Resurrection Church
Resurrection Church towering over Foros was constructed in 1892 on inaccessible cliff, Red Rock. It is an architectural monument of the 19th century.
Resurrection Church towering over Foros was constructed in 1892 on inaccessible cliff, Red Rock. This architectural monument of the 19th century is 400 metres above the sea level.
The church was erected as a donation from Kuznetsov, Foros owner and tea-grower. Academician Chagin designed this church to commemorate miraculous escape of Emperor Alexander III and his family in a train crash at Borky station of Kursk-Kharkiv railway on October 17, 1888. Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Fedorovna visited the church to commemorate 10th anniversary of Alexander III rescue.
Just beyond the church an old highway of the South Coast of the Crimea runs to Sevastopol through the Baidar Gate that offers the best view of the church as if flying above the Southern Coast.
Baidar Gate
Baidar Gate is a peculiar stone entrance to the South Coast of the Crimea, an architectural monument of the 19th century.
A peculiar stone gate to the South Coast of the Crimea, an architectural monument of the 19th century, are situated on the Baidar Pass (507 m high) at the border of Sevastopol Zone and the Greater Yalta. The Baidar Gate was built on the Pass in the form of an ornamental antique arch in commemoration of the end of construction of a new Sevastopol-Yalta road under design of the architect K. Ashliman.
Currently the new road to Sevastopol runs along the Black Sea coast and the Pass has lost its significance. And during the first days of the Great Patriotic War the main aim of Nazi landing troops “Kastropol” was to blow up the Baidar Gate, the only way to Sevastopol at that time. Detention of the guide-betrayer ruined the plans of the landing troops.
