From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

Gurzuf

Field	Value
official_name	Gurzuf
native_name	Гурзуф
settlement_type	Urban-type settlement
image_flag	FLA Hursuf, Krym, Ukraine.svg
image_shield	Coat of arms Gurzuf, Crimea, Ukraine.PNG
pushpin_map	Ukraine#Ukraine Crimea
pushpin_map_caption	Location of Hurzuf within Crimea##Location of Hurzuf within the Black Sea
coordinates
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_type1	Republic
subdivision_name1	Crimea
subdivision_type2	Municipality
subdivision_name2	Yalta Municipality
elevation_m	30
population_total	8933
population_as_of	2014
timezone	MSK
utc_offset	+3
postal_code_type	Postal code
postal_code	98640 — 98643
area_code	+7-654
blank_name	Former names
blank_info	Gorsovium, Gorzubiti
blank1_name	Climate
blank1_info	Cfa

Gurzuf or Hurzuf (, , , ) is a resort town (urban-type settlement) in Yalta Municipality of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine but incorporated by Russia as the Republic of Crimea. Population:

It is located on the northern coast of the Black Sea. It is the site of a 6th-century fortress built by Justinian I and called by Procopius the fortress of the Gorzoubitai. The fortress was later restored by the Genoese who called the place Garzuni, Grasni, and Gorzanium, and appointed it the seat of a chief magistrate. It was a former Crimean Tatar village, now a part of Greater Yalta. Alexander Pushkin visited Gurzuf in 1820 and ballet master Marius Petipa died here. The International Children's Center Artek (formerly the All-Union Young Pioneer camp Artek) is situated just behind Mount Ayu-Dag (Bear Mountain). The World Organization of the Scout Movement's Eurasian Region is headquartered in the town.

Between Gurzuf and Mount Ayu-Dag is Cape Suuksu. At the top of the Cape is a tower, a medieval cemetery, and a small monument to Pushkin.

Name

The origin of the name is not reliably established. Some researchers believe that it comes from the Latin Ursus "bear", as the "Bear Mountain" (Ayu-Dag) is located near the town. Others believe that the name Horzuv, Horzuvaty has Taurian or Gotho-Alan roots and decipher it as "gor dzakkh" - mountain valley, valley among the mountains. Gradually, the place name "Gorzuvyti" was transformed into Kursaity, Gorzovium, Yurzuf, and Gurzuf.

Demographics

As of the 2001 Ukrainian census, Gurzuf had a population of 8,676 inhabitants. It is estimated that ethnic Russians constitute a slim majority, followed by a large, predominantly Russophone Ukrainian population, which accounts for a bit more than one third of the population. Smaller minorities are Crimean Tatars, Belarusians, Poles and Moldovans. Russian, which serves as an interethnic language, is the most spoken tongue in the town, while a significant minority speaks Ukrainian as their primary language. The exact linguistic composition was as follows:

People from Gurzuf

Cengiz Dağcı (1919–2011), Crimean Tatar novelist and poet
Mansur Mazinov (1906–1983), Soviet air force officer, the first Crimean Tatar pilot
Natalia Popovych (born 1968), Ukrainian politician

Gallery

View of Gurzuf, Ukraine.JPG|View of Gurzuf Goddess of Night, Gurzuf, Crimea.jpg|"Goddess of Night" fountain in Gurzuf Gurzuf, Sculpture 2, Crimea.jpg|Statue Gurzuf, Sculpture 3, Crimea, Inside the empty mass.jpg|Statue Korovin pier in Gurzuf.JPG|"Pier in Gurzuf" by Konstantin Korovin, 1914 Гурзуф осенью, Крым.jpg|Gurzuf in the fall

References

John Buchan Telfer. ''The Crimea and Transcaucasia''. Forgotten Books, