Taganrog leather factory from a bird's eye view - the collapse of a giant

Taganrog leather factory from a bird's eye view - the collapse of a giant

At the end of May this year, news spread throughout the city... the tannery was on fire! People went outside and saw how a huge flame engulfed the building, its flashes could be seen for many kilometers. Firefighters extinguished the fire for several hours.

Residents wondered what was left of the once great tannery No. 1 after the fire. The answer to this question was provided by Denis Tretyakov by shooting with a quadcopter from a bird's eye view.

The Taganrog tannery was founded in 1853. The official launch took place in 1858. The first owner of the plant was Ya. M. Serebryakov. Since 1874, the plant was owned by I. A. Scaramanga. Leather production was done by hand in dark, cramped rooms. After the creation of the Azov Leather Production Partnership in 1895, construction of a new plant began. The main building, drying rooms, warehouses, and a mechanical workshop were built. Steam heating, sea water supply, and then electric lighting were installed. The Taganrog leather factory was famous for the quality of its products and was considered one of the largest in southern Russia. His products supplied not only our country, but were also exported to England, Turkey, and Greece. At the beginning of the 20th century it was nationalized and became known as leather factory No. 1.

In the 90s of the twentieth century, the Taganrog Tannery had production facilities for processing all types of raw hides. In the manufacture of products, imported and domestic equipment, modern technological processes and chemical materials are used. It has the ability to produce a wide range of products: thin elastic chrome, yuft, hard leather, saddle leather, rawhide, velor, blanks for leather goods, feed flour, hide glue and many others. etc. The company employed up to 1,500 people.

In September 2015, an attempt was made to recognize the production shops of the defunct tannery as an object of cultural heritage and included in the unified state register. An answer came from the Ministry of Culture that work would be organized “to establish the historical and cultural value of the object” with the aim of including it in the lists of cultural heritage sites, but... they didn’t succeed, they didn’t have time, it didn’t work out.

Recently, the plant has often suffered from arson, but the last severe fire that occurred on May 25, 2022, destroyed almost everything, putting an end to the century-long history of this great enterprise. The Notepad archive contains a video of the terrible event that destroyed the plant.

Previously, we reported that the Tannery in Taganrog caught fire.
On May 25, a fire occurred at the Tannery on Kontorskaya Street in Taganrog. News on Notepad-Taganrog

Alushta

History of Alushta

Monument to the Liberators of Alushta In written sources, mentions of Alushta have been found since the 6th century, after the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I erected the Aluston fortress here and built a large harbor.
Subsequently, the fortification passed to the Genoese, who for a long time could not share the bastion and port with the neighboring principality of Theodoro. After the Turks arrived in Crimea, Alushta quickly fell into decline, degrading into an unsightly Black Sea village, which it remained until the 18th century. The future resort began to grow and develop only after Crimea was annexed to the Russian Empire and received the status of a volost center. Moreover, things did not go well for the town right away, as a result of which permanent fans of Alushta appeared only towards the end of the 19th century, when it turned into a nice, ennobled town. Soon rumors about a new Black Sea resort reached the ears of the Russian intelligentsia, who rushed to buy land and real estate in its vicinity. As an example: by the beginning of the 20th century, most of the dachas in the city belonged to famous scientists and medical luminaries.

Alushta. Carlo Bossoli. From the album “Landscapes and Sights of Crimea”, Sheet 29 (1856). Temple of Theodore Stratilates on the central hill, to the left of the Genoese towers.

Best time to travel

Alushta in June
In climatic terms, Alushta is the same as Yalta, but with some additional “options”. So, for example, despite the fact that the summer heat here is almost the same as in the resort capital of the southern coast of Crimea, it is more easily tolerated due to the breezes blowing towards the city during the daytime. The microclimate is also formed by two mountain passes (Angarsky and Kebit-Bogaz), thanks to which there is an intensive exchange of air masses between the sea and the surrounding plains. But autumn and winter in Alushta are no different from those in Yalta: it is still warm (the average local January temperature is +4 °C) and relatively humid (the bulk of precipitation falls from October to February).

