Crimea saki. A unique place to stay - the city of Saki

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  • Saki. The second book of the historical novel "Scythians", Nikolai Sokolov. The second book of the historical novel "Scythians" tells about the beginning of the Scythian-Persian war. In 519 BC, Persian troops invaded the Scythian lands and crossed the Arax River. After…

And 45 km from Simferopol, the Crimean capital. It received city status in 1952. It is the center of the district of the same name, but it does not include: Saki is a city of republican subordination. As of 2015, about 24 thousand people permanently live in the city.

Saki - modern, famous in Europe balneological resort. annual recovery and rest in Saki chosen by thousands of tourists from all over the world.

Nature and climate of Saki

The fame of Sakami as a balneological resort has brought salt Lake, stretching next to it for five kilometers. The lake appeared on the site of a river that was flooded by the Black Sea five thousand years ago. At its bottom, layers of clay, pebbles, silt and salt began to be deposited. The resulting mixture, which has healing properties, became healing mud. Its unique composition in some respects surpasses the mud of the Israeli Dead Sea.

The table salt of the Saki Lakes began to be eaten - it was here that the famous Chumatsky Way lay, along which the Cossacks once went to the Crimea for "white gold".

There are mineral springs in the area. Their slightly alkaline water, known under the brand name " Crimean mineral", is not inferior in properties to the mineral waters of Essentuki and Truskavets.

Another healing natural resource what makes holidays in Saki attractive is the climate. Saks, 5 km away from the sea, are located in the coastal-steppe climate zone. Summers are hot here (July temperature is +23.3°C), and winters are mild (average February temperature is -1°C). average temperature per year is +11.2°C at a relative humidity of 77%. The sky over Sakami is greedy for precipitation, but generous with the sun: it shines over the area for about 2500 hours a year. The swimming season begins in the first days of June and continues until the beginning of October. Water during this period warms up to +17°C.

In Saki is one of the most beautiful places Crimea- City Park . Thirty sculptural compositions are located in the man-made arboretum in the shade of eighty species of shrubs and trees.

The combination of thermal mineral springs, a salt lake with silt mud, an arboretum and the sea makes the climate of Sak beneficial for humans. While in Saki, be sure to visit:

  • Saki salt lake;
  • Mikhailovsky lake.

History of Sak

There are several versions about the origin of the name " saki". According to one of them, the city inherited the Persian name of the Scythians who inhabited it in ancient times: the Persians called the Scythians "Saks". The second version is tied to the healing properties of Lake Saki - translated from the Turkic "saki" means "dirt", and "sak" - "strength, fortress".

The exact time of the appearance of the first settlement on the site of the city of Saki has not been established. About 25 centuries ago, Greek colonists began to actively populate the Crimean coast, and it is likely that the history of Sak began at that time. At the beginning of our era, the village was well known to the Romans: this is evidenced by the many ancient coins found during excavations in the vicinity of Sak.

In the Middle Ages, Saki was a small village, the property of the wealthy Crimean family Mansur, and was part of the Crimean Khanate. Life in the village was measured and repeated the historical fate of the entire Crimea, passing from hand to hand from the Tatars to the Genoese and Turks, from the Turks to Russia.

The Saks were spoken loudly during the Crimean War. Not far from the village, between the lakes of Kyzyl-Yar and Saksky, the bulk of the coalition army landed. In February 1855, near the village were the forces of the Russian army, preparing under the command of General S.A. Khrulev to the assault on Evpatoria. During the fighting, the village of Saki was destroyed.

The end of the Crimean War caused the emigration of the Crimean Tatars from the Sak. The deserted village was rebuilt slowly and with difficulty. In 1858, families from the Poltava province moved to it, later the Greeks of Constantinople appeared.

The mud of Lake Saki has been used for medicinal purposes since the Middle Ages. We noticed the healing properties of local silt, according to the legend, thanks to one chumak who came to these places for salt. His overburdened oxen got stuck in the coastal mud, and the chumak fussed with them until morning, trampling in the mud with his sore feet. Returning home, he suddenly felt that the chronic pain had left his legs ...

