Yevpatoria

Yevpatoria (Ukrainian: Євпаторія, romanized: Yevpatoriia; Russian: Евпатория, romanized: Yevpatoriya; Crimean Tatar: Kezlev, Кезлев) is a city of regional significance in Western Crimea, north of Kalamita Bay. Yevpatoria serves as the administrative center of Yevpatoria Municipality, one of the districts (raions) into which Crimea is divided. Population: 105,719 (2014 Census).[1]

"Kerkinitis" redirects here. It is not to be confused with Kerkini.
Yevpatoria

Євпаторія (Ukrainian)
Евпатория (Russian)
Kezlev  (Crimean Tatar)
Кезлев (Crimean Tatar)
Yevpatoria panorama
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Coat of arms
Yevpatoria
Location of Yevpatoria within Crimea
Coordinates: 45°11′38″N 33°22′5″E
CountryRussia (de facto) Ukraine (de jure)
RegionCrimea
Area
 • Total120 km2 (50 sq mi)
Elevation
10 m (30 ft)
Population
 (2014)
105,719
 • Density1,618.37/km2 (4,191.6/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+3 (MSK)
Postal code
97400 — 97490
Area code(s)+7-36569
ClimateCfa
Websitewww.kalamit.info

History

Greek settlement
Main article: Greeks in pre-Roman Crimea

The first recorded settlement in the area, called Kerkinitis (Κερκινίτις), was built by Greek colonists around 500 BC. Along with the rest of Crimea, Kerkinitis formed part of the dominions of Mithridates VI, King of Pontus (r. 120–63 BC), from whose nickname, Eupator ("of noble father"), the city's modern name derives.

Khanate period

From roughly the 7th through the 10th centuries AD, Yevpatoria was a Khazar settlement; its name in Khazar language was probably Güzliev (literally "beautiful house").[2] It was later subject to the Cumans (Kipchaks), the Mongols and the Crimean Khanate. During this period the city was called Kezlev by Crimean Tatars and Gözleve by Ottomans. The Russian medieval name Kozlov is a Russification of the Crimean Tatar name. For a short period between 1478 and 1485, the city was administrated by the Ottoman Empire. Afterwards, it became an important urban center of the Crimean Khanate.

Main article: Juma-Jami Mosque, Yevpatoria

The 400-year-old Juma Jami mosque is one of the many designed by the Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan. It was built from 1552 until 1564. 35-metre minarets rose on the flanks of the building. The mosque was of great state significance. It was here that a ceremony of the declaration of rights of the Crimean Khans was held at their enthronement. Only after that they went to their capital, the city of Bakhchisarai.

Entrance to the Karaite Kenassa in Yevpatoria
Main article: Crimean Karaites

Yevpatoria became a residence of the spiritual ruler of the Karaites, the Gakham. In this connection here, a complex of two praying houses was built under the supervision of the Rabovich brothers, in which forms of the Renaissance and Muslim architecture entwined in a most unusual manner. The ensemble organically incorporates three courtyards. The entrance to it is marked by the gates, built in 1900, which look like a refined triumphal arch.

Russian rule
USSR road sign on P25 road in Crimea

In 1783, along with the rest of the Crimea, Kezlev was captured by the Russian Empire. Its name was officially changed to Yevpatoriya in 1784. The name comes from the Greek Eupatoria (transliteration from Greek to Russian is Евпатория) in honor of Eupator Dionysius, king of Pontus. This spelling of the city name came to the French, German, Spanish and English languages at the end of the 18th сentury. The spelling Yevpatoriya came to English from the Ukrainian name Євпаторія, in the second half of the 20th century.

Adam Mickiewicz visited the town in 1825 and wrote one of his Crimean Sonnets here; it was later translated into Russian by Mikhail Lermontov.

The city was occupied in September 1854 by British, French and Turkish troops during the Crimean War prior to the Allied landing in Kalamita Bay, after which the Battle of the Alma south of the bay followed. It became a garrison of Ottoman troops later during the war and was the site of the Battle of Eupatoria in February 1855, which was the largest military clash in the Crimean theatre outside the Sevastopol area.