Formally, the swimming season in this part of the South Coast starts in May and subsides by October. However, if you plan not only to test the strength of beach loungers, but also to swim properly, it is better to come to Alushta in July-August, when a thermometer lowered into the water shows +25...+27 °C. For vacationers going to the resort to get acquainted with the wellness programs of local sanatoriums, it is wiser to book places closer to May-October. The fact is that the main healing factor of the city is climatic. And late spring and mid-autumn are the best time to enjoy air saturated with iodine and pine resins, without melting under the Crimean sun, which is too generous with ultraviolet radiation.

Alushta in winter

Sights and entertainment in Alushta

15th century tower in Alushta
In Alushta there is where to go within the city limits and what to see in the surrounding area. The most visited attraction within the resort remains the Aluston fortress, which marked the beginning of its history. More precisely, not the entire fortress, but its epic ruins in the form of a stone tower and a section of a wall. In the center of the city there is the Golubka dacha, built at the beginning of the 19th century, an elegant mansion made of grayish-beige Crimean shell rock, where the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II met his future wife, Alice of Hesse-Darmstadt.

Another historical building called Villa “Otrada” is located in the Primorsky Park. The exquisite building with a massive colonnade belonged to the millionaire M. D. Stakheev, but it became famous among the townspeople thanks to the visits of the artist I. I. Shishkin, who got into the habit of spending his holidays here. By the way, about the park in which the villa is located. The recreation area was founded by the same Stakheev, who planted olive trees, cork oaks, as well as various species of coniferous and rare deciduous trees on its territory. Today in the Primorsky Park you can not just sit on a bench, looking at the greenery raging around you, but also play sports, take the kids to fun rides and order a cartoon from the artists sitting along the edges of the alleys.

Temple in the name of All Crimean Saints and Theodore Stratilates

The Church of All Crimean Saints and Fyodor Stratilates, which is unlike any other resort church, can also impress. The fact is that the main sponsor of the construction, Count Vorontsov, was very fond of everything English, so he chose the appropriate design for the building - a mixture of Gothic and Anglican architecture. Not far from the Alushta embankment there is a wonderful place in all respects - the “Crimea in Miniature” park, so when you don’t have the time or energy to thoughtfully explore the sights of the peninsula, you can cheat and get acquainted with their smaller copies. In total, there are about 40 “Lilliputian” exhibits in the park.

If you want more official exhibitions, in Alushta you will find the Literary Museum of the writer Ivan Shmelev, the Literary and Memorial Museum of Sergeev-Tsensky, and the House-Museum of the architect Beketov. Vacationers arriving at the resort with their entire families can benefit from recharging with positive emotions in the Animal Park and the city aquarium. Local dolphinariums “Nemo” and “Akvarel” also offer no less exciting show programs. You can also pamper yourself with swimming in the company of marine mammals - “only” 3,500 rubles for a five-minute swim.

Fans of adrenaline-stimulating attractions are recommended to purchase a subscription to the water park of the Almond Grove resort and recreational complex - wave pools, serpentine slides and other “wet joys” are included. Beginner sommeliers and simply those who like to try new varieties of wine will not be disappointed. By the way, it is for the sake of a tour of his cellars that buses with “tasters” from all over Greater Yalta rush to Alushta.

Waterpark "Almond Grove"

Nearby attractions

The approaches to the resort boast no less impressive objects than the city itself. In particular, in the vicinity of Alushta there are wonderful mountain landscapes, and there are also many places of cosmic power where you can discover artifacts of unknown origin. One of these tracts is the Demerdzhi-yayla mountain range, where the Valley of Ghosts is located and where Gaidai filmed several episodes for the comedy “Prisoner of the Caucasus.” Here you can find rock formations in the form of figures of people and animals, and at the same time get acquainted with the Brocken Ghost - an amazing optical illusion that occurs in foggy weather as a result of the play of light rays.

Demerdzhi-yayla

Brocken Ghost

View of Mount Castel

Mount Kastel, located at the southern tip of Alushta, has its own legends. Somewhere on its slopes the remains of an ancient fortress were lost, in which Theodora, the mythical queen of the state of Sugdea (today the city of Sudak), the existence of which historians are still debating, first hid and then heroically died. Beginners and experienced speleologists will be impressed by excursions to the Chatyr-Dag massif, which is literally riddled with caves and underground mines. The most convenient place to recharge yourself with cosmic energy and reflect on ancient civilizations is in the Sotera River valley - a place where you can find a number of “stone mushrooms” (vertical rock formations with earthen-tuff plates placed on them).

