Resort characteristics
Miskhor is a coastal strip between the sea and Mount Ai-Petri. The latter protects the resort from the winds, therefore, along with Yalta, Miskhor is the warmest place on the southern coast of Crimea.
View of Miskhor
The swimming season here lasts five months – from June to October inclusive. Most in demand:
- “Mermaid” beach with free entry, named after the sculpture of the same name (see below);
- beaches of the Miskhor and Ai-Petri sanatoriums with free entry;
- children's beach near Miskhorsky Park; ticket price for adults/children – 80/40 rubles;
- beach next to the Dulber Palace, with an entrance fee of 200 rubles. for adults.
Miskhor is located at the intersection of transport routes between Yalta and Alupka and Simeiz. Buses and minibuses connecting them stop in Miskhor. Boats also run between Yalta and Miskhor.
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Miskhor has developed transport links with Crimean cities. Buses No. 102 and 132, connecting Yalta with Alupka, and No. 115 and 122 “Yalta - Simeiz” pass through Miskhor every half hour. You can also get from the Yalta embankment to Miskhor by boat for 160/120 rubles. (adults/children). There are no problems with transport from Simferopol (bus No. 32) and Sevastopol. Buses from these cities arrive at the Miskhor bus station (near the 1001 Nights hotel).
Miskhor is a popular resort in Greater Yalta. The best option for visiting it is sanatoriums (“Ai-Petri”, “Miskhor”, valeological health resort). Voucher holders are guaranteed high-quality accommodation, food and treatment. Tourists planning a summer holiday there on their own are advised to arrange their arrival in advance. And we are talking not only about accommodation in first-class expensive hotels (Gloria, Park Avenue, 1001 Nights, Villa Mikhail), but also about more affordable housing options - in guest houses (Rio, Butterfly) , “Dream by the Sea”) and in the private sector.
The offer of Miskhor catering establishments is also varied. In addition to expensive restaurants (stand-alone or sanatorium), you can eat in numerous cafes, on full board in guest houses, or cook your own food, buying food at the market and in stores.
Mount Ai-Petri
Miskhor is located at the foot of the main mountain range of Crimea - Ai-Petri, the main peak of which reaches a height of 1234 m. The Western and Eastern peaks are lower - 1100 m each. The name has Greek roots and is associated with the church of St. Petra. Both the mountain and the entire mountain range are named after Ai-Petri. On the Main Peak, four large teeth 60¬–80 m high are clearly visible.
The peaks of the mountain, blown by strong winds, are usually shrouded in fog, and the ice cap on it does not disappear even at the end of spring. There are several ski slopes along the mountain, and below in winter there are many ski equipment rental points. Therefore, Miskhor is quite popular in the cold season among skiers.
View of Mount Ai-Petri
There is a cable car from Miskhor to Mount Ai-Petri. Climbing it is the tourist highlight of Miskhor. The distance covered is about 3 km, and the elevation difference is 1170 m. The first section - Miskhor - Sosnovy Bor, 1300 m long with a height difference of 220 m, is quite calm. The Sosnovy Bor – Ai Petri section is much more emotional. Over the course of 1600 m, the height changes by 850 m, and the ascent is carried out on ropes without supports. This unsupported span is the longest in Europe.
Cable car to Ai-Petri
Address: Koreiz, Alupkinskoe highway, 52. Opening hours: from 10 to 16 on Ai-Petri, from 10 to 17 from Ai-Petri to Miskhor. Ticket price – 400 rubles.
If the weather is favorable, you can also climb to the top along the Yalta-Bakhchisarai highway past Uchan-Su (“Flying Water”), the highest waterfall in Crimea. Another option for physically fit travelers is along the famous Botkin Trail. In any case, it is necessary to take into account that it is much colder at the top than at the bottom.
The most popular among tourists is the ascent by cable car and the steep descent by minibus with a visit to the Uchan-Su waterfall. The water flow falling from a height of 99 m is most picturesque in early spring, during the period of active snow melting. In summer, the waterfall almost completely dries up. And in winter, round ice growths with long icicles are interesting.
Wuchang-Su Waterfall
Just above the waterfall you can see the “Silver Gazebo”, covered most of the year (except in summer) with frost shining in the sun.
