Photos - Crimea
We spend most time of our 2006 Ukraine holiday on the Crimean peninsula, leaving the Easter and Western Ukraine for a next visit. The Crimea is an area soaked in history with many famous places like Sevastopol, Yalta and Balaklava. We were able to shoot some very interesting photos for the Russian Black Sea fleet in Sevastopol and inside a secret submarine base in Balaklava.
The night train from Kiev arrives around midday in Sevastopol and much of the Russian Black Sea fleet can already be seen from the train. The large presence of the Russian Navy, many Soviet monuments and import role in history make Sevastopol a great city to stay a few days. There are also many things to see around Sevastopol, most notably the World War II museum at Hill and the secret submarine base at Balaklava. Yalta was the most famous Black Sea holiday resort of the USSR and the location of the famous Yalta conference. We stayed in the famous Intourist Hotel Yalta a giant complex were many lucky Soviet citizens spend their summer holiday. The last place on the Crimea we visited was Simferopol mainly famous for the Tatars that lived there in the past and recently returned from exile in Central Asia.
Sevastopol - Kiev Sevastopol train
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Ukrainians saying goodbye to their relatives on Kiev train station
Sevastopol - Kiev Sevastopol train
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21-Aug-2006
Corridor in a typical former Soviet long distance sleeper train
Sevastopol - Kiev Sevastopol train
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21-Aug-2006
Toilets in Russian and Ukrainian trains are usually clean
Sevastopol - Kiev Sevastopol train
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21-Aug-2006
Water boiler to make tea, soup or noodles in an Ukrainian train
Sevastopol - Sevastopol Railway Station
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Sevastopol
21-Aug-2006
Busy square with Soviet architecture near the Railway Station
Sevastopol - Scuttled ships monument
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22-Aug-2006
Monument to Scuttled ships for the first defence of Sevastopol
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The monument to Scuttled ships Sevastopol’s most famous landmark
Sevastopol - Lenin statue
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Lenin looking towards the Black Sea from a hill in Sevastopol
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Posing in front of a Lenin statue in Sevastopol Ukraine
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Lenin still shows the people the path forward Sevastopol
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Lenin statue with classis posture on a hill in Sevastopol
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Red Navy sailor flanking Lenin at a Soviet monument in Sevastopol
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Monument with Soviet hero’s near the Lenin statue in Sevastopol
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Soviet worker with an anvil flanking Lenin in Sevastopol
Sevastopol - Hero cities memorial
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Stones honouring the Soviet Hero Cities, Smolensk in the front
Related articles
The Russian naval citadel Sevastopol is packed with grand monuments and statues from both Tsarist times and the Soviet era
In 2006 Comtourist photographed the Russian Black Sea Fleet, based in a section of the Sevastopol harbour leased from the Ukraine
Yalta was the principal seaside holiday resort in the Soviet Union, there are also some important historic sites near this Crimean city
Balaklava Submarine base near Sevastopol was a top secret Soviet military location that was only opened for tourists in the 1990s
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