General information and brief history of Alushta
Alushta is a city located on the southern coast of Crimea. This is what has attracted many people here for many years who want to relax by the sea. Everything here is not as prim and expensive as in neighboring Yalta, but this is still the South Coast.
Rotunda on the Embankment. Symbol of the city of Alushta
The Alushta residents themselves, by the way, believe that their city is better than Yalta in all respects. They contemptuously call it “the pit,” hinting at the location being closed, both from the sea and from the mountains. In Alushta itself, everything is completely different. It is open to both all winds and all currents. Therefore, it is believed that this is where the cleanest sea and the cleanest air are on the entire southern coast of Crimea. Moreover, the city of Alushta owes its origin precisely to its location. When the warlike but very hardworking Genoese came here many years ago, they considered the coast of Alushta a suitable place to build a fortress. Thus, in the 6th century, the Aluston fortress was built, which served as a defensive and observation point for a long time. It was she who gave the city both its beginning and its name. After all, the town that formed around the fortress began to be called Lusta, there was a pier here, and the city was of quite great commercial importance.
The surviving tower of the Aluston fortress
After Crimea was conquered by the Turks, Alushta turned into a small settlement on the ruins of the fortress and former glory and became part of the Sudak Kadylyk. However, it was here that during the Crimean War the main Turkish troops landed, and a big battle took place, in which the future field marshal, and then colonel, Mikhail Kutuzov, was seriously wounded. This place is known to many due to the fact that the Kutuzov fountain is located there. Which, according to legend, cured the commander.
Alushta received the status of a city and resort at the beginning of the 20th century, in 1902. This date is considered the moment of birth of the city of Alushta.
Old Alushta in the 20s
City Day is celebrated here on June 1-2, coinciding with the beginning of the holiday season. The city is quite small in area, only about 12 square meters. kilometers, however, this is only within the boundaries of the city itself, together with the Professor’s Corner, because Alushta includes all the surrounding villages that form Greater Alushta and together have a fairly significant area.
How to get there
Getting to the Alushta resort in Crimea is quite easy. Trolleybus No. 51 runs from Simferopol (from the railway station), and from the airport you can take trolleybus No. 54. An alternative to this type of transport is taxis and minibuses, which start from the Central Station.
We hope that after reading the description of the Alushta resort in Crimea, you fell in love with this beautiful city in absentia and planned a trip here to get to know it personally.
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Climate and ecology of Alushta
The city is located on the very shore of the Black Sea, in the southern part of the Crimean Peninsula. It is closed from the land by several mountains, but not as a continuous massif, like Yalta, but by separate peaks. So, in the east there is Mount Demerdzhi, in the north is Chatyrdag, and in the west, near the sea, is the extinct volcano Kastel. Between these mountains there is a constant movement of air currents that bring fresh air and constant winds to the city.
View of Mount Chatyrdag
Thanks to this, summer in Alushta is not at all stuffy. The climate here is subtropical, with very mild winters and hot summers. The holiday season, which is the time when you can swim in the sea, lasts here from the beginning of May to the end of October. Usually at this time the sea water is within +17 degrees.
However, the location of the city sometimes makes its own adjustments to this state of affairs. After all, there are many currents around Alushta, and water is often carried into the sea by the shoreline. This makes it cleaner than other cities on the coast, but creates certain inconveniences for lovers of warm water. It is not at all uncommon for the water to be around +13 degrees in July, in the heat of the day.
The air temperature usually does not change like that, in winter it is about +3 degrees, in the coldest and windiest month - February, and in summer +25, on average. There is a lot of sun in Alushta; according to weather forecasters, it pleases residents and guests of the city about 2321 times a year. Precipitation here is not very frequent, but quite heavy. In the memory of city residents, there is even one flood that happened here in 1997.
There are strong storms here that leave behind destruction of the embankment, and real hurricanes. Fortunately, such occurrences are not that common. In addition, Alushta is located in an earthquake-prone area. And from time to time its residents are frightened by a possible earthquake, similar to the one that happened in the 20s of the 20th century and brought significant destruction to the South Coast, most of all in Yalta. It’s good that such fears have no real basis yet.