Silver gazebo
On the Ai-Petri plateau there are rental points for horses and ATVs. Tourists can visit the Yalta, Geofizicheskaya and Ledyanaya (Three-Eyes) caves. The last cave is famous for the fact that it was from it that ice for champagne was delivered to the Vorontsov and Livadia palaces. The entrance to this cave is possible through three openings (“eyes”). Rope suspension bridges are strung between the teeth of Ai-Petri for extreme sports enthusiasts.
Suspension bridges between the teeth of Ai-Petri
Entertainment for children in Koreiz
In fact, there are not many of them in Miskhor - there is no dolphinarium or large amusement town. But you can find activities for young tourists.
Miskhor embankment
- Address: Naberezhnaya street.
There, in the center of the village, the entertainment industry is concentrated - various kinds of attractions, animation programs, car and horse rides, and so on. You won't find anything original here, but it will entertain small children. It is important to take into account that in Miskhor (as throughout Greater Yalta) prices are quite high.
Cable car
- Address: Alupkinskoe highway, 52.
Vacationers with children are simply obliged to ride it, even if they have no intention of later going on a tour of the plateau. The child will be delighted with the ride in the cabin at a great height. The cable car in Miskhor is one of the longest unsupported lifts in the world. Its length is 3 km.
A ride on a cable car allows you to enjoy the surrounding views at the same time, since you have a good view from the cabin. The walk is absolutely safe. On the plateau itself there are also places to go with children – even to the same caves. Teenagers can take the risk of walking along the bridges between the teeth of Ai-Petri.
Miskhorsky Park
In 1880, Miskhorsky Park was founded around the estate, which was successively owned by Russian nobles - Princes Potemkin and Naryshkin, Countess de Vitti and others. Landscape architects Marco and Kebah, invited by Potemkin, according to the park fashion of the late 19th century, divided its 28 hectares into three sections - natural with minimal external interference, central with a cypress alley and family. A significant part of the last zone in the middle of the 20th century. was transferred to sanatoriums and boarding houses, which were located in the former palaces of the Russian nobility.
The current territory of the park is 21 hectares. It is located in the center of Miskhor, parallel to the embankment. Over three hundred species of trees and plants grow in the park. More than a third of them were brought from other parts of the world and took root well in Miskhor. The long-livers of the park are two-hundred-year-old oak trees in the natural area of the park, and the Himalayan cedar, which is more than a century old.
View of Miskhorsky Park
The park is also famous for its long alley with pyramidal cypress trees, which leads to the beach with a statue of the Mermaid.
Cypress Alley of Miskhor Park
Many sculptures can be seen in the park itself. The most famous composition is “Beauty Arzy and Ali Baba” based on one of the legends that Crimea is so rich in.
History of Miskhor
The first mention of the settlement of Miskhor dates back to the middle of the 14th century.
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This village is mentioned in the Genoese treasury lists of ancient Kafa, which have survived to this day. After the expulsion of the Genoese by the Ottoman Empire, Miskhor, like Koreiz, became part of the Mangup Kadylyk
, which led to the emergence of the Muslim religion here.
Early 16th century
in Miskhor, out of about 70 people living, there was only one family that adhered to Islam. Subsequently, the village did not appear in any documents for a long time; apparently, the Christian part of the population emigrated, and the Tatar part grew very slowly.
But already in the period of 1784
, when Crimea was annexed by Russia, the village of Miskhor, although very small, appears again in the reporting documentation. At the beginning of the 19th century, 20 Miskhor farms accounted for just over 100 residents, who consisted entirely of Crimean Tatars.
Miskhor at the beginning of the 20th century
Next, Miskhor, together with Koreiz, is being formed as a popular resort village
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And in 1944,
all residents of the village, along with the Koreans, were subjected to forcible deportation, as today a memorial plaque installed near the village council reminds of this.
Memory of the forced expulsion of the Crimean Tatars from Miskhor and Koreiz
Today, Crimean Tatars are returning to their homeland and are gradually adapting to living conditions that have changed over more than half a century. The main economic activity of the residents of Miskhor today is serving the needs of the resort. sanatoriums have been built and continue to be built here.
