Old postcards Yalta

This section collects view postcards of Yalta through 1991 — series from the 1960s, 1980 and 1987. The photographs show the embankment, the sea port, beaches and resort buildings of the Southern Coast of Crimea.

Recognisable subjects include the sea terminal and pleasure-boat piers, the Oreanda and Yalta hotels, the Espanola schooner, the A.P. Chekhov house-museum, the Y.A. Gagarin Primorsky Park, the Hill of Glory memorial and the obelisk with the Sovnarkom decree on Crimea as a health resort.

The resort character is completed by the Yalta, Dolossy and Gorsky sanatoriums, the Donbass and Mishor boarding houses, Massandra beaches, the Lesnoy restaurant, Polyana Skazok, and views of the Alupka Palace Museum, Simeiz and the Swallow’s Nest.

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