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Lenin Embankment: Chekhov and Nekrasov used to walk here

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One cannot imagine Yalta without its main street – Lenin Embankment. It stretches for a mile and a half along the sea coast. At the dawn of the construction of Yalta a usual coastline was in the place of the embankment. But with the growth of the city the coastal zone developed: the shore was raised and strengthened with stone blocks. The final appearance of the embankment and its name appeared in 1961 when a lower tier was added to it, and the surface was paved with granite.

There are several landmark places of interest at Lenin Embankment. One of them - the Roffe Baths, attached to the embankment in 1897, being a part of the hotel complex "France". The authorities wanted to demolish the Roffe Baths in 1980, but on the initiative of the townspeople they were reconstructed. There is also a summer theater and concert hall "Yubileiny", built on the site of the former summer stage. Hotel Tavrida is in the central part of the embankment. The building, dating from 1875, is a real decoration and a historical monument that has seen many famous people: Nekrasov and Bunin, Mayakovsky and Chekhov lived in this luxurious hotel with a view of the Black Sea. From the hotel Tavrida up to the Darsan Hill there is the Small cable car also known as "Yalta-Gorka". Its length is 600 meters, and the difference in altitude is 120 meters! For 15 minutes of climbing it one can see the whole panorama of Yalta, the embankment and the water area of the port.

Lenin Embankment: Chekhov and Nekrasov used to walk here

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