, boarding houses,
health resorts
, guest houses, cafes and
restaurants
. It is the territory of Miskhor that is the busiest during the tourist season.
Today's Miskhor is modern and comfortable hotels and boarding houses
The Legend of the Mermaid
Once upon a time lived in the village of Miskhor a modest and hard-working family - Abiy-Aka, his wife and their pride - the beautiful Arzy. All the villagers loved her for her kind and friendly disposition, and many guys wooed her, but without success. But it wasn’t only grooms who were eyeing the beauty. There also lived in the village a rich old man, Ali Baba, about whom there was a dark rumor. As if he is not only a merchant, but also a supplier of living goods to the harem of the Turkish Sultan.
The time has come, and Arzy reciprocated the boy from a distant village. Preparations for the wedding began, and only the imminent separation from her parents, friends and the fountain from which she drew water every day darkened the girl’s thoughts.
On the wedding day, Arzy left the guests, took the jug and went down to her favorite fountain for the last time to say goodbye to him. Alas, Ali Baba and the people he hired were waiting for her here.
Hearing Arza’s screams, her parents, groom and guests rushed to the fountain. But Ali Baba's fast ship had already disappeared beyond the horizon. Soon after the abduction, as if unable to bear the separation, Arza’s favorite fountain dried up.
Sculptural composition “Beauty Arzy and Ali Baba”
Exactly one year after the abduction, the inconsolable Arzy and the child she gave birth to in the harem climbed his tower and rushed into the Bosphorus. That same evening, a mermaid with a baby in her arms swam up to the fountain, from which water suddenly flowed again. For a long time she looked at the folk village where she was so happy, then she went to the fountain, wet her hands and hair with water, stroked the stones, and then got up and disappeared into the depths of the sea. Since then, every year on this day you can see a Mermaid with a baby on the shore and at the fountain.
Bath of the Grand Duke
A tourist deciding which Miskhor beaches are ideal for his vacation should inquire about their availability. Sanatoriums and hotels rent a significant part of the coast; many of them do not allow outsiders into the territory, even for payment. But Dulber has a different opinion.
Its beach is located next to the famous park (the former estate of the Grand Duke of the Romanov family), outsiders can sit on it, but for a fee. Only children are not paid for passage.
But if you pay once, you can use sunbeds and small umbrellas all day. It’s clean, it’s never crowded, there’s a first-aid post, a children’s playground, cafeterias serving Crimean cuisine and a herbal bar for vegetarians and fans of healthy eating. Guests can sign up for sea excursions and ride a banana boat.
Adamson sculptures
At the beginning of the 20th century. The Russian Estonian sculptor Amandus Adamson was vacationing in Crimea. By that time, he had become widely known for two outstanding works - the Monument to the Sailors of the Russian battleship "Rusalka" in Reval (now Tallinn) and the Monument to the Scuttled Ships in Sevastopol. The sad legend he heard touched the master’s heart so much that he, on his own initiative and at his own expense, created two works based on the plot of the legend. This is the sculptural composition “Beauty Arzy and Ali Baba”, located directly in the park, and the sculpture “Mermaid on a Stone”, originally (in 1907) installed on the shore.
The last sculpture, like its character, had a difficult fate. The sea waves broke or carried her away. The current sculpture is considered the fifth. According to art critics, it is significantly inferior to Adamson’s original.
Sculpture “Mermaid on the Stone”
Park address: Koreiz, Alupkinskoe highway, 52. The nearest bus stop (routes No. 102 and 32) is “Lower cable car station.”
Yusupov Palace
The first estate on the site of the current palace belonged to Princess Golitsyna. It was surrounded by a 16-hectare park designed by the famous gardener Kebah. The next owner of the estate was winemaker Morozov. Since 1880, the mansion with the park became the property of Prince Felix Yusupov, who started a large-scale reconstruction of the palace. The renovation work of the “Pink House” was led by the chief architect of Yalta, Krasnov. The Yusupov Palace took on a neo-Romanesque appearance with numerous Renaissance elements, and the Art Nouveau style prevailed in the interior.
Yusupov Palace
Many sculptures appeared in the park, in particular lions.