Modern Yevpatoria

USSR
Hydro-massage on Lake Moynaki

In 1930s it was a question about the medical profile resort of Yevpatoria. Natural factors create excellent conditions for the treatment of osteo-articular tuberculosis and other children's diseases. In 1933, at a scientific conference in Yalta, it was agreed that among the Soviet resort towns Yevpatoria, Odessa, Anapa, or one of the South Coast of Crimea - the most suitable for the organization of children's resort is Yevpatoria. In Yevpatoria there is a perfect combination of climatic and balneological factors contributing to the healing of the most serious diseases of this time like tuberculosis  . An additional positive factor is the lack of mosquitoes in Yevpatoria, as on the southern coast of Crimea, or mosquitoes as in Anapa.

In 1936, the government decided to determine the place of construction of the All-Union children's resort in Yevpatoria. In 1938, the approved plan of general reconstruction of the city. During World War II, sanatoriums were used as military hospitals. By July 1, 1945 in Yevpatoria operated 14 sanatoriums, have taken 2,885 people. By 1980s, in city operated 78 sanatoriums for 33 thousand people. About one million vacationers visited Yevpatoria in summer time without the purpose of treatment.

Ukraine

Today Yevpatoria is a major Black Sea port, a rail hub, and resort town. The population swells greatly during the summer months, with many residents of northern cities visiting for beach recreation. As such, local residents are heavily employed during summer months but are often underemployed during the winter. The main industries include fishing, food processing, wine making, limestone quarrying, weaving, and the manufacture of building materials, machinery, furniture manufacturing and tourism.

Yevpatoria has spas of mineral water, salt and mud lakes. These resorts belong to a vast area with curative facilities where the main health-improving factors are the sunshine and sea, air and sand, brine and mud of the salt lakes, as well as the mineral water of the hot springs. The population of the town is sure to have known about the curative qualities of the local mud that can be found here from time immemorial, which is witnessed by the manuscripts of Pliny the Elder, a Roman scholar (ca 80 BC).

On December 24, 2008 a blast destroyed a five-story building in the town. 27 people were killed. President Viktor Yushchenko declared December 26 to be a day of national mourning.[3][4][5][6][7]

Two beaches in Yevpatoria have been Blue Flag beaches since May 2010, these were the first beaches (with two beaches in Yalta) to be awarded a Blue Flag in a CIS memberstate.[8]

Economy and Industry
  • Industry, Engineering
  • Agriculture
  • AO Vympel NPO (MicroElectronics and Electronics, circuits microchips IC, Electrical parts, connectors, optoelectronics television and other devices and machinery, metallurgy engineering technology)
  • Eupatoria Aircraft Plant and Repair EupAZ EARZ (Antonov Mil Kamov Suhoj MiG Yak Il Tu, An22 Su25 MiG31 Yak38 Be12, transport aircraft and amphibious)
  • Construction, Building

Education

Demographics

Ethnic composition of Yevpatoria in 2001 according to the Ukrainian census:

  1. Russians: 64,9%
  2. Ukrainians: 23,3%
  3. Crimean Tatars: 6,9%
  4. Belarusians: 1,5%
  5. Armenians: 0,5%
  6. Jews: 0,4%
  7. Tatars (excluding Crimean Tatars): 0,2%
  8. Poles: 0,2%
  9. Moldovans: 0,2%
  10. Azerbaijanis: 0,2%

Climate

Yevpatoria has a humid subtropical climate (Cfa) under the Köppen climate classification with cool winters and warm to hot summers.