The environment in the city is quite good. Although I must admit that before it was still better. A headache for city residents is the city landfill, to which they strive to dump garbage and other waste from all over the South Coast. Residents even organize pickets and rallies so that city authorities solve this problem. This fall, the landfill even burned for a long time, releasing many carcinogens and other harmful substances into the atmosphere. The fire was difficult to extinguish and was directly linked to waste disposal problems and landfill overload.
The Alushta landfill is on fire. Photo by dimon (https://alushtalive.com/profile/dimon/)
In addition, Alushta residents are very concerned about the state of wastewater treatment facilities in the city. After all, all the waste is discharged into the sea, which does not add to its purity. The city has several rivers flowing into the sea, one of which is Ulu-Uzen. As well as a reservoir located in the village of Izobilnoye and supplying the entire city with water.
There are many lakes around Alushta, both natural and artificial. They contain fish and fishing is allowed. Also on the slopes of Chatyr-Dag is the Alushta Nature Reserve, which has a unique spring. It is called Savlukh-Su and is very rich in silver content in the water. This water is called Monastyrskaya because a monastery is located near the source.
Weather
Not far from the city there are two mountain passes: Angarsky and Kebit-Bogaz, which helped create a favorable climate in the city. Therefore, Alushta in Crimea is a year-round resort, where it is warm all year round.
- The summer period in Alushta, despite the high temperatures, is easily tolerated thanks to the light breeze and air circulation. There is practically no rain. The average temperature in June is +24, in July + 28, in August + 27. The swimming season officially begins in May and ends in October. But those who prefer a warmer sea are recommended to come to the resort in July-August, when the water temperature reaches +26...+27 degrees.
- Winter here is as warm, mild, relatively humid and short-lived as in Yalta. The average January temperature is +4 degrees. Thermometers rarely fall below 0 degrees.
- Spring and autumn also delight with their warmth and sunny days. For those who travel to Alushta in Crimea for health improvement, it is recommended to choose this time: prices are lower, there are not so many people. Late spring and autumn are ideal for excursions, when it is no longer so hot and you can calmly walk, enjoy the views, and breathe in pine air enriched with iodine.
Population of Alushta
Alushta is a very hospitable city. About 29 thousand people of different nationalities live here. In the summer, during the holiday season, the population of Alushta sometimes increases 10-15 times. The ethnic composition of the population is approximately the same as throughout Crimea. About 60% of the population are Russians, 20% are Crimean Tatars, 14% are Ukrainians and 6% are other nationalities. Such as Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Greeks, Bulgarians, Karaites, Poles and Belarusians. This picture is strikingly different from the one that existed before the war. At that time, Crimean Tatars made up about 70% of the city’s total population.
After the war, when the Tatars were deported and the city was greatly deserted, settlers from all over the Soviet Union flocked here. They were traveling for the warm sea and easy resort life. Many health resorts were built here and needed to be serviced. Therefore, no offense to modern Alushta residents, but the bulk of the urban population was not the intelligentsia. However, this does not prevent Alushta residents from being proud of their famous fellow countrymen - writers Sergei Sergeev-Tsensky and Ivan Shmelev, as well as academician of architecture Alexei Beketov, who spent many summer months at his Alushta dacha.
Now the population of Alushta is quite educated, although it is still focused on serving vacationers. Which is not surprising, since this is the main source of income.
Concert in the center of Alushta. Photo by operket (https://alushta24.org/user/153/)
The hobbies of Alushta residents have long been sports and tourism. It was these two directions that actively developed here in Soviet times and were also passed on to modern Alushta youth. The city has excellent conditions for sports. After all, the Spartak Olympic base is located here, where there are many areas for training. There is also a real Olympic-standard stadium, open to everyone who wants to run.
Entrance to Spartak stadium
Tourism is well developed; there are several tourist clubs in the city, including speleological clubs. And this is not in vain, because in addition to the pleasure of hiking, residents get to know their native Crimea, and this helps them earn money with excursions, if necessary.
Malorechenskoye
The village is surrounded by vineyards, as wineries that are part of the Massandra plant are located next to it. It is also known as a place for a beach holiday.
Malorechenskoye is a village in the urban district of Alushta, 25 kilometers from Alushta towards Feodosia (the Alushta-Feodosia highway passes through the village).
The village is surrounded by vineyards, as wineries that are part of the Massandra plant . It is also known as a place for a beach holiday.