In 1827, the county doctor S.N. Auger began to officially practice in Saki mud therapy. He was prompted to such a decision by the results of research by Russian scientists on the chemical composition of the Saka mud, which discovered unique healing properties. 1827 is considered the birth year of the Saki resort.

By the end of the 19th century, the village began to flourish: hospitals and hotels were built, sanatoriums were opened. Local mud helps Tsarevich Alexei, heir to the Russian throne, get rid of his illness. Famous people are starting to come here. Remember: "and the princes are in the mud"?

Young Soviet Russia took up "sanatorium" issues only in the early 30s of the last century. The healing properties of the Saki mud were so highly valued that since 1938 the health resorts of the resort switched to year-round treatment.

During the Great Patriotic War most of rest houses and sanatoriums in Saki was destroyed. After the victory, they were among the first to be restored.

The infrastructure of the health resorts of today's resort can be the envy of many European resorts. And the amazing restorative properties of Saki mud continue to attract tourists from all over the world. Rest in Saki can be diversified with excursions to local attractions:

  • Church of St. Elijah;
  • local history museum;
  • sanatorium named after Burdenko;
  • Greek-Scythian settlement of Kara-tobe;
  • Saki resort park;
  • square named after Pushkin.

Sanatoriums in Saki

Sanatoriums Sak are known as a resort for the treatment of infertility and gynecological diseases. Local climatic conditions and balneological resources also help physicians to successfully cope with diseases of the nervous system, cardiovascular diseases and diseases of the digestive system.

Best sanatoriums Sack:

  • named after N. N. Burdenko;
  • "Blue Wave";
  • named after N. I. Pirogov;
  • "Saki";
  • « Northern lights»;
  • "Poltava-Crimea";
  • "Yurmino";
  • "Tangier".

Are there beaches in Saki?

Between Saki and Yevpatoriya there is an entertainment complex "Solnyshko". The complex with an area of ​​4.5 hectares has:

  • 450-meter equipped beach;
  • various equipment rental points;
  • water attractions; diving center with professional instructors;
  • sports grounds for playing aquaball, streetball, volleyball, paintball;
  • playground;
  • bars with great bartenders;
  • cafe with national cuisines Crimean peoples;
  • the largest dance floor of the Crimea (accommodates 3 thousand people).

Food in Saki

Options food in Saki- usual for the Crimean resorts. You can buy food and cook on your own, you can eat in canteens and restaurants. In the private sector homeowners often cook inexpensively and tasty. The price of an average lunch starts from $5. The best restaurants and cafes in Sak: "Coffee House", "Crimean Yard", "Smak", "Hellas", "Oriental Cuisine", "Cheburechnaya No. 1".

Accommodation in Saki and housing prices

Saki is a city-hospital, with a calm and quiet atmosphere. Holidays on the Black Sea here are more connected with health improvement and sea climate than with daily lying on the beach. Therefore, when planning a vacation in Saki, it is advisable to rely on accommodation in a sanatorium. Where, no matter how there, will you be closest to the Saki mud and to people who know how to deal with it? If the sanatorium is not available to you, you can stay in Saki:

  • at the Garrison Hotel;
  • in the hotel "Sahara";
  • guest house "Edem"

The most attractive prices in guest house"Eden" - from $15 per night.

Saki is the largest balneological resort, a place where people have been officially treated with mud for almost 200 years. And let “rest on the Black Sea” be a relative concept here, ancient city deserves to, at least passing through, look into it.

saki- a city on the western coast of Crimea, located 4-5 kilometers from the Black Sea coast. According to one version, the city got its name from the Persian name of the Scythian tribes living in this territory, whom they called "Saks". On the other - from the translation from the Turkic word "dirt".
It is a large balneological resort. The territory of the city is 29 sq. km., according to the data for 2015, the population is 25,195 people.


