Alushta

Alushta (Ukrainian and Russian Алушта; Crimean Tatar alusta ) is a spa and holiday in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea on the Black Sea in Ukraine with 29,400 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2004).

In Alushta and the surrounding area there are along the coast to the two dozen sanatoria, rest houses, inns and hotels, where to spend during the summer thousands of people, many also from Russia and Belarus, their holidays. Part of the recovery sites is the year in operation.

Management

Administratively divided the the city government under its area in the city proper, and a urban-type settlement ( Partenit / Партеніт ), 16 villages ( Werchnja Kutusowka / Верхня Кутузовка, Heneralske / Генеральське, Saprudne / Запрудне, Selenohirja / Зеленогір ' я, Isobilne / Ізобільне, Kyparysne / Кипарисне, Lawrowe / Лаврове, Lutschyste / Лучисте, Maly Mayak / Малий Маяк, Maloritschenske / Малоріченське, Nyschnje Saprudne / Нижнє Запрудне, Nyschnja Kutusowka / Нижня Кутузовка, Prywitne / Привітне, Puschkine / Пушкіне, Rybatsche / Рибаче, Sonjatschnohirske / Сонячногірське ) and 8 settlements ( Bondarenkowe / Бондаренкове, Wynohradnyj / Виноградний, Lawanda / Лаванда, Lasurne / Лазурне, Rosowyj / Розовий, Semydwirja / Семидвір ' я, Utios / Утьос, Tschjaka / Чайка ). These are divided into one municipality and settlement 5 district municipalities.

Traffic

By public transport Alushta can only be reached by bus. There are direct buses and the longest trolleybus line in the world connect with Alushta Simferopol (approx. 40 km) and Yalta (approx. 20 km), the latter is operated by the Company Krymskyj trolejbus. The Überlandtrolleybus also provides Simferopol via her connection to the railway network and to the international airport Simferopol. In Alushta itself also still exists an urban trolleybus network, it is also operated by Krymskyj trolejbus and includes a total of three lines (1, 1A and 2). The shipping has for Alushta, however, only minor importance.

History

The history dates back to early times Aluschtas how the story all over the Crimea. During the ancient times was at this point a village, and in the 6th century I. ( 482-565 ) on the orders of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian built the fortress Aluston. During the Tatar invasion of the city was destroyed the fort in 1239.

In the 1380er -Jahren seized the Genoese Aluschtas, although the Crimea at that time belonged to the sphere of the Mongolo Tatars of the Golden Horde. The Genoese called the city Lusta. They built the fort and strengthened them. Part of the wall and a tower remain. Under Ottoman suzerainty in 1475, the city was part of the Sudak Kadylyk within the Khanate of Crimea. She stayed first a Christian settlement.

The Ottoman rule ended with the Russian-Turkish war 1768-1774. Alushta from 1802 bears the official status of a city. Since 1838, the office district to district Yalta belonged. Until the deportation of the Crimean Tatars by Stalin on May 18, 1944, Alushta one of three places - in addition Karasubazar (now Bilohirsk ) and Bakhchisaray - with a Crimean Tatar majority.