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On Monday, August 2, Sevastopol journalists on the Crimean Arrow catamaran made a presentation flight to Yalta. The revival of the Yalta - Sevastopol - Evpatoria - Odessa route became possible thanks to the London SkyTravel ". More than ten years ago," Comets "traditionally went on this route. Then, by order of the USSR Ministry of Fleet in 1990in Norway, two catamarans were built - "Crimean Arrow" and "Blue Arrow". But with the collapse of the country, the catamarans are gonework on Mediterranean lines or carried "shuttles" from Crimea to Turkey and back. Then, as the permanent recallsthe captain of the "Crimean Arrow" Albert Kulikov, at the end of the 90s went to work in the Red Sea for two years. The ship wasconverted into a floating casino, since it was impossible to open gambling establishments on the territory of Israel. In the bottomthe salon was equipped with roulettes and gambling tables, and in the upper there was a small restaurant. And worked prettysuccessfully. A. Kulikov, who has been at the captain's wheel for 35 years, says he is glad to return to work on the old route:"Crimea is unique and very beautiful. We worked in 2002 in Croatia, too beautiful places but our Southshoretheir beauty is not inferior to them at all. I think, over time, smart leaders will realize that Crimea is a gold mine. "
The repaired ship is ready to provide its 300 passengers with very comfortable conditions. You can choose a seat in business or economy class, watch a video on the way, spend time in a bar or dine in a restaurant."We are now resuming the line," says Konstantin Lichikaki, commercial director of London Sky Travel.Unfortunately, it did not work for a long time, and everything has to be rolled up in a new way. The task is difficult, but doable. This is already the 28thflight, there is an increase in passenger traffic, in August there will be the most intense traffic. Last flight had 90 passengers out of 15countries: from Kazakhstan to the Netherlands. "
"Crimean arrow". The length of the vessel is 43 m, the width is 10 m. The optimal speed is 30 knots (55 km / h).
From Odessa the ship leaves by on Mondays at 11:00 and at 17:30 arrives in Sevastopol, at 20:00 arrives in Yalta.
On Thursdays and Saturdays, the ship runs onroute Odessa - Varna.
Tickets for the catamaran can be purchased from the Kandahar travel agency.
"Sevastopol newspaper", 05.08.2004
On June 13, on its first Odessa-Varna flight this year, the Crimean Strela catamaran, assigned to the Yalta port. This regular line was opened exactly a year ago, its organizers - Odessa Travel Company"London SkyeTravel ", Yalta and Odessa ports. This year," Crimean Arrow "will make 28 calls to Varna, which is twicemore than in the previous year. "Crimean Arrow" works in two directions: Odessa - Varna and Odessa - Sevastopol -Yalta. Flights to each of the directions are carried out weekly. In total, 5300 were transported during the last season.passengers. There were 14 flights to Varna and to Yalta. The ship delivers passengers to Yalta from Odessa in 7.5 hours, beforeVarna - for 9. But especially the "sea train" liked the tourists going to Bulgaria on vacation. "It isfirst of all, about the Russians, for whom it is expensive to get to the Bulgarian resorts by plane, and by bus - it is long and tiring. Herewe helped them find optimal route- by train from Moscow to Odessa, from Odessa by catamaran to Varna, -says the deputy general director of London Sky Travel Konstantin Lichikaki. - Average loadthe vessel last year numbered 200 people per voyage. This season, demand has grown, already due to Ukrainian tourists. "
"Ports of Ukraine", No. 03 (53), 2005
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Crimea-Odessa: catamaran "Crimean arrow"
Yalta 9:00 - Sevastopol 10:50 ... 11:00 - Evpatoria 12:30 ... 12:50 - Odessa 17:30
Ticket from Sevastopol - 139 hryvnia ($ 27.50), from Yalta - 171 hryvnia ($ 34)
From Yalta - on Thursdays and Sundays, from Odessa - on Tuesdays and Fridays.
In 2006, there is no more information about the catamaran flights from Odessa to Crimea.
Almost simultaneously with the beginning of summer, the cruise season started in Odessa. On Monday catamaran "Crimean Arrow" took the first tourists on board to South coast Varna to Bulgaria. The Crimean Arrow will fly on the wavestwice a week throughout the summer. The cheapest catamaran ticket costs $ 95. Also, howwe were told by the press service of the ship owner's company that from June 13 a new black sea route"Crimeanarrows "Odessa - Constanta. According to the commercial director of London Sky Travel" Konstantin Lichikaki, on Constantathey decided to send the catamaran after Romania became a member of the European Union. In addition, Odessa tour operators hopethat this summer a record number of tourists from Europe will come to our city, because for citizens of the EU countries there is avisa-free regime. One more piece of news - from June 15, the "Crimean Arrow" is expected to moor for the first time to the Snake Island. Hownoted the head of the seaport Nikolay Makovetsky, such a tour will take approximately four hours.