Stone mushrooms of the Sotera River valley

A mandatory excursion program in the outskirts of Alushta also includes a visit to the Dzhur-Dzhur waterfall (Solnechnogorskoye village). This is the deepest and most powerful waterfall in Crimea, near which it is pleasant to relax, but nothing more: swimming in Dzhur-Dzhur is a serious extreme sport, since the water flow carries stones with it.

Jur-Jur waterfall

Palace of Princess Gagarina

Of the architectural structures outside the city, the whimsical and at the same time mystical Palace of Princess Gagarina in the village of Utes, the Kosmo-Damianovsky monastery with a holy spring, hidden in the Babugan-yayla mountain range, and the medieval Funa fortress, located at the foot of mountain peak South Demerdzhi. In addition, in the vicinity of Alushta you can find a couple of non-trivial exhibitions, for example, the private mini-museum “House of Brownies” in the village of Zaprudnoye or the Museum of Water Disasters in Malorechenskoye, which has found shelter in the basement of the Church of St. Nicholas of Myra.

Beaches of Alushta

The resort is lucky with its beaches. A wide coastline with pebble and, much less frequently, sandy surfaces stretches for almost 80 km along the sea. Conventionally, all swimming places in Alushta are divided into three types:

• free municipal beaches with paid rental of sun loungers and umbrellas;
• municipal sites with sunbeds and awnings, equipped with showers and toilets, but with paid entrance;
• beaches assigned to sanatoriums and hotels, access to which is given to guests of the establishments and, in rare cases, to guests.

The main city beach is called Laskiy Bereg and runs parallel to the resort promenade. Its vast territory is beautiful in everything - developed infrastructure, accessibility (the center of Alushta is a few minutes walk), and a variety of water attractions. However, the beach has a serious disadvantage that outweighs all its advantages - it is super popular among vacationers. So, if you want to stake out a place here, come at dawn, or better yet, spend the night nearby. By the way, among local residents, Laskovy Bereg has a reputation as a beach for lazy people who are ready to splash in muddy water, lie on pebbles in the midst of hot bodies, but in close proximity to a cafe.

Beaches of Alushta

Adjacent to the main city swimming area on the north side is the Children's Beach, assigned to the Center for Children and Youth Creativity. Underfoot here you find pebbles mixed with sand, and the shallow water area is much larger than on other beaches. In addition, due to its distance from public transport stops, Detsky is less popular among tourists than its neighbor. Accordingly, if there is no place for your towel on the Laskovy Bereg, take a walk in a northerly direction and move here.

Professor's Corner

The second center of attraction for Alushta bathers is the Professor's Corner, where, along with pebbles, shale sand is also found. The 2.5 km long coastline is divided by breakwaters into several mini-beaches, most of which belong to sanatoriums and boarding houses (“Sea”, “Alushta”, “Dnepr”). Here they are only willing to rent out an umbrella to uninvited guests - the best places are reserved for guests. The second half of the site remains municipal, but with an entrance fee. However, the official “tax” here is ridiculous - about 100 rubles, and this amount includes not only access to the sea, but also a sun lounger.

The amenities of civilization in the Professor's Corner are also in perfect order: there is somewhere to eat, have fun, rent sports equipment and even get a massage. The only difficulty is the path to the coastline. In many areas there are no pedestrian paths, which means you have to meander for a long time to find the right place.

Alushta embankment

If you have a strong desire to get away from the bustle of the central beaches, welcome to the eastern part of Alushta. The places here are not completely wild, but there are definitely no mountains of bodies on the shore, and the coastal cover is approximately the same as within the city, that is, pebbly. But it’s better to get here by car - the journey on foot will be long and exhausting. The most civilized beach in this direction is considered to be Royal. It is closer to the center of the resort, so it has retained a semblance of infrastructure.

Stones of Destiny

Everything east of Korolevskoe is a relatively deserted area, where you will have to sacrifice basic amenities in favor of silence and clean water. As for sun loungers, you can find tents offering them for rent here too. By the way, it is in the east of Alushta that there is a nudist beach, so those arriving at the resort to “have fun in a primitive way” are better off anchoring at the end of the Eastern embankment, the landmark is the last breakwater.