Climate data for Eupatoria
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Average high °C (°F) 5.0
(41.0)		 5.4
(41.7)		 10.2
(50.4)		 16.1
(61.0)		 22.6
(72.7)		 28.1
(82.6)		 30.3
(86.5)		 31.0
(87.8)		 24.5
(76.1)		 17.6
(63.7)		 11.7
(53.1)		 7.7
(45.9)		 16.3
(61.3)
Daily mean °C (°F) 1.7
(35.1)		 2.0
(35.6)		 6.1
(43.0)		 11.2
(52.2)		 17.5
(63.5)		 22.8
(73.0)		 25.0
(77.0)		 25.4
(77.7)		 19.4
(66.9)		 13.3
(55.9)		 8.1
(46.6)		 4.6
(40.3)		 13.1
(55.6)
Average low °C (°F) −1.1
(30.0)		 −0.7
(30.7)		 2.8
(37.0)		 7.2
(45.0)		 13.4
(56.1)		 18.4
(65.1)		 20.5
(68.9)		 20.4
(68.7)		 14.9
(58.8)		 9.6
(49.3)		 4.9
(40.8)		 2.0
(35.6)		 9.4
(48.8)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 39
(1.5)		 26
(1.0)		 31
(1.2)		 24
(0.9)		 26
(1.0)		 48
(1.9)		 33
(1.3)		 24
(0.9)		 46
(1.8)		 36
(1.4)		 31
(1.2)		 38
(1.5)		 402
(15.6)
Average precipitation days 4 2 4 1 2 3 1 0 1 2 2 4 26
Source: pogodaiklimat.ru[9]

Area attractions

Famous attractions within or near Yevpatoria are:

The garden at the Karaite Kenasa in Yevpatoria

Famous people from Yevpatoria

Names of asteroid number 6489 and number 24648

Asteroid number 6489 has a name Golevka, which has a complicated origin. In 1995, Golevka was studied simultaneously by three radar observatories across the world: Goldstone in California, Eupatoria RT-70 radio telescope (Yevpatoriya is sometimes romanized as Evpatoria or Eupatoria (Russian origin)) and Kashima in Japan. 'Gol-Ev-Ka' comes from the first few letters of each observatory's name; it was proposed by the discoverer following a suggestion by Alexander L. Zaitsev.

Asteroid 24648 Evpatoria was discovered 1985 Sept. 19 by Nikolai Chernykh and Lyudmila Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, and named in honor of Evpatoria (transliteration from Russian to English, thus Yevpatoriya). The minor planet marked the occasion of the 2500th anniversary of the town in 2003.[11]

Twin towns – sister cities
Arms City Nation Since
Ioannina  Greece 1989
Figueira da Foz  Portugal 1989
Ludwigsburg  Germany 1992
Zakynthos  Greece 2002
Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski  Poland 2004
Krasnogorsky District  Russia 2006
Lambie  Greece 2009
Belgorod  Russia 2010
  • Hydro-massage on Lake Moynaki
  • Lake Moinaki left, right Black Sea
  • Odun-Bazar-Kapusu - reconstructed tower of the medieval Kezlev
  • The Juma-Jami Mosque designed in 1522 by Mimar Sinan
  • Vacation on the Black Sea coast in Yevpatoria
  • The port of Yevpatoria
  • Monument to Crimean Tatar poet Omer Gezlevi
  • Golden beach of the Black Sea coast
  • Holiday by Lake Moinaki
  • Healing Lake Moinaki
  • Therapeutic mud
  • Tramway

See also

References
  1. Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2014). "Таблица 1.3. Численность населения Крымского федерального округа, городских округов, муниципальных районов, городских и сельских поселений" [Table 1.3. Population of Crimean Federal District, Its Urban Okrugs, Municipal Districts, Urban and Rural Settlements]. Федеральное статистическое наблюдение «Перепись населения в Крымском федеральном округе». ("Population Census in Crimean Federal District" Federal Statistical Examination) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  2. Brutzkus, Julius (1944). "The Khazar Origin of Ancient Kiev", Slavonic and East European Review, p. 118
  3. UPDATE: 26 Killed, 5 Hospitalized After Crimea House Blast, Ukrainian News Agency (December 26, 2008)
  4. Death toll of Crimean blast reaches 27, says Emergencies Ministry, Interfax-Ukraine (December 26, 2008)
  5. Friday Declared Mourning Day In Ukraine For Victims Of Yevpatoriya Gas Explosion Archived 2012-09-13 at Archive.today, Ukrainian News Agency (December 26, 2008)
  6. Ukraine mourns Crimea blast dead, BBC News (December 26, 2008)
  7. 27 dead after Ukrainian apartment blast, CNN (December 26, 2008)
  8. Four beaches in Crimea receive international certificates of cleanliness, Kyiv Post (May 12, 2010)
  9. "Evpatoria Climate Summary". pogodaiklimat.ru. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  10. fr:Sémion Ezrovitch Douvan
  11. JPL Small-Body Database, NASA
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