The Yalta Museum of the Poet Lesia Ukraiinka

Info Telefon: +38(0654) 325525
Besucher-Email: svk@yalta.crimea.ua

The Yalta United Historical and Literary Museum

Info Telefon: +38(0624) 323065

Usman Jusupov Memorial Museum

A.P. Chekhov's Memorial House

Fax.: (0654)32-50-42

Info Telefon: (0654) 39-49-47 and 235367

10-17.15 h, closed last day of the month

Picture: Omur-Datscha
 

Republican Museum ''A. S. Pushkin''

Info Telefon: 36-38-86

1 June-1 October daily 10.00-18.00 h
Closed: Monday, Tuesday

Nikita / Nikitsky Botanical Gardens

Info Telefon: 0654
Besucher-Email: nbg@yalta.crimea.ua

8-18 h

One of the oldest (founded in 1812) among the world's botanical gardens, Nikita Botanical Gardens (NBG or, for short, the Gardens or Nikita) is a large scientific-research institute as well as a beautiful tourist attraction. The Gardens belong to the Ukraine Academy of Agrarian Sciences (UAAS). The main direction of its work is the study of natural flora and vegetation, collection of plants, introduction into culture, and selection of new varieties for industrial fruit culture and floriculture. Nikita (not just the Gardens but a nearby small town by that name) is situated in the Crimea on the picturesque coast of the Black Sea not far from Yalta. NBG has branches in the Crimea and in the Kherson region of Ukraine. The total area of the NBG is 1100 hectares. NBG's coastline is 6 kilometers. The institute has 12 scientific departments. It has the largest herbarium in Europe, the oldest library in Crimea, and a scientific museum, attached to a fruit tasting cafe. The Gardens annually hosts about half a million visitors. The Nikita Gardens complex includes two hotels, currently being restored, along with other commercial and health facilities. These relate to the Gardens' 50,000 species, varieties and hybrids of flowers, fruits, olives, nuts and woody, subtropical, industrial, oil-bearing and medical plants -- including rare and endangered species. The staff numbers about 1000, among whom are 130 scientific-research workers including academic and corresponding-member of UAAS, 4 professors, 15 doctors 80 candidates for science degrees; and 40 students taking post-graduate courses at NBG. There is a Specialized Board on Defense of Candidate and Doctoral Theses.

Intensive work is done by NBG on the introduction and selection of new agricultural plants, their regionalization in the South of Ukraine, Russia and other countries. During its existence the Nikita Botanical Gardens has introduced into culture more than 360 species of plants. During the last 80 years about 800 new varieties have been bred, while 25 varieties were regionalized in different countries. NBG exchanges scientific literature and seeds with 600 institutions from more than 100 countries. It has strong scientific and business links with other botanical gardens and commercial plant nurseries. Each year scientists of NBG publish over 200 scientific works. NBG also hosts international conferences, symposiums and exhibitions.

On 13 January 2000 Nikita Botanical Gardens, being of national importance and world recognition, was given the status of National Scientific Center to promote development of its scientific potential for effectively carrying out tasks of preserving the plant world's gene pool.

Nikita Botanical Gardens is interested in exchanging of scientific information, literature, seeds, samplings and plant matter with different institutions and organizations, firms and public societies. It seeks partnerships to carry out this work in new and different directions -- such as
- development of fruit cultures, floricultures, and oil-bearing plants for certified nurseries
- formation of winter gardens for offices and production quarters, individual houses and flats
- landscape designs for regions with extreme natural conditions and for old restored parks
- growing of spice and dye plants and commercialization of products from these plants
- new technologies for obtaining virus-free subtropical and stone fruit varieties
- development of flowers, ornamental and medical plants by biotechnological methods
- methodologies for controlling pests, mites and diseases in gardens, parks and vineyards

NBG is ready to suggest to partners how to produce liquid aromatic substances for foods from ecologically clean materials and herbal tea formulas for preventive health treatments for the heart, stomach, intestines and lungs. NBG is interested in joint work to develop infrastructure and a new system of services for tourists, with an emphasis on international scientific tourism.
 

Massandra Palace

Info Telefon: 321728

Wed-Mon 10-18 h, Nov-April only to 16 h.

"Massandra was acquired by Counts Potocki in 1783. In the mid-19th century, it passed to Prince Vorontsov Jr, whose father was the governor of New Russia. Bewitched by a picturesque setting, Vorontsov in 1881 engaged a team of French architects to design for him a château in the Louis XIII style. He died the following year and construction work was suspended until 1889, when the messuage was purchased by Alexander III of Russia. The tsar asked architect Maximilian Messmacher to finish the palace for his own use but he did not live to see it completed in 1900. During the Soviet years, the palace was employed by Joseph Stalin as his dacha." (Wikipedia)

 

Livadia Palace Museum

Fax.: 310098

Info Telefon: (0654) 315579
Besucher-Email: ldm@mail.ylt.crimea.com

10.00-18.00 h
Closed: Wednesday

"The Palace was a summer retreat of the last Russian tsar, Nicholas II, and his family in Livadiya, Crimea. The Yalta Conference was held there in 1945, when the palace housed the apartments of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and other members of the American delegation.

Today a museum and a sanatory is held in the palace, but it is sometimes used by the Ukrainian authorities for international summits." (based on Wikipedia)
 

The Yalta Museum “Glade of Tales”

Fax.: +38(0654) 395303

Info Telefon: +38 (0654) 396402
Besucher-Email: skazka@ukrpost.ua

Alupka State Palace and Park Museum-Reserve

Tel.: 72-281
Fax.: 72-39-40

Info Telefon: 72-29-51

Opening hours depindig on month, please call in advance
Closed: on Monday

Picture: Wikipedia Commons