In cases where you want to get away from the crowd of Alushta beaches, but it’s a pity to part with comfort, neighboring villages will come to the rescue. For example, in Satera there is a small but quite cozy piece of the coast, on which there are places even during the peak season. It is better to go to Semidvorye with children. Here the shore is wider, with imported sand and a narrow pebble border at the very edge of the water. The infrastructure in the village is also great - there are sanatoriums, various taverns and rental points for everything in the world nearby. In addition, young holidaymakers will definitely appreciate the gentle slopes to the water, which is quite a rare occurrence in this part of the South Coast. However, it’s better not to forget about the pebbles and large pebbles on the seabed here, since the range of rubber slippers in the Semidvorsky kiosks is designed for every taste and budget.

Sanatorium treatment

In Alushta health resorts, they prefer to focus not on trendy procedures, but on natural healing factors - swimming in the sea, climate, helio-mud and aromatherapy, as well as hydrotherapy. By the way, about the water used in city sanatoriums. They do not have their own mineral springs on their territory, so the water in the pump rooms of the health resorts is imported. Usually this is life-giving moisture from the Yalta, Saki and Alushta deposits.

Important information: not all Alushta sanatoriums operate during the low season, so carefully study the institutions’ websites before a winter or autumn trip.

Alushta Reserve

Most resort health centers specialize in diseases of the nervous, cardiovascular and musculoskeletal systems, as well as problems of the ENT organs. But you can also find places with other profiles. In particular, “Aivazovsky” and “Alushta” provide excellent treatment for allergies. In “Slavutich” they normalize the digestive system, and in “Utyos” and “Blue Wave” they fight diseases of the endocrine system.

Sanatorium prices can vary: from budget to premium, depending on the selected package of services. The period of the best prices in the warm season is May-June. If you try, in this period you can grab a modest room with three meals a day and a set of medical procedures for only 2,500 rubles. per day. By July, the price level in health resorts skyrockets. As an example: you can book a comfort room in July at Utes for no less than 9,800 rubles.

Where to stay

The choice of housing in Alushta is not limited to sanatoriums. In this regard, the resort is universal and welcomes both respectable guests and adherents of budget holidays who are ready to be content with an ascetic room rented from one of the locals. The most expensive housing options are traditionally located near the sea. But if there is a need for global savings, you can move deeper into the city - there will be no less interesting offers in terms of price.

Riviera Sunrise Resort & SPA Alushta

In general, three main types of housing can be distinguished in Alushta - fashionable hotel complexes with their own private beaches (three or four stars), small private hotels (with one star or no star at all) and guesthouses. The range of prices is decent: a double room in posh locations like Riviera Sunrise Resort & SPA Alushta or “IvaMaria” costs about 8,300 rubles, and a room in a guest house remote from the beach (about half a kilometer to the sea) costs 1,000-1,300 rubles.

IvaMaria

Intermediate options like boarding houses or mini-hotels like Lesnoy will cost around 3,500 rubles per day. But it’s worth considering them at least because of the issue of food - most of these hotels can offer guests dishes from their own restaurant. In addition, many mediocre hotels in Alushta have their own swimming pools, where for the sake of variety you can splash around if you were unable to win a place on the municipal beach.

Hotel Lesnoy

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Cafes and restaurants

Alushta catering is moving towards progress by leaps and bounds, and this is noted by everyone who has visited the resort in the last couple of years. You can have a good time in “Aquarius”, where there is a children’s menu, “Library”, where wonderful avocado soups are prepared, and “Meeting”, where media personalities coming to Alushta are celebrated.

Crimean cheeses at the Vodoley restaurant

Restaurant "Library"

Entrance to the Vstrecha restaurant

Red mullet at the "Mullet Bar"

Budget canteens in the “Greetings from the USSR” style also do not suffer from a lack of visitors. True, when choosing a meal in such a place, you will have to play the lottery - not all set meals are equally joyfully accepted by the digestive system. Those who want to treat themselves to Black Sea fish should take a walk to “Barabulya Bar” - an original fast food cafe, where, along with burgers, you will be served a bucket of fried breaded horse mackerel, crayfish or freshly caught shrimp. If you want to not only sit peacefully, but also admire the sea views, come to the city embankment, where cafes are equipped with summer verandas, such as “Santa Cruz”.

