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National Reserve "Chersonese."

the time allotted for inspection tourist facility  3:00


Getting there  
- Directly to the reserve you will take bus number 22, which departs from a stop, "the 5th kilometer of highway Balaklava."  
- Minibuses, following in the area Musketeers bay will take you to the square of the 50th anniversary of the USSR (stop "Central Department" or "Cinema Russia").   Then - see "Walk."  
- From the area of ​​the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Union go on foot about 1.5 mile down the street Eroshenko.  
- If you are traveling by car, the car can be left near the main entrance to the reserve.  

In the second half of V century BC.   Oe.   in the southwestern part of Crimean peninsula came from Pontian Greek city Heraclea bylosnovan city, known as  Chersonese.   On the territory of modern Sevastopol are the ruins - the remains of defensive walls, dwellings, public buildings and farmsteads.   For more than 150 years, from 1827, in the settlement are carried out archaeological excavations going on today.  

National Reserve "Chersonese"  
st.   Ancient 1  
Tel.   +38 0692 241,301.241332 (offices)  
Opening hours: from 9.00 to 17.00,  
summer - from 8.00 to 20.00  
Access to the reserve: 7.00.


Start a tour of the ancient city with a tour of the best exhibitions  of ancient and medieval Chersonesos museum  departments.  



From 1850 to 1921 in the settlement was  an Orthodox monastery.   The two-storey building of the former refectory of the monastery, built in 1914-1916, respectively, are the antique department and the museum.  

Situated near the medieval department - the entrance to the museum to climb the stone stairs. Once in the building, built in 1860-1863, respectively, placed the Bratsk-rectory building.   Now there are a large and small  exhibition halls  devoted to  the medieval history of Chersonese, archive, library and administrative offices.  

After inspecting the exhibition of ancient and medieval parts of the museum, return to the main entrance to the reserve.   To the east of it are  the city gates,  through which once could get into the port area Chersonese.   They regularly serve in the second half of IV century BC.   Oe.   to I-II centuries of.   Oe.   - Until then, had not yet been equipped with  the new entry.  

Closed gate lifting bars (cataract) and two double doors that swung open into the city and locked from the inside with a thick wooden beam.   Traces of them are preserved in the walls.




To the west of the main entrance is proud Chersonesos Reserve -  antique theater,  the only one so far known in the northern Black Sea coast.   Theatre, arranged on a hillside, was designed for two thousand spectators, and was once a center of social and cultural life of the Chersonese.   Today it once again boils theatrical life - Sebastopol theater groups provide plays based on works by ancient authors (Euripides, Sophocles) and not only them.  

Theatrical performances usually lasted from morning to night and sometimes for several days in a row.   Festively dressed audience to come to the theater, taking with her soft pillows, bedding, not to sit on the cold, hard stone benches, as well as food and drink zapasshis ..


Theatre of the broad avenue leading to  the Cathedral of St. Vladimir,  erected by architects of FI and DI Chagin Grimm in the second half of XIX century.   Construction of the temple lasted for about 30 years, he was consecrated in 1891.  

A proposal to build a temple on the site of the baptism of St. Prince Vladimir was first put forward by Admiral A. Greig back in 1825 in a memorandum to Emperor Alexander I.   Soon the whole of Russia was announced to raise funds for its construction.   However, in 1843, Emperor Nicholas I ordered the church of St. Vladimir's not build in the Chersonese, and the center of Sevastopol, on the higher ground.   After the Crimean War it was decided to divide the collected donations to build two of Vladimir and the church.   One - the central town hill - became the burial place, where they found their eternal peace leaders of the heroic defense of Sevastopol. Another - the ruins of Chersonese - was timed to 900 anniversary of the Baptism of Russia and laid at the spot where the ancient city area as far back as 1827 have been excavated Christian churches.


26-meter high building of the cathedral is a  masterpiece of architectural art.   The walls of the church and the iconostasis decorated with  icons  and other paintings by famous Russian painters - V. Neff, IA Maikov.   The floor was decorated with colorful  mosaics,  and located in the heart of the most important shrine - the  ruins of  the medieval church, which according to legend, Prince Vladimir was baptized.   In autumn 1924 the cathedral was closed.  

During the Great Patriotic War artillery shell damaged a large gilt cross and side of the temple dome.   Restoration of the temple was carried out as slowly and with difficulty, as when a building.   In 2001, nearly rebuilt church was consecrated again.  

From the church go down the avenue to the sea.   It stands on a cliff famous  alarm bell.   Not directly related to the ancient history of the Chersonese, he is nevertheless a symbol of the settlement.  



The bell was cast in 1778 in Taganrog from captured cannon, brought by the Russian army from the battlefield after the Russian-Turkish war.   During the Eastern (Crimean) War, Bell suffered a similar fate - he was already a trophy for the French.   According to legend, Taganrog bell hung for some time at the Belfry of the famous Notre Dame Cathedral ...  

In 1913, in honor of the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty, the bell was returned to Russia and brought to Sevastopol "as a sign of alliance and friendship with the great sovereign."  

In Soviet times, the bell belonged to the Sevastopol Hydrographic Service.   From 1940 until the early 1960s, he served as the  lighthouse  - in conditions of poor visibility proclaimed his ringing of the proximity of the coast.   When a civil trial began mass-equipped radar, "Lighthouse duties" with Chersonesus kolokolabyli removed.  

Walk along the beach to the west and you'll see another symbol of Chersonese - the  ruins of the Basilica of 1935  (so named for the year of its discovery).   It was built in the late VI - VII centuries early.  

In the first centuries AD, this place was a small temple with a five-sided apse.   Presumably, it was a synagogue of the Jewish community, later converted into a Christian church in the V century it was destroyed.


The entrance is kept on the east side, through a narrow  gallery  - ekzonarteks, followed by a wide door through which fell into the vestibule to the unbaptized and penitents -  narthex  with a mosaic floor.   Scientists were able to establish their former places few columns and restore the Basilica of the narthex of the wall with a door, marble.   After going through it, you'll be in the main  nave, which ends on the east side of the large semicircular apse that housed the altar and the throne.  

The temple complex is located close to the basilica in 1935, is the code name  "basilica basilica." It really looks like a kind of "doll" of the two temples - the larger and smaller, as if "inserted" into one another.  

After the tour you can relax in one of three wild  beaches  in the territory of the reserve.   The first one (sand) is located on the shores of  Quarantine Bay,  on the right of the entrance to the reserve.   The beach is suitable for people with young children - there is almost never a strong emotion.   Second, covered with large pebbles, is located under a cliff at Chersonesus bell.   The third beach - rocky - begins near the basilica in 1935.  

In the 1970s, in the temple complex were carried out restoration work on the consolidation of the beautiful mosaic floors, which, together with the remnants of columns and a marble altar in the sanctuary of producing a particularly vivid impression on all who have been in Kherson.  


Art gallery "Green Pyramid"  
st.   Ancient, 29  
Tel.   +38 0692 240054  
On the territory of a cafe.

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