Climate

The climate is coastal-steppe, very arid, moderately mild, with mild winters. Strong steppe winds are frequent. The average annual air temperature is +11.2 °C. The average temperature of the summer months is +22 °C. Winters are mild, with prevailing temperatures near freezing. There are more sundial than in Yalta.

Story

The exact date of the founding of the city is not known. However, the results of the excavations allow us to say that these places have been inhabited since ancient times.
So, in 1929, traces of a settlement that arose in the Bronze Age, about three thousand years ago, were discovered near the village of Novofedorovka.
Scythian tribes in the region of Lake Saki and in other places west coast Crimea lived in the period from the IV century BC. e. and up to the 4th century AD. e.
Some finds allow us to talk about the great influence of ancient Greek culture. The Scythians considered themselves descendants of the legendary Hercules, whose son was called Scythian.
About mud treatment in these places in the 5th century BC. e. mentioned by Herodotus, and later by other scientists and historians of those times.
Later, nomadic tribes lived in these places - the Huns, Khazars, Pechenegs, Polovtsy.
During the time of the Crimean Khanate, Saki was a small village that was part of the possessions of the noble Crimean family Mansur.
In 1827, the first mud bath in Russia was founded in Saki, and ten years later, a branch of the Simferopol military hospital was opened here.


During the Crimean War of 1853-1856. the village of Saki was destroyed.
After the Crimean War, during the second wave of emigration of the Crimean Tatars in 1860-1864, Saky left most of the Crimean Tatar population and was re-populated by Tatars, Greeks and Russian settlers. Later, settlers from the Poltava province settled, then the Greeks, immigrants from Constantinople, also appeared.
In the 1880-1890s, a new building of a mud bath, a barrack for free zemstvo patients, a hotel, and a bathroom department were built. At the same time, the park, now called Kurortny, was founded.
By 1915, a railroad had been built to the city.
During the revolution, Saki was badly destroyed, after which much had to be restored and rebuilt.
By the end of the 1930s, Saki had become a large resort village. A school, cinemas, kindergartens and nurseries, libraries were built, electrification and radio installation of the village and the region were carried out. The population of Sak has grown to 8 thousand people.
On October 29, 1941, the village of Saki was occupied by the Nazis, and was liberated only in April 1944.
June 10, 1952 Saki became a city. In 1953, all the buildings of health resorts were re-commissioned.
In 1973, the Poltava sanatorium was opened, in 1974 the famous sanatorium named after M. N. N. Burdenko.
Currently, Saki is a major balneological resort.

Resort

Saki is located near the Saki Lake, the bottom of which is covered with a thick layer of silt mineral mud. This mud is unique in its healing properties. Therapeutic mud, brine, mineral water used to treat patients, improve metabolic processes, peripheral circulation, blood circulation internal organs, blood supply to the heart, the function of the cardiovascular system, have an analgesic, anti-inflammatory, resolving effect, stimulate regenerative processes, normalize hormonal levels, and contribute to the removal of radionuclides from the body.


The lake is shallow, about five kilometers long and up to three kilometers wide. Saki Lake is divided into two parts by an artificial bridge. The western basin serves as a raw material base for a chemical plant, while the eastern silt is used by the sanatoriums of the Saki resort and medical institutions of the Crimea.


There are several sanatoriums in Saki: "Poltava", "Saki", "Sakropol", "Northern Lights", "Blue Wave", a unique specialized sanatorium for the treatment of spinal patients, named after Academician N. Burdenko and others.
A distinctive feature of the city is its adaptability for wheelchair users.
Therapeutic mud is also available in other lakes of the Saki region (Sasyk-Sivash, Kyzyl-Yar), but it is chemical composition significantly inferior to the mud of Lake Saki.

The sea beaches of the resort are located 4-5 km from the city.

The central beach of the Saki district is covered with fine golden sand and equipped with everything necessary for relaxation: sun loungers, changing rooms and showers. There are cafes, shops and rentals.