Beaches of Malorechenskoye
The local beaches are covered with pebbles and gray sand, the entry into the water is quite gentle, and the water is clean. There have been a lot of vacationers lately, so Malorechensk beach cannot be called secluded. However, there are many picturesque wild beaches in the surrounding area, and if you walk along the coast towards the neighboring village of Solnechnogorskoye, you can get to a small nudist beach.
The infrastructure in the village is quite modest - there are shops and cafes, but no attractions or entertainment, so this is a place for those who like a quiet holiday.
What to do in Malorechenskoye
If you walk towards Solnechnogorsk, you can see a natural landmark - the stone chaos “Tuzlukh” (“Salt shaker”). Huge boulders vaguely resemble a salt shaker with holes. One of the rocks received the nickname “Cheese” for its resemblance to a piece of cheese with many holes.
However, the main attraction for which Malorechenskoye is worth visiting at least for one day is the new memorial complex in memory of those who died on the waters. On the territory of the complex there is a temple of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker of rather unusual architecture (the temple is very high and can serve as a lighthouse for ships thanks to the lantern above the main dome). The Museum of Water Disasters is located in the basement of the temple .
Districts and real estate in Alushta
As mentioned earlier, Alushta is not just the city itself, but also the villages surrounding it. All together it is called Big Alushta and is such a unique form of the region. After all, there are simply no districts on the Crimean coast.
Bolshaya Alushta includes the villages of Luchistoye, Izobilnoye, Rozovoe, Verkhnyaya Kutuzovka, Nizhnyaya Kutuzovka, Privetnoye, Malorechenskoye, Semidvorye, Kiparisnoye, Solnechnogorskoye and Rybachye. With a total area of 600 sq. kilometers, versus 12 square kilometers of the area of Alushta itself.
The city has no administrative division into districts. He's too small for that. Officially, only the Professor's Corner, which in Soviet times was called the Workers' Corner, is considered a separate district. Naberezhnaya Street, on which there is no housing, can also be considered a separate area.
Alushta embankment
Unofficially, Alushta has a fairly clear regional zoning. This is the center, Cheryomushki, st. Sudakskaya, Mirny microdistrict, st. Yaltinskaya, st. Oktyabrskaya and st. 60 years of the USSR. All these areas have their own characteristics, advantages and disadvantages.
View of Alushta from the street. Oktyabrskaya
Professor's Corner
The Professor's Corner is mostly a resort area. There are many health resorts and very few residential buildings. They are mainly represented by the private sector adjacent to health resorts. And people who work in sanatoriums and boarding houses nearby usually live in such houses.
Apart from the beautiful nature around and the proximity of the sea, there is nothing good to live in Professor’s Corner. After all, it is remote from the main part of Alushta and there is no school, no kindergarten, or even normal shops aimed at residents.
Housing is practically not for sale here. This is due to the fact that the bulk of the houses are built on land that belongs to the territory of health resorts, and it is not so easy to sell them legally. However, the price for such housing is still very high. A fairly flimsy house can be bought in this area for 120-130 thousand dollars, and a decent modern house is even higher.
View of the professor's corner. Photo by Juliana (https://fotki.yandex.ru/users/ladyjully/)
Oktyabrskaya street area
Oktyabrskaya Street is divided into lower and upper parts, separated by a road leading to the Professor's Corner and also bearing the name of Oktyabrskaya Street. Thus, this street is a real microdistrict of Alushta and looks like several streets in different directions. The upper part of Oktyabrskaya is mostly built up with houses built in the 90s. These are nine-story buildings of a typical type.
Upper part of the street Oktyabrskaya
Apartments in them cost from 45 thousand dollars for a one-room apartment and up to 80-90 thousand for a two-room apartment. There is also a large new building on Upper Oktyabrskaya, which took a long time to build, to the dissatisfaction of the residents of the surrounding houses. Because the road next to the construction site was constantly sliding down, and it had to be blocked and strengthened. In addition, this house blocked the beautiful view of the city for many people.
New building on Oktyabrskaya street
Apartments in a building with a view cost from $1,200 per square meter. A little lower, around the route to the Professor's Corner, there are typical five-story buildings of the Khrushchev and Brezhnev eras. Apartments in them are only 5-10% cheaper than in more recent buildings, because they have one advantage: they are located lower and closer to the sea.
