Hurzuf

Gurzuf (Ukrainian Гурзуф; Russian Гурзуф / Gursuf, Crimean Tatar Gurzuf ) is an urban-type settlement and resort on the south coast of the Crimea.

Administratively, the settlement to the south-west town of Yalta is one of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Also to the county include the urban-type settlement Krasnokamjanka / Краснокам ' янка and 3 settlements Danyliwka / Данилівка, Linijne / Лінійне and Partysanske / Партизанське.

Gurzuf is one of the oldest settlements of the Crimea. The Byzantines built here in the 6th century, the fortress Gursuwita.

In 1820, the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin spent three weeks. This stay is said to have inspired him to this poem: "Well are you, Tauriens shore, if prior to the ship in the morning light you rise from the ocean paths, as I saw you for the first time ."

The Russian writer Anton Chekhov had in Gurzuf a cottage where he worked in his Yalta time. Today, this is a branch of the Chekhov Museum in Yalta.

Particularly noteworthy is the trolleybus line through Gurzuf which exists since 1961 and is the longest in the world. It is operated by the Company Krymskyj trolejbus and runs between Simferopol, Alushta and Yalta.