The beaches of the village of Novofedorovka, up to 100 meters wide, consist of small pebbles, and in some places sand. The day is flat. The beach is equipped with beach infrastructure.

Near the village of Pribrezhnoye there is a wide sand and pebble beach, also equipped with everything necessary for recreation.


Attractions

resort park founded in 1890 - 1892, has up to eighty species of trees and shrubs.
Three lakes were created in the park (Swan Lake and two others - a semblance of the Black and Azov Seas), fountains, a Greek gazebo. The vacated land was used to create a hill, on which coniferous and deciduous shrubs were planted.
Ancient buildings, some of which are more than 100 years old, have survived to the present day on the territory of the Kurortny Park.


Mineral water pump room on st. Resort. Mineral water is extracted from a well with a depth of 980 meters and is thermal (+ 39 ... 40 ° C). According to the chemical composition, the water turned out to be bicarbonate-chloride-sodium, slightly alkaline, with a salinity of salts of 2.1-2.3 g/l. It contains a number of trace elements, nitrogen and some rare gases.
In addition, the water is bottled and sold under the name "Crimean".

off the coast Lake Saki, next to the pump room of mineral water, you can see brontosaur sculpture life-size, created by Evpatoria sculptor A. Likhosherstov and architect K. Vodzinsky in 1932. The sculpture was reconstructed in 1983. "Brontya", as it is also called, is now a symbol of the city of Saki and is located on its coat of arms.


Sculpture "Brontosaurus" in Saki

Hill Kara-Tobe(Black Hill) is located northwest of the city of Saki, near the village of Coastal. This place archaeological sites Greek-Scythian settlement. The remains of a fortress built in the 2nd century BC have been excavated. e., including the central donjon tower, several structures adjacent to it, and the remains of a defensive wall. According to one hypothesis, this is the legendary Evpatorion fortress, built by the commander Diophantus on the orders of the Bosporan king Mithridates VI Evpator.
The building of the former command post of the Black Sea Fleet, located on a hilltop, houses the Museum of Antiquities of the North-Western Crimea. In it you can see the archaeological finds found on the territory of the settlement. The only Scythian manor in the world has been reproduced on the territory of the settlement within the framework of the experimental archeology project.


It is located in the central part of the city on the former market square (Simferopolskaya St., 38). The temple was opened in 1903. In 1930, the temple was converted into a club, as a result of which it lost some of its decoration, including the main dome. Services resumed in 1942, but the full restoration of the temple began only in 1990.


Translated from Turkish "mud"- a well-known balneological resort located in the western part of the Crimean peninsula at a distance of 19 kilometers from and 45 kilometers from.

They differ from other Crimean resorts in that the sea is at a distance of 4-5 kilometers. It is convenient to get to it by city bus. The journey will take no more than a quarter of an hour. here are sandy, and the sea is shallow and warm, which makes holidays in Saki preferable for children.

What to see in Saki?

The main attraction of the city is the therapeutic mud of the local lake, which is characterized by a unique composition and, in terms of its healing properties, is equal to the mud of the Dead Sea. The water of the lake, saturated with salt, will also benefit health.

Salt mined in the lake was widely used for food purposes in the past. This is where the Chumatsky Way ended. Now the production of salt has been reduced, but still it can be found on sale under the name "Sea Table Salt". It is much more useful than usual.

Near the city there are also slightly alkaline mineral springs. Such water can be purchased at a store called "Crimean". In terms of its properties, it is comparable to the mineral waters produced in Truskavets and Essentuki.

rest in Sakah will help to significantly improve the health of people suffering from a variety of chronic diseases. In some cases, it is even possible to completely get rid of the disease.

Sanatoriums in Saki are open all year round. Gynecological diseases, diseases of the musculoskeletal, cardiac, circulatory and digestive systems are treated here.

Lesya Ukrainka, N.V. Gogol, S.O. Makarov. In memory of this, monuments were erected to them in the city. The Saka mud helped to get rid of diseases and the heir to the Russian throne - Tsarevich Alexei.

