Old postcards Feodosiya

This section collects view postcards of Feodosia through 1991 — series from the late 1950s, the 1970s and the early 1980s. The photographs show the port, resort buildings, the fortress and memorial sites of the Crimean city.

Recognisable subjects include the Genoese fortress and Constantine Tower, the I.K. Aivazovsky Picture Gallery, the Aivazovsky monument and fountain, his grave, the A.S. Green literary memorial museum, the Krym cinema and the Astoria Hotel.

The resort character is completed by the Voskhod sanatorium (several blocks), the children’s sanatoriums Volna and Zvyozdochka, the first city beach, Desantnikov Embankment, Mount Kara-Dag and the Writers’ House of Creativity. There are also Great Patriotic War memorials, the monument to pioneer Vitia Korobkov and the naval gun of the 1941 Feodosia landing.

Dates and captions are useful for collectors and historians of Crimean resort towns. The catalogue is expanded with new views of Feodosia; browse the current cards and compare them with other Ukrainian cities in the Old Postcards archive.