"Segodnya.UA", 10.06.2008
PS: Since 2009, "Crimean Arrow" has not left the territory Yalta port... There is also the same type "Blue Arrow", decommissioned back in 2006 - its spare parts have supported the performance of the "Crimean Arrow" in recent years.
Evgeny Likhachev - the last head of the Yalta Marine commercial port... He devoted all his life to his native harbor and went from a simple sailor to the head of the port. We noticed a smart guy when he was still a student: Eugene studied in Yalta as a navigator and worked part-time in the port. He was appointed to the position of a dispatcher when, having already one diploma, he entered the correspondence department at the Odessa Institute of the Marine Fleet.
Soon Evgeniy "grew" to the Deputy Chief of the Port Fleet for Operation, and then became the Deputy Chief of the Port. Evgeny Vasilyevich became the head of the Yalta harbor in 1986.
Golden age of the port
The "golden" time came when Yevgeny Likhachev was deputy chief. Passenger ships then transported up to 6 million passengers per year.
In the 70s - 80s of the last century, Yalta harbor received brand new motor ships of project 1430 "Alexander Green" and "Samantha Smith" of project 10110. In the early 90s, the newest Norwegian catamarans - "Crimean Arrow" and "Blue Arrow" arrived. ...
First, I counted the economy, and then I chose the most modern and comfortable models of catamarans for Yalta, - Likhachev said then.
Vessels of this class were not designed or built in the USSR, so they were the pride of port workers.
Evgeny Vasilyevich achieved strict adherence to the timetable for the movement of his ships. The arrangement of the fleet was carried out in such a way that each passenger ship was used cost-effectively and as efficiently as possible.
It was Likhachev who developed the route Odessa - Evpatoria - Sevastopol - Yalta - Alushta - Sudak - Feodosia - Sochi. This way was done by the ships "Kometa" on hydrofoils. Those who have ridden this route at least once remember that everything was built exactly and worked like a clock. Black Sea shipping company, which included the Yalta commercial port, was at the zenith of its power.
Evgeny Vasilyevich made an agreement with a tour bureau, and created a system in which anyone could easily and easily purchase a ticket to the "Comet", - recalls the veteran of the Yalta port Rem Kalitin. - Under him, the port in 1980-1990 always exceeded the plan. The state received additional profit - more than 800 thousand (even those rubles) per year.
Under Likhachev, simultaneously with the passenger fleet, the cargo area of the Yalta commercial seaport was developed - 3 vessels of the "river-sea" type were hastily working there. In 1985, the last crane was transported to the cargo area. Thus, the spa sector and industry were completely separated, to the delight of local residents and tourists.
Likhachev said that the future sea transport in the Black Sea - for high-speed vessels: they can successfully compete with aviation, satisfy demand business people on trips around the region.
Anti-crisis chief
Likhachev lived with the port all his modern history- from post-war reconstruction, to the collapse of the USSR, - the veteran shares with "Komsomolskaya Pravda" seaport Rem Kalitin. Evgeny Vasilyevich also found the famous motor ships-birds - such small ships that the port employees built themselves. On these "birds" Soviet people in the 50s and 60s got acquainted with the Crimea.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Yevgeny Likhachev kept the port afloat until his retirement in 1998.
Cargo ships began to sail abroad, passenger catamarans - in international flights... One can only imagine how psychologically difficult it was for a person who successfully ran one of the strongest enterprises in the Union. After 1991, in the new realities, completely different issues had to be resolved - to fight for the port to survive. Likhachev saved the port clinic and other social facilities from people who wanted to take away their social infrastructure from the sailors. But Evgeny Vasilyevich coped with it. Port veterans say that it was only thanks to him that the enterprise survived.
For a year now, Evgeny Vasilyevich has not been with us. But his work lives on. Recently, a meeting was held in Kerch, at which the President and the Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation decided to open the Yalta-Sochi sea traffic next year.
Help "KP"
(1932 -2015) started working in the Yalta commercial seaport in 1950. From 1986 to 1998 - Head of the Yalta Commercial Sea Port. Honored Worker of Transport, awarded with government awards, many certificates of honor of the USSR Ministry of the Navy.
The dream of many is a tent on the shore, the lapping of waves, a small fire and songs with a guitar. For those who prefer such a vacation, the Arabat Spit in Crimea is a wonderful place. Here you are greeted by a steppe landscape, a warm sea, salty lakes with healing mud and blooming herbs. And no noisy discos and other "benefits of civilization"!
Where is the Arabat Spit?
V geographically This is a spit stretching for 110 km from the southeastern coast of the Crimean peninsula to the mainland. It separates the Sea of Azov from, washed by the waters.
Spit on the map of Crimea
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Geography and history of the area
Scientists have established that the Arabat arrow is a young formation in geological terms. She began to rise above the water as a result of the strong shallowing of the Sivash and in the XI-XII centuries. On the maps, however, they began to depict it only in the middle of the 17th century.
The appearance of a barrier separating the bay and the sea surface (they are now connected by a narrow strait) led to a sharp increase in the salinity of the Sivash - the salts have nowhere to go. This explains his nickname The Rotten Sea (not every living creature will agree to live in brine!) And the great popularity of local mud among balneologists and cosmetologists.
On the spit itself there are also several small salty brines with healing brine, which promotes recovery. Back in the Middle Ages, salt was being actively mined here, and the Ukrainian Chumaks went to get it.
Young geographic feature, however, has already managed to acquire a rich one. There is some evidence that rulers were also interested in these places, striving to protect their shores (although there was no spit at that time, we are talking about the area at its Crimean base). It is also assumed that there was a Genoese bastion, then conquered by the Turks.
Here is evidence of the presence of the latter, and very significant -. It is mentioned in the middle of the 17th century; it is assumed that its task was to prevent the penetration of Russians into the Black Sea region, as well as the Zaporozhye Cossacks, who willingly used the scythe as a "transshipment base" during raids on the shores of the Crimean Khanate and Turkey itself. The last problem was solved poorly: in the documents there are repeated references to the presence of these dangerous warriors and robbers here, with which they frightened disobedient children as Tatar mothers. It is assumed that it was built on the site of the Genoese fortification captured during the Turkish conquest of Crimea.
However, during the period, the fortress showed itself from its best side - its garrison prevented the landing of the Anglo-French landing and opposed the efforts of the allied fleet. All this is made possible by the presence of a good battery. The legendary passage of the Red Army across the Sivash in November 1920 also began with the Arabat Spit. This operation also led to a complete cessation of the White movement in the European part of the former Russian Empire.
Rest on the Arabat Spit
For those who love Crimea, the Arabat Spit is almost a must-see place. Its width ranges from 300 m to almost 8 km, and all Azov coast is a continuous beach of coarse sand and. The landscape is steppe, you should not count on natural shelters from the sun. It is also advisable to take firewood with you - only a large tamarisk grows around.
When traveling by car, it is better to choose an undemanding brand - the road here leaves much to be desired (for the ribbed surface it was nicknamed "comb"). She has excuses - the sandy soil is not very suitable for capital construction. You should not expect rich living conditions either. Most tourists settle themselves in tents, 
you can count on camping or private sector, but with modest conditions.
People come here for a pleasant swim in clean water and also fishing - goby is well caught, there is also mullet, pelengas and some other species. Some travelers have adapted well to catching shrimp. Another "bait" is the mud of salt lakes and Sivash. Usually they are recommended for diseases of the musculoskeletal system and as a cosmetic.
Many connoisseurs are also attracted by biological diversity. Although the soil of the frog is poor, there are many interesting plants. A nature reserve has been operating in its southern part since 1974. Reviews from regulars claim that the best time there - May, occurring in whole fields. But you need to take into account that there are a lot of evil mosquitoes here and stock up on a good repellent just in case.
You won't be able to inspect the inside of the fortress now. She recalls her youth - she was again occupied by the military. But looking from the side and taking pictures is not prohibited. In recent years, in the region of Arabatki, as the spit is also called, the construction of tourist infrastructure has been more active. Nevertheless, its guests need to be prepared for the fact that to visit the store they will have to overcome several kilometers.
Lovers of the seashore often deprive themselves of the opportunity to appreciate how beautiful steppe Crimea... The Arabat arrow allows them to do this without giving up their main business - sea bathing. Here the steppe and the sea go hand in hand. In conclusion, we suggest short video review of this natural attraction, enjoy your viewing!