For those who prefer wine to mineral water, will open its doors tasting room "Seventh Heaven".

Lovers of antiquity will be interested Greco-Scythian settlement of Kara-Tobe. Here is located historical Museum. There is also a local history museum in the city.

Leisure and entertainment resort

The pride of the city Resort arboretum, on the territory of which more than 80 woody plants grow. Its area is 50 hectares. The park is decorated with 30 sculptural compositions, which gives it a unique flavor. If you wish, you can walk along the shady alleys, admiring the surrounding landscape, or relax in the pergola of climbing plants, breathing in the amazing aroma of flower beds.

Another favorite local residents and guests of the city place - mikhailovskoe lake. Here you can fish, admire numerous birds, visit a small menagerie, which will be especially interesting for children, go boating or kayaking.

Kids will get a lot of pleasant and vivid impressions when visiting a city located not far from the city.

lovers active rest will be able to ride on a "banana" or "tablet", play volleyball, billiards or tennis with friends, sit in a cozy cafe.

If you want extreme entertainment, you will have to look for them in neighboring resorts or go to the entertainment complex "Solnyshko" located at a distance of 8 kilometers. Here you will be offered to play volleyball, streetball, paintball, aquaball, go diving, visit the largest dance floor in Crimea. If you get hungry during outdoor activities, you can enjoy the dishes of the Crimean peoples in local cafes.

City - resort Saki

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Saki is the oldest health resort in Crimea. According to one version, it got its name from the Saks tribe, which roamed the peninsula in the 1st millennium BC, and according to another, from the Turkic word "Saki", which translates as healing mud.

During the Crimean Khanate, Saki was a small village. In 1827, a mud bath was opened in it. At different times, Lesya Ukrainka, Stepan Osipovich Makarov, Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol were treated in it. In 1854, it was in Saki that the coalition troops landed and laid siege to Sevastopol.
Now Saki is a resort that specializes in the treatment of mud, brine and mineral waters.

Sights of Saki (Crimea)

Every year it is visited by about 200 thousand tourists. The health resort is decorated with a necklace of sights. Read more about them in the review below.

The name Kara-Tobe in Tatar means "black hill". It was given to the area during the time of the Crimean Khanate. Archaeological research on Kara-Tobe began in 1983. Since that time, many ancient Greek and Scythian monuments have been excavated.

A Scythian dwelling was recreated on the basis of the foundation found in the settlement. It consists of rooms for people and animals, a small courtyard. The house is furnished with exact copies of items found in Kara-Tobe.

Also, on the site of the settlement of Kara-Tobe, the remains of a Greek fortress with the main donjon tower were found. Scientists claim that these are the ruins of the Yevpatoriya castle, which was built in the 2nd century BC and was an outpost of Greek trade in the Crimea for 150 years.

There are 238 exhibits in the museum's collection. But all of them are unique and are over 2000 years old. Its main pearls are a set of casts from a silver vessel, which was used by a jeweler, ancient Greek women's jewelry and Scythian ceramics. A diorama was opened at the establishment. It depicts the fortress of Evpatoria, approximately as it looked in ancient times.
The Kara-Tobe International Center is located near the P-25 Evpatoria-Simferopol highway. The museum can be reached by:

  • Electric train (Tekhnikum station).
  • Bus or fixed-route taxi(stop "Poselok Pobrezhnoye").
  • Own or rented car - go along the R-25 highway towards Evpatoria, to the white turret, which is located on a small hill.

In summer, the institution is open from 11 am to 6 pm. Groups that are provided with a guide are recruited every hour.

Museum of local lore in Saki

The first museum in Saki was founded in 1909 by the senior physician of the mud bath, Professor Sergey Sergeyevich Nalbandov. He also opened a library at the institution with several hundred books on medicine. In 1910, the museum received the first samples of water from the Saka artesian well.

In the 20s of the last century, the first Saka museum was closed. Of his collections, only a few exhibits have survived. In the mid-30s, at the control and observation station of the resort, they again began to collect things telling about the history of the health resort. During the Great Patriotic War, the exhibits of the second museum were destroyed.