There is also one of the largest sanatoriums in Alushta - a military sanatorium of the Ministry of Defense. It has a large and beautiful park, which was previously open to the public, but is now closed on all sides. Therefore, to get to the sea, you have to take a detour. Either down, strictly speaking, Oktyabrskaya Street, or through the private sector to Gorky Street.
The private sector adjacent to Oktyabrskaya Street is a fairly prestigious place in the city. The cost of a house here starts from 180 thousand dollars and can reach 300 thousand, depending on the area, size of the plot and the condition of the house itself. On Oktyabrskaya there is a kindergarten, many shops, and the Alushta branch of Krymenergo is located in its upper part. A place where people go to pay for electricity and check their bills.
Yaltinskaya street area
Yaltinskaya Street is located in the center of the Bus Station, between Oktyabrskaya and 60 Let USSR streets. This street also represents an entire microdistrict. The houses here are built in different years. Closer to the bus station, called a bus station in Alushta, there are five-story buildings, and in the depths there are more recent nine-story buildings.
Yaltinskaya street
Apartment prices here are about 10% higher than on Oktyabrskaya. This is due to the fact that the street is located in an almost flat plane, there are no sharp uphills and downhills, as in neighboring microdistricts. The central place here is the bus station and its square. There used to be a large market on it, but now it has been moved, and many shops remain, including a supermarket of the ATB chain.
There is a school and a culinary school in Yalta, which is now proudly called a branch of the Crimean republican vocational school institution “Simferopol Higher Vocational School of Restaurant Service and Tourism.” There is also a kindergarten here.
It is very common for residents of the microdistrict to build garages with residential superstructures at the end of the street. This is convenient because of the opportunity to rent out an apartment and move into such a garage-cottage for the summer. There are no new buildings on Yalta.
District of the street 60 years of the USSR
Street 60 let USSR or, as it is called in Alushta, helicopter, is another microdistrict formed by one street on the mountain. It is believed that this is the highest residential area of Alushta. However, this can be argued. There are houses here, both five-story buildings, located lower, and high-rise ones, more recently built.
View of the microdistrict 60 years of the USSR
The price level for apartments is no different from Oktyabrskaya Street. This is approximately from 45 thousand dollars for a one-room apartment, 55 thousand for a two-room apartment and from 70 thousand for a three-room apartment. There are two kindergartens here, one of which has not been working for a long time. At the bottom of the helicopter there is an indoor market, which was built at the end of the USSR with the aim of moving the vegetable market from the center. The idea failed, and clothing dealers firmly established themselves in the market.
Popovskaya beam
This area is the only Alushta industrial zone. At its very beginning stands the building of a former toy factory, which once produced beautiful wooden little horses and plastic chickens that tapped their noses on a plate. The toy factory has been closed for a long time. And in the industrial zone there are various warehouses and construction sites. There are also so-called grocery stores, where city residents like to buy food at prices cheaper than in city stores. Popovskaya beam is the most dusty and polluted area in the city. At the very end is motocross, where competitions are regularly held.
Microdistrict Mirny
Once upon a time, the Mirny microdistrict could be called in one word - “outback”. But now there are many new houses there, mostly built by the Consol construction company. This is the richest district of Alushta for budget new buildings. There is also a lot of old housing stock, in which apartments are perhaps the most inexpensive in Alushta.
View of the Mirny microdistrict
A one-room apartment on Mirny can be purchased at a price of 35 thousand dollars, and a three-room apartment from 55 thousand. In new buildings, prices are of course higher, starting from $1000 per 1 sq. m. meter. The infrastructure of this microdistrict leaves much to be desired. Apart from a couple of run-down shops there is nothing else here. But the air is fresh.
Central part of the city
The center includes the hospital area, Simferopolskaya Street, the central part of Lenin Street and the areas adjacent to the embankment. There are mostly old housing developments here with small sporadic inclusions of new buildings. New buildings can hardly be classified as budget ones. Rather, this is business class housing with elite claims. Apartments in the old building are quite expensive here. After all, it’s not far from the sea and the terrain is flat.
Baglikova Street, rise to Sovetskaya Square
Prices start from 50 thousand dollars. In new buildings from 1500 per 1 square meter of housing. In the center there are many shops, a hospital, children's and adult clinics, and a church. The only functioning cinema and two dolphinariums at once. Not far from the hospital there is school No. 1. There are many private houses in the central part of Alushta.