Shopping

Market in Alushta
There are no large shopping centers in Alushta - it is better to look for them in Simferopol. At the resort, markets, kiosks and small private shops are still trendy. As for authentic Crimean souvenirs, here they are the same as those found along the coast as a whole - shell small things, juniper crafts, herbal teas and essential oils produced by the Alushta State Farm Factory, as well as cosmetics from the Crimean Rose brand.

Among the delicious holiday gifts, we can recommend mountain lavender honey, but buying it is a whole quest, since the sweetness at the resort is counterfeited by everyone who is not too lazy. It’s good if you have your own person among the locals who will help identify a surrogate and suggest honest sellers. The bravest ones can take a risk and buy homemade bottled wine, which is sold at the market during the season. Well, for tourists for whom caution is paramount, it is better to grab a few bottles from the company store. Yalta onions, Turkish delight, dried fruits, cheeses - we look for them at the city market and in small grocery stores.

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Transport

City public transport in Alushta includes trolleybuses (urban and suburban) and minibuses. The most popular route in both cases is No. 2, going to the beaches of Professor’s Corner. Suburban minibus No. 12 departs in the same direction. For those who are in a hurry to have a tasting at the winery, we can recommend minibuses No. 3, 4, 7, 8, 9 and 10. To the beaches of Satery and Semidvorye there are routes No. 111 and 113. However, you can get off you will have to take the turn leading to the villages, and do the rest of the way to the sea on foot. The fare for the Alushta trolleybus is 14 rubles, for the minibus – 25 rubles.

Renting a bicycle so as not to depend on public transport is also possible. Bike rentals can be found on the street. Gorky (“Velo-Alushta”), as well as on the street. Lenin (bike shop "Adrenaline"). Some guest houses also provide this service, but their bike park is not so diverse. By the way, neither the rental offices nor private individuals provide insurance for the vehicle to the renter, so if the bicycle breaks down, you will have to pay for the damage. But the deposit for a two-wheeled friend can be different: in some places they require a passport, in others - money (the amounts are different at each point).

Trolleybus to Alushta

Parking in Alushta

The most “pretty” way to get around Alushta is by taxi. Tariffs of different carriers may vary, but in general the following trend emerges: the first 5 km of travel within the city - 180 rubles, each subsequent kilometer - 25 rubles. If you are planning an excursion to the mountains, a double tariff will apply - 50 rubles / km. For those planning to drive along the Crimean serpentines on their own, we can recommend renting a car. True, you will have to do this upon arrival in Simferopol - there are no rental points at the resort. Although, if the financial issue is not pressing, you can rent a vehicle with “door delivery”. In this case, the services of the driver who delivered the car from Simferopol to Alushta will have to be paid additionally.

How to get there

Alushta bus station
There are two ways to get to Alushta without transfers - by bus and your own car. The first option is usually seasonal: direct flights Moscow - Alushta depart from the capital's Yuzhnye Vorota station and Krasnogvardeyskaya station. Ticket price – from 2500 rubles. In addition, there are several additional flights with transfers in Kerch and Temryuk. Motorists will have to route through Krasnodar, then across the Crimean Bridge to Kerch, Feodosia, Simferopol and, finally, to Alushta.

Alushta does not have air or rail connections with the “mainland”, but Simferopol does. So buy a plane and train ticket from Moscow to Simferopol and go on your trip in peace. You can cover the remaining part of the route between the cities by trolleybus No. 51, departing in the Alushta direction from the Simferopol Central railway station. If you didn’t have time for this route, take the 52nd trolleybus to Yalta - it also goes through Alushta. The ticket price in both cases is 115 rubles. Well, those who are already vacationing in the resort capital of the South Coast, but want to enjoy the beauty of the neighboring resort, will be helped out by the Yalta-Alushta trolleybuses. The asking price is only 70 rubles.

As faster alternatives to the trolleybus, it is recommended to consider minibuses and taxis, of which there are plenty at the Simferopol Central Station. You can rush in the direction of Alushta by buses departing from the Kurortnaya bus station (fare from 187 rubles), as well as from Simferopol airport (ticket price – 362 rubles).

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