And only in 1983, the city authorities of Sak transferred the mansion of Countess Panina to the local history museum. After 5 years, after the reconstruction of the house, the assembly and ordering of collections, the design of expositions, the institution opened its doors to visitors.
Now the museum shows expositions that are dedicated to:

  • Antique period of the history of Crimea.
  • famous people treated in Saki.
  • To outstanding doctors of the Saki health resort and the history of mud therapy.
  • Crimean War 1854-1855.
  • Yalta conference.
  • Scientific and test springboard for carrier-based aviation (NITKA).
  • Great Patriotic War
  • Life and customs of the Crimean Tatar people
  • Crimean artists
  • Flora and fauna western Crimea.

The institution is located at: st. Kurortnaya 29 in a mansion of the beginning of the 20th century. According to legend, the museum house was originally intended for Tsarevich Alexei. In the rooms of the building, the last heir to the Russian throne was supposed to take baths to heal from hemophilia.
Open from 10:00 to 17:00 on all days of the week except Saturdays and Mondays. The stop of the city bus number 2 is 100 meters further from the sea than the museum.

The Saki resort park was founded in 1891 by gardener P.S. Melnicheko. Before the rooting of the first trees in it, all the holiday-goers of the village were languishing from the heat on the bare steppe. The development of the park began with the drilling of an artesian well from which water was taken for watering plants. Later, the first trees were brought in and planted, and 3 reservoirs were dug. The shapes of 2 ponds followed the contours of the Black and Azov Seas. The park has become a real oasis that attracts holidaymakers and residents of Sak.

An artificial hill was created in it, planted with coniferous and deciduous shrubs. In total, in the first years of the park's existence, 8700 plants were rooted, which belonged to 78 drought-resistant species of flora in Europe, America and Asia. 4 years after its foundation, the reserve received a bronze medal of the agricultural exhibition of the Taurida province.

AT Soviet time saki park has been expanded several times and in 1964 was included in the list of monuments of garden and park culture.

Now it has an area of ​​23 hectares. About 100 species of trees and shrubs grow on the territory of the institution. On the site of the first well, which gave water to the park, a stone pillar was erected. It also marks the border of the Saki hospital at the time of the foundation of the reserve. In the park there are monuments to the poet Lesya Ukrainka and the writer Nikolai Gogol, who visited Saki in the middle of the 19th century.
Saki resort park is located near the sanatoriums "Saki" and them. Burdenko. Near the park there is a mineral water pump room. The park can be reached on foot, by private car or by bus number 2. The stop of the latter is a quarter further from the sea than the reserve.

Lake Saki is a reservoir and a natural laboratory. Its area is almost 10 km². The bottom of the reservoir is covered with natural balm - mud, saturated with salts and minerals. In place of the lake several thousand years ago there was a river bed. Due to the rise in the water level in the Black Sea, it was flooded. The waters of the sea washed up a spit 200-600 meters wide, which separated the channel from the sea and made it a lake.

Since the Middle Ages, salt has been extracted from the reservoir. At the end of the 19th century, a wooden dam was built, which divided the lake into 2 parts. On the smaller, northeastern half, "white gold" was evaporated. Its extraction and the work of the Saki Chemical Plant was stopped just a few years ago due to the threat of destruction of the reservoir ecosystem and flooding. settlements which are located on its coast.

According to the data obtained after the analysis of the mud of Saki Lake in 2001, the content of lipids, amino acids, the amount of vitamins in the reservoir is several times higher than those of the Dead Sea. The mud of the reservoir is packed and delivered to several dozen sanatoriums in Russia.

Near Saki Lake there is a source of mineral water "Crimean". It has a temperature of +37…45°C and belongs to low-mineralized, hydrocarbonate waters.

Several sanatoriums, boarding houses and recreation centers have been built on the shores of the lake. Every year, people with gynecological, skin, urological diseases, diseases of the nervous system, gastrointestinal tract, and the musculoskeletal system rest in them.

