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Coordinates: 44°23′32″N 33°47′9″E / 44.39222°N 33.78583°E

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Foros Форос

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Coordinates: 44°23′32″N 33°47′9″E / 44.39222°N 33.78583°E / 44.39222; 33.78583
Republic	Crimea
Region	Yalta Municipality
Local council	Foros
Elevation	50 m (160 ft)
Population (2014)
• Total	1,844
Time zone	UTC+3 (MSK)
Postal code	98690
Area code	+380-654
Climate	Cfa / 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).^[1]

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.^[2]

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.

References

^ 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.
^ "Форосская церковь". crimea-tour.ru. 2003. Archived from the original on 2010-09-18. Retrieved 2010-07-07.

External links

Санатории Форос - (in Russian)
Media related to Category:Foros at Wikimedia Commons

v t e Yalta Municipality
Administrative center: Yalta
Cities	Alupka Yalta	Coat of arms of Yalta Municipality
Rural settlements	Danylivka Hirne Kuibysheve Liniine Okhotnyche Olyva Partyzanske Vysokohirne
Villages	Opolzneve