About Yalta

Yalta is a city in southern Crimea, Ukraine. It faces the Black Sea on the southern shore of the Crimean Peninsula. Settlement on the site dates from prehistoric times - Yalta is on the site of an ancient Greek colony, but modern Yalta developed only in the early 19th century, becoming a town in 1838. The population of Yalta is 82,000. Its mild winters and scenic location between sea and mountains have made it one of the most popular vacation and health resorts of the Crimea. There are numerous hotels, sanatoriums, and tourist and rest homes-many of which were built as villas by the nobility before the Russian Revolution. Nearby is the town and palace of Livadiya, where Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin met in February, 1945 during World War II (the famous Yalta Conference).