Cultural and ethnographic complex "Sergiev Posad" in Saki

At 40 km of the R-25 highway "Simferopol-Evpatoria", 7 km from the center of Sak, there is a cultural and ethnographic complex "Sergiev Posad". In it, on an area of ​​6 hectares, are:

  • Ostrich farm
  • Menagerie
  • Stable
  • Park of wooden sculptures
  • Feather and egg souvenir shop
  • Barbecue and skewers rental
  • Archery range

Excursions that are held in the complex include feeding animals, horseback riding, picnics. The guides tell about the life of 50 species of birds and animals that live in the institution, show how to properly feed the representatives of the fauna. Feeding the animals is allowed only with food purchased in the complex.

Fishing tours in the pond of Sergiev Posad are offered separately. It is inhabited by pikes, mirror carps, catfish. From fish caught in a pond, you can cook your own fish soup. On special requests, cockfights are held in the complex.

For those wishing to stay in the complex for several days, guest houses are open, and wooden bridges are built for fishermen. You can get to Sergiev Posad only as part of excursion groups. The price of visiting each travel agency is set independently.

Since the creation of the mud baths in 1827, the Crimean clergy have constantly raised the issue of building in Saki big temple for residents and guests of the village. In 1861, a small church was erected in the health resort, and in 1894, a 3-storey bell tower. And only in 1902-1903 money was allocated for a large religious building. Kh. V. Vasiliev, who had previously built churches in Alupka, Perekop and other cities of Crimea, was appointed the architect of the building.

The architect planned to build a temple in the Russian-Byzantine style, 34 meters long and 24 meters wide, with 1 large and 4 small domes. He well connected the new church with the already existing bell tower into a single ensemble. In the 1920s, the religious building was converted into a club, and in 1942 the German occupation administration again gave it to the Christian community.

In the 1990s, the church was reconstructed with the restoration of the original appearance of the temple. Now the building is open daily to parishioners.

The church is located in the central part of the city at the address: Simferopolskaya street 38. At the Saki stop, which is located 50 meters from the temple, buses of routes No. 1660 and 1661 drop off and receive passengers.

Aquapark "Banana Republic"

Aquapark "Banana Republic"

The water park "Banana Republic" is the best entertainment facility in the western Crimea. On its territory there is everything you need for a fun pastime: slides, entertainment venues, a cafe and a restaurant,

All attractions of the institution are divided into children's and adults. Children under 130 cm tall are not allowed to enter adult slides.

The adult entertainment area features a 50 meter long and 25 meter wide swimming pool with cocktail bars and hydromassage facilities. “Pipes” of open and closed slides are connected to the pool, which lower people from a height of up to 23 meters.

Slides designed as fabulous cities and characters. The newest attraction "Jungle" allows kids with the help of water blasters to repel pirate attacks and feel like real heroes.

Also for family entertainment, several new slides were built in 2015. The largest of them has a length of 205 meters. They can be ridden by children from 130 cm tall, unaccompanied adults and in companies of 2-4 people on special rafts.

All devices and installations of the water park meet international safety standards. Professional instructors are constantly near them and ensure the preservation of the life and health of all guests of the "Banana Republic".

Meals for guests in the water park are provided by the Nine Weekends restaurant. It offers those who wish to taste the first and second courses, salads, desserts, freshly squeezed juices and soft drinks. The average cost of one meal in an institution is 800 rubles.

The price of the entrance ticket to the water park is:

  • For adults - 1800 rubles.
  • For children from 90 to 130 cm tall - 1200 rubles.
  • For children up to 90 cm tall - free of charge.

"Banana Republic" is open from 9 am to 7 pm every day. From railway station Evpatoria and the sanatorium "Northern Lights" in Saki, a free bus runs to the institution. The Pribrezhnoye train station is located 100 meters from the park. Parking a car in the parking lot of the institution costs 100 rubles a day, a bus - 200 rubles a day.