Foros
Форос
Flag of Foros
Flag
Coat of arms of Foros
Coat of arms
Foros is located in Ukraine
Foros
Foros
Location of Foros within the Crimea
Foros is located in Crimea
Foros
Foros
Foros (Crimea)
Coordinates: 44°23′32″N 33°47′9″E / 44.39222°N 33.78583°E / 44.39222; 33.78583
CountryTerritory of Ukraine, occupied by Russia[1]
RepublicCrimea
RegionYalta Municipality
Local councilForos
Elevation
50 m (160 ft)
Population
 (2014)
 • Total1,844
Time zoneUTC+3 (MSK)
Postal code
98690
Area code+380-654
ClimateCfa / Csa

Foros (Ukrainian: Форос; Russian: Форо́с, Crimean Tatar: Foros, Greek: Phàros, Φάρος) is a resort town (an urban-type settlement, legally) in Yalta Municipality of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory of Ukraine and occupied by Russia under the name of ″Republic of Crimea″. Population: 1,844 (2014 Census).[2]

Foros is the southernmost resort in Crimea and in all of Ukraine.

The settlement was founded and named by medieval Greek merchants. It was rediscovered in the late 19th century by Alexander Kuznetsov, a Russian "tea king" who had his palace built on the sea shore. It was Kuznetsov who commissioned the town's main landmark, the Resurrection Church. This ornate five-domed architectural extravaganza is sited on a 400-metre cliff overlooking Foros.[3]

The Soviet leaders had several state dachas built near Foros. One of these came to international attention during the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, when the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev had been vacationing at the time of the coup. Gorbachev's luxury dacha had been fired upon a couple of times during the capture, after which Gorbachev was placed under house arrest.

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  1. ↑ This place is located on the Crimean peninsula, which is internationally recognized as part of Ukraine, but since 2014 under Russian occupation. According to the administrative-territorial division of Ukraine, there are the Ukrainian divisions (the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city with special status of Sevastopol) located on the peninsula. Russia claims these as federal subjects of the Russian Federation (the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol).
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ "Форосская церковь". crimea-tour.ru. 2003. Archived from the original on 2010-09-18. Retrieved 2010-07-07.
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