR published a decree on May 18, 1948 renaming the settlement along with many others throughout Crimea from their native Crimean Tatar names to their current variants.:ru:s:Указ Президиума ВС РСФСР от 18.05.1948 о переименовании населённых пунктов Крымской области, Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR from 18.05.1948 about the renaming of populated settlements in the Crimean Oblast (Указ Президиума ВС РСФСР о ...
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Vynohradne
Vynohradne ( uk, Виноградне; russian: Виноградное; crh, Vinogradnoye) is an urban-type settlement in the Yalta Municipality of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and annexed by Russia as the Republic of Crimea. Vynohradne is located on Crimea's southern shore at an elevation of . The settlement is located east from Yalta. It is administratively subordinate to the Livadiya Settlement Council. Its population was 1,151 in the 2001 Ukrainian census The Ukrainian Census of 2001 is to date the only census of the population of independent Ukraine. It was conducted by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 5 December 2001, twelve years after the last Soviet Union census in 1989.

Livadiya, Crimea
Livadiya ( uk, Лівадія; russian: Ливадия; crh, Livadiya, Ливадия; ) is an urban-type settlement in Crimea; a region recognized by nearly every member of the international community as part of Ukraine but forcibly incorporated by Russia as the Republic of Crimea after invading Ukraine in 2014. It is located west of Yalta. Population: History A minor Crimean Tatar settlement in the Middle Ages, Livadiya was named thus by Lambros Katsonis, a Greek revolutionary and Imperial Russian Army officer, after Livadeia, Greece, the town he was born in, then part of the Ottoman Empire. Katsonis had been granted an estate there by Empress Catherine II, which he named thus. The estate later passed to the possession of the Potocki family and then, in 1861, it became a summer residence of the Russian tsars. Emperor Alexander III of Russia died there in 1894. The Livadia Palace, built in 1910–11, architect Nikolai Krasnov, is now a museum. It was formerly a summer pala ...
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Koreiz
Koreiz (, , ) is an urban-type settlement lying south-west of Yalta in the Yalta Municipality of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and incorporated by Russia as the Republic of Crimea. The name of the town means "villages" in Greek (χωρεία, chorèa). Koreiz absorbed the nearby spa of Miskhor in 1958. Population: Koreiz has arguably become best known as the site of two palaces: * The palace of Grand Duke Peter Nicolaievich of Russia, known as Dulber (''dülber'' in Crimean Tatar means "beautiful"), is an asymmetrical Moorish Revival architectural extravaganza with crenellated walls, silver domes, and more than 100 rooms, inspired by the Mameluk architecture of 15th-century Cairo. This palace was built between 1895 and 1897. * , an architect who worked on the imperial Livadia Palace in nearby Yalta, built the Yusupov Palace for Prince Felix Yusupov in 1909. The palace, whose style may be described as Re ...
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Krasnokamianka (urban-type Settlement)
Krasnokamianka ( uk, Краснокам'янка; russian: Краснока́менка, crh, Qızıltaş, also known as Kiziltash or Kyzyltash, the same word in Turkic dialects; literally, ''red stone'') is a resort and urban-type settlement in Yalta Municipality in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and incorporated by Russia as the Republic of Crimea. Population: Geography Krasnokamianka is a former Crimean Tatar village, now a part of Greater Yalta, on the northern coast of the Black Sea. It is near the headquarters of the Eurasian Scout Region, the divisional office of the World Scout Bureau of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in Gurzuf Gurzuf or Hurzuf ( uk, link=no, Гурзуф, russian: Гурзу́ф, crh, Gurzuf, gr, link=no, Γορζουβίται) is a resort-town (urban-type settlement) in Yalta Municipality of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized b .... Re ...
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Danylivka
Danylivka ( uk, Данилівка; russian: Даниловка) is a rural settlement in the Yalta Municipality of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and annexed by Russia as the Republic of Crimea. In 1928, the settlement was known as the Ay Danil sovkhoz ( uk, Ай-Даніль; crh, Ay Danil, probably from medieval Greek Άη Δανιήλ, Ai-Daniyl, Saint Daniel), belonging to the Hurzuf Settlement Council of the Yalta Raion. Following the forced deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1944, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR published a decree on May 18, 1948 renaming the settlement along with many others throughout Crimea from their native Crimean Tatar names to their current variants.:ru:s:Указ Президиума ВС РСФСР от 18.05.1948 о переименовании населённых пунктов Крымской области, Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of ...
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Gurzuf
Gurzuf or Hurzuf ( uk, link=no, Гурзуф, russian: Гурзу́ф, crh, Gurzuf, gr, link=no, Γορζουβίται) is a resort-town (urban-type settlement) in Yalta Municipality of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and incorporated by Russia as the Republic of Crimea. Population: It is located on the northern coast of the Black Sea. It is the site of a 6th-century fortress built by Justinian I and called by Procopius the fortress of the Gorzoubitai. The fortress was later restored by the Genoese who called the place Garzuni, Grasni, and Gorzanium, and appointed it the seat of a chief magistrate.John Buchan Telfer. ''The Crimea and Transcaucasia''. Forgotten Books, 2012. p.68. It was a former Crimean Tatar village, now a part of Greater Yalta. Alexander Pushkin visited Gurzuf in 1821 and ballet master Marius Petipa died here. The International Children Center Artek (former All-Union Young Pioneer camp A ...
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Gaspra
Gaspra ( uk, Гаспра, officially transliterated Haspra; russian: Гаспра; crh, Gaspra, from Greek hàspra, άσπρα, white) is a spa town, an urban-type settlement in Yalta Municipality in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. It is located on the Black Sea coast, west of Yalta, and is a popular holiday resort. Population: Leo Tolstoy lived in Gaspra in 1901 and 1902. Nearby are the Swallow's Nest, a modern castle and Charax, Crimea a Roman fort. The asteroid 951 Gaspra is named after the town. Climate Gaspra has an oceanic climate (Köppen: ''Cfb''). Notable landmarks Tourist attractions in the vicinity include the Roman castrum of Charax and the romantic castle of Swallow's Nest. People from Gaspra * Ismail Gasprinski, Crimean Tatar intellectual, educator, publisher and politician. Twin towns — sister cities * Tirilye Tirilye (also known as Zeytinbağı, ''Olive yard'') is a town in Bursa Province, Turkey, situated west of Mudanya along the Marmara ...
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Sanatorne
Sanatorne ( uk, Санаторне; russian: Санаторное; crh, Melas, from Greek Μέλας) is an urban-type settlement in the Yalta Municipality of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and annexed by Russia as the Republic of Crimea. Sanatorne is located on Crimea's southern shore at an elevation of . The settlement is located east from Foros, which it is administratively subordinate to. Its population was 531 in the 2001 Ukrainian census The Ukrainian Census of 2001 is to date the only census of the population of independent Ukraine. It was conducted by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 5 December 2001, twelve years after the last Soviet Union census in 1989.