Yalta

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Yalta () is a city in Crimea on the northern coast of the Black Sea, in the south of the peninsula. It is an important commercial and passenger port. The city is located on the site of the ancient Greek colony of Yalita, a name that it kept to it.

The city is famous for the conference that was held at it shortly before the end of World War II.

Etimology

According to the most common version, the name of the city comes from the Greek "yalos" (, "coast"), but there is a hypothesis that the city has Turkish origin. The first mention of Yalta dates from 1154; we meet an Arab historian Al-Idrisi. Galit, Kaulitu, or a tutor as he calls a city (Polovtsiano) on the Black Sea coast. From the Crimean Tatar yalyda can be translated as "coast," as in the Crimean Tatar Yaly is equivalent, if not; the word used for "coast," being therefore a loan from the Greek and coming from the same Greek word (γιαλος).

Climate

Yalta is located at approximately the same latitude with the famous ports and tourist centers of Italy Ravenna and Genoa. The sun shines here on average 2250 hours a year - almost the same as in Nice, Cannes, San Remo and other Mediterranean tourist centers, and more than in Sochi and Kislovodsk.

In addition, its climate is moderate and has similarities to the subtropical Mediterranean. It is characterized by soft and rainy winters, fresh spring, long and hot summers, in addition to a long autumn, which is usually hot. The most important role is the combination of an ice-free hot sea and the Crimean mountains, which rise from wall to cold winds.

The average temperature in July of + 24.1 ° C, the average temperature in January of + 4.4 ° C, in winter, during the invasion of cold arctic cyclone or anti-cyclone Siberian temperatures may fall to negative values. They are often even in January genuinely warm sunny days, when the thermometer marks 20 ° C of January 2006 was abnormally cold for Yalta: the temperature fell to -10,2 ° C.

Demography
According to the census conducted by Ukraine on 1 January 2001, the population of Yalta is 80 552. The main ethnic groups in Yalta are:

The predominant language almost in an absolute way on the streets of the city is Russian.
This total number does not include the population of neighbouring and small peoples. The population of the metropolitan area is 125,000.

Current

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Yalta has fought to maintain its economy. Many of the new rich began to go to other European tourist destinations, on the contrary, the impoverishment of many exSoviet citizens, has meant that they can no longer afford to go to Yalta as in Soviet times.

Transport has been significantly reduced with the end of almost the whole