Sculpture of a lion in the park of the Yusupov Palace
The Yusupovs lived on the estate until 1919, after which they emigrated. The Yusupov Palace was nationalized and became a state dacha. During the Yalta Conference, the Soviet delegation was housed here: since then, Stalin’s desk, billiard room, and film projector have been preserved. In the post-war period, the palace did not change its status. In independent Ukraine, its leaders rested there. Nowadays the Yusupov Palace belongs to the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation. Talks about creating a museum on its basis never moved into practice.
Address: Koreiz, Park Descent, 26. The palace can be viewed from the outside from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. You can enter inside only with a pre-agreed excursion, for which you need to pay 450 rubles. Travel: by buses 115, 122 and 132.
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Next are the beaches of the “Akter” creative house and the “Belarus” sanatorium. Here the situation is this: outsiders are allowed onto the Akter beach after 17.00 and only until 19.00.
But, according to reviews from vacationers, you can go here for an individual fee and depending on the mood of the security. The beach is not very wide, there are awnings, a solarium, paths, cafes, and recreation areas.
The very nice and well-maintained beach of the Belarus sanatorium prefers to see only clients of the institution among its visitors. But if you really want, you can either issue a sanatorium book in the main building of the sanatorium, or... negotiate at the checkpoint for a nominal fee.
Dulber Palace
Translated from Crimean Tatar, the name of the palace translates as “beautiful”. He really seemed to have stepped out of the pages of the Arabian Nights fairy tales. The palace, designed by the same Krasnov, was built for Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich Romanov.
Dulber Palace
After the October Revolution, by order of the Sevastopol Council, consisting of Socialist Revolutionaries and Bolsheviks, all the Romanovs who were in Crimea on their estates (and among them were the mother and sisters of Nicholas II) were ordered to settle in this palace, built in the style of a fortified Moorish castle.
A major role in protecting the Romanovs who took refuge in the palace was played by the Commissioner of the Sevastopol Council, Philip Zadorozhny, who reported directly to the central Soviet authorities. As German troops approached, the Yalta Council, which was dominated by anarchists, made several attempts to break into the palace and finish off the Romanovs. However, a small sailor detachment led by Zadorozhny repulsed all attacks on the palace, which had been turned into a real fortress (with the help of qualified advice from Pyotr Nikolaevich Romanov).
The palace is surrounded by an equally beautiful park filled with palm trees, cypresses, cedars, sequoias, plane trees, and oaks. It is decorated with sculptures, gazebos, fountains and pools with water lilies.
Dulber Palace and Park
Address: Koreiz, Alupkinskoye Highway, 19. Nowadays there is a sanatorium operating in the Dulber Palace, so it can only be viewed from the outside by paying 200 rubles. As a bonus, there is the opportunity to swim on the sanatorium beach, which is not crowded even in high season. Excursions to the Miskhor Estates park are officially organized for tourist groups from Yalta and Sevastopol. Unofficially, tourists can negotiate with the guide on the spot. You can get to the palace by Yalta minibus No. 32, which goes to the Vorontsov Palace: you need to get off at the “Dulber” stop.
Malaya Alupka
On the territory of the Nizhny Miskhor LOCC there is another interesting old estate “Sofievka”. A country villa that belonged to the Naryshkin family and was built in the early 30s of the 19th century.
Representatives of a noble family settled very close to Count Vorontsov, who was the cousin of Major General Lev Aleksandrovich Naryshkin, the owner of the estate.
The estate also owned the future Miskhorsky park, the landscaping of which, like Alupkinsky, was carried out by Karl Kebach himself, the director of the Nikitsky Botanical Garden.
You can admire the views of the palace and the surrounding landscapes of the 19th century in the sketches of Carl Bossoli. But read the history of the founders and learn about the connections of famous noble families on the website of the Nizhny Miskhor LOC.
Now the Naryshkin estate is part of the Nizhny Miskhor hotel complex, located on the territory of Miskhor Park. This is not a sanatorium, so you can buy a tour here or pay for daily accommodation.
If you want to live in an old mansion, then choose the Gloria building - 3*, by the way.
- Address: Alupkinskoe highway, 15b, Koreiz
- Only for residents
- Website: n-mischor.com