Private house in the center of Alushta
Many of them have been converted by their owners into mini-boarding houses. House prices start at $150,000 and go up.
Sudakskaya street area
Sudakskaya Street starts from the entrance to Alushta from Simferopol. This is a fairly long street, and there are both private houses and high-rise buildings. Housing prices here are about the same as Oktyabrskaya or Yalta, the courtyards are very cozy. There is a kindergarten and a school.
On the road towards the center there are several new buildings and pieces of an industrial zone with warehouses. There are also many health resorts located here, such as the Veteran sanatorium, the Magnolia boarding house, and the Zolotoy Kolos sanatorium. There is a dairy and a bakery along Krasnoarmeyskaya Street.
Cheryomushki District
This area of old buildings is named after the once popular Moscow Cheryomushki. It includes the street. Lenin and st. Partisan. There is an old post-war housing stock here, but the prices for apartments are no less than in new buildings.
Partizanskaya Street
There is an ATB store, pharmacies and quite cozy green courtyards. A new high-rise residential building has been built on the site of an old furniture factory, with apartment prices starting at $1,200 per 1 sq. m. meter. There is also a small market with vegetables and fruits.
Entertainment
Alushta has entertainment for adults and children. One of the most popular places is the water park at the Almond Grove , located in the Professor's Corner at st. Embankment, 4a. The water park features various attractions , a VIP area, wave pools, children's pools and play pools.
The cost of entry depends on the time of visit and length of stay: adult tickets - from 1100 rubles, children's tickets - from 600 rubles, admission for children under 1 meter in height is free.
Also, young travelers can visit the largest children's entertainment center , which provides entertainment for children from 2 to 12 years old: carousels, swings, trampolines, a labyrinth with a climbing wall and a bungee jump, and a soft area for kids.
The cost of visiting is from 200 to 700 rubles. depending on length of stay.
There are two dolphinariums in the city : NEMO and Aquarelle . Both dolphinariums offer their visitors vibrant shows with the participation of charismatic artists - dolphins and fur seals, swimming and photography with dolphins and dolphin therapy sessions.
The cost of tickets for the show program at NEMO is 500-800 rubles, at Akvarel - 500-1000 rubles.
On Gorky Street, 4 there is a real underwater world - Aquarium , where visitors can admire 250 species of fish, look at crocodiles, crabs and turtles. In the trolleybus ticket office building, behind which the Aquarium is located, the exhibition “Jungle World” . The small wilderness area is home to monkeys, raccoons, turtles, rabbits and several species of birds.
The cost of entrance tickets is 400-600 rubles, a visit to the “Jungle World” is included in the price of tickets to the Aquarium.
You can also look at the animals in Alushta Animal Park , located at Embankment named after. Lenina, 13. A large climatic pavilion, adapted to the natural living conditions of animals and birds, accommodates more than 50 species of inhabitants, including fennec fox, arctic fox, lemur, porcupine, emu and many others.
Ticket prices are 400-600 rubles.
Infrastructure of Alushta
The roads in Alushta leave much to be desired for the most part. Of course, the central streets have a more or less decent appearance, but in residential neighborhoods everything is very bad. Since the city is small and a resort, there is no particularly intense traffic here.
Bus station
Of course, in the summer, at the height of the season, when the city is flooded with visiting cars, city residents become familiar with the concept of traffic jams. But still, these are not the kind of traffic jams that are familiar to residents of megacities.
Public transport has recently been very well presented in Alushta. There are many buses that run on schedule and connect all areas of the city. There are also two city trolleybuses, one of which goes towards Professor’s Corner, and the second along the Simferopol highway to Verkhnyaya Kutuzovka.
City trolleybus
There are also famous intercity trolleybuses that can be used to get to Yalta and Simferopol.
There are three schools in Alushta, they are located evenly throughout the city, so getting there for children is very convenient and close. As for kindergartens, there is a problem of lack of places.
The condition of the housing sector is good, however, there are problems with water. So, cold water is supplied on schedule in the off-season, but there is no hot water all year round. Therefore, residents equip their apartments with electric boilers. Most houses in Alushta are gasified; there are no problems with gas. City residents pay separately for all utilities to the relevant services. The average price tag for a two-room apartment with installed water meters is about $70 per month.
Another feature of the city is that elevators in those buildings where they exist are paid. One trip costs about 5 cents, and in order to be able to use the elevator, you need to buy a special chip at Krymlift and periodically top it up with money. There is a city hospital in the city with a large number of departments and 2 clinics.
Alushta City Hospital
What can you visit?
Alushta has many wonderful attractions that are worth visiting both for adult travelers and those who come with children. The most beautiful and picturesque places are located outside the city.
These are protected areas, majestic mountain ranges, caves and green valleys . Within the city there are historical sights and a number of entertainment places popular with tourists.
Attractions
- Among the main attractions of the city, it is worth noting the romantic palace of Princess Gagarina , the Aluston fortress with a centuries-old history, the medieval fortification of Funa , the Golubka dacha and the house of the gold merchant Stakheev . The visiting card of the resort is the Rotunda on the embankment.
- Natural attractions are no less popular among tourists. While vacationing in Alushta, it is worth visiting the Crimean Nature Reserve , the deep waterfall Dzhur-Dzhur , the Valley of Ghosts on the slope of Demerdzhi and numerous caves .
Hiking in the mountains
The hills of Alushta are very picturesque and beautiful . Being natural monuments of nature, they always arouse great interest among tourists.
Advice! Independent hiking in the mountains is not recommended for beginners, since many routes are inaccessible without special training and are simply difficult. There are impenetrable thickets and deep ravines here. It is best to take part in mountain hikes organized by experienced guides.
Excursions to Demerdzhi and Chatyr-Dag . The most popular place is the Valley of Ghosts with its bizarre sculptures, located on the top of Demerdzhi. It is here that you can see stone animals, the figure of a hooded monk and a woman’s profile. In the evening, the sculptures seem to come to life, casting eerie shadows. From the top of Demerdzhi there is also an extraordinary view of the Kastel , whose height is 439 meters.
Chatyr-Dag is considered the best observation point on the peninsula. From its highest point - Eklizi-Burun (height - 1525 m) - in clear weather you can see most of Crimea. Also on Chatyr-Dag there are a large number of interesting caves , attracting with their caves with underground labyrinths.
From Alushta you can also hike to the mountains Chamnye Muruy, Liu Dat and Uraga.
Parks
In the parks of Alushta you can see exotic Asian and Mediterranean plants: Italian pine, Atlas and Himalayan cedar, oriental plane tree, Lankaran albizia.
A favorite place for city residents and tourists is the Seaside Park , located near the rotunda. The park is equipped with recreation areas, playgrounds and sports grounds, and there are outdoor cafes on the territory. You can get there by minibuses No. 2, 4, 5, 5A, 6, 7, 8, 9, 26 and 34 from the bus station to the Sovetskaya Ploshchad stop.
There are other parks on the territory of Big Alushta , visiting which is a real pleasure. For example, the ancient park of the Utes sanatorium in the village of Utes of the same name, 0.3 km from the city center. It consists, in fact, of two parks - Utyosovsky and the Karasan palace and park ensemble (Partenit village). In this vast area you can see centuries-old plants: thousand-year-old yew and boxwood, which is 800 years old.
Enterprises and work in Alushta
Alushta is a resort city. Therefore, there is enough work here during the season not only for local residents, but also for numerous visitors to earn money. For the most part, this work is related to serving vacationers and selling various goods and services. Working at a waterfront retail outlet during the season, a salesperson can earn about $30 or more per day. Working in a cafe or restaurant, you can earn the same amount. Maids or administrators in health resorts and hotels receive wages ranging from $400 per season and about $300 in the off-season. There are quite a large number of hotels and boarding houses operating all year round in Alushta. These include the More boarding house, the Radisson hotel, and the Crimean Dawns boarding house.
View of the Raddison Hotel from the east coast of Alushta
Among the operating enterprises in the city, we can highlight a dairy factory, a bakery factory, an essential oil factory and, of course, the NPO Massandra winery.
Essential oil plant on the street. April 15
Massandra also includes a state farm, which grows a lot of grapes and peaches and provides work for at least 15% of Alushta residents, and sometimes also visiting workers. On a state farm, wages depend on meeting standards, but for a worker it is approximately $350 all year round. In addition, workers are provided with meals at lunch, a social package and, if necessary, a hostel.
Gate of the Massandra winery
The state farm is also good because it has branches in all the villages that are part of Big Alushta. This allows their residents to work without traveling far from home.
The main type of income for city residents is renting out housing in the summer and various types of trade. Therefore, it is very important for the well-being of the townspeople that the season be successful. Then there will be enough funds to survive the winter normally. In winter, after a successful season, a construction and renovation boom begins in the city, and work appears for various repairmen and finishers.
There is also a trolleybus depot in Alushta that services intercity trolleybuses, where you can work as a trolleybus driver with a salary of 350-400 dollars, a controller or dispatcher.
Alushta Park
Walking along the embankment, you will certainly come to one of the parks in Alushta. The park is small and unkempt. The park has shady walkways, children's playgrounds and places to relax.
Artists Alley
In the park area there is the Alushta Dolphinarium “Nemo”, which is open all year round.
Dolphinarium address: Revkomovsky lane, 10 (near the Spartak stadium). Dolphinarium website: nemo-alushta.
Stella, buried members of the government of the SSR Tauris and other active participants who contributed to the establishment of Soviet power in Crimea.
Mass grave
As well as Stakheev’s dacha (Perekopskaya street 1), other sculptures, gazebos and monuments
Crime in Alushta
Crime in Alushta intensifies, like the rest of life in the city, during the season. Visiting tour performers rob, steal, break into cars and steal them. The rest of the time it is quite calm here, and apart from isolated burglaries and high-profile road accidents, the city has nothing to “boast” of in terms of crime.
Of course, here, like everywhere else, drunken fights and domestic murders happen, however, fortunately, this is rare, and over the past few years residents have heard nothing of the kind. True, sometimes business-related murders occur; recently, a businessman was shot in the village of Kiparisnoye. The killers have not yet been found.
Murder of a businessman in the village. Cypress
Dissatisfaction and discussion are caused by the large number of drug addicts and corruption among officials. Residents are trying to combat these phenomena in all available ways. But officials remain just as dishonest, which is why all the high-profile crimes in Alushta are connected precisely with the fact that someone is caught taking bribes or kickbacks and is removed from office.
There are also places in the city where major accidents often occur, for example, the ring near the bus station and the pedestrian crossing towards Oktyabrskaya are just such a place. Fortunately, the city authorities paid attention to this, and now there is an underground passage.
Ring at the bus station
Reviews from tourists about the holiday
- The main advantages of Alushta are its mild climate and favorable location near green valleys and cliffs. It is impossible not to note the cleanest air, abundance of green spaces and amazing picturesque landscapes .
- Tourists who have visited Alushta cite lower prices for holidays and accommodation as compared to Yalta and Alupka as advantages.
- Guests of the city speak positively about the developed infrastructure of the city and the number of entertainment options .
- Among the disadvantages, it is worth noting the large concentration of tourists at the height of the beach season and, as a result, the accumulation of garbage on the streets and public beaches, since not all vacationers are well-mannered.
Rybachye
A resort village for lovers of a relaxing holiday in nature near the sea.
The village of Rybachye is located 28 kilometers east of Alushtyn on the Alushta-Feodosia highway.
This is a small resort village surrounded by picturesque nature, which is suitable for lovers of a relaxing holiday. The main advantage of the settlement for tourists is an almost two-kilometer strip of beach without breakwaters, covered with small pebbles and sand. The beach is 50 meters wide, it is free, equipped with toilets, shade canopies and paid showers. On the beach there are inflatable slides, bananas, you can rent a catamaran and ride a jet ski. Sun loungers are available for rent.
If you wish, you can choose a place on the wild beaches located even further east - in the direction of the Kanaka resort.
On Rybachye beach, living up to the name of the village, they organize sea fishing for those interested. And the cape between Rybachy and Malorechensky is popular among diving enthusiasts. There, in the coastal cliffs, there is the Bay of Love - a picturesque section of the coast, which can be reached by sea or by going down a narrow and slippery path from the coastal cliffs. The bay looks like an almost even semicircle, the water here is very clean and transparent.
The village has several cafes, shops, a market, but there is practically no entertainment for young people. Excursion trips from Rybachy are not very convenient, because the road towards Sudak or Alushta is a mountain serpentine.
In Rybachye there are several old Soviet boarding houses surrounded by parks, for example “Volna”, “Kulon” and “Rybachye”. In addition, there are a lot of offers for recreation in the private sector.
