Yalta — a city-resort at southern coast of the Crimean peninsula. 

Yalta is interesting by a unique combination of the architectural monuments entered in a mountain landscape. There is a set of beautiful buildings of the end XIX — the XX-th century beginnings. Yalta was favourite vacation spot of the Russian aristocracy pulled on Southern Coast of Crimea after an imperial family.

History: Yalta has been based by Greeks presumably in I century. The legend says that the Greek seafarers misdirected during a storm long strayed in search of coast and when, at last, have seen coast  they decided to name it as a place of disembarkation settlement.

Under the most widespread version the city name occurs from greek (yalos) — "coast", however there are hypotheses and that the city name has a Turkic origin.

Population: about 100 000 (2009)

Main kinds of the mass transport:

Main sights:

Livadiyskiy dvorec (Livadiyskiy palace)	Dom-muzey Lesi Ukrainki (Lesya Ukrainka musiem)	Dvorec Dulber (Dulber palace)
Voroncovskiy dvorec (Voroncovskiy palace)	Masandrovskiy dvorec (Masandrovskiy palace)	Quay
Fountain on the embankment	Fountain on the embankment	Fountain in the center
Hram Alexandra Nevskogo (Aleksandr Nevskiy temple)	Hram Ioana Zlatousa (Ioan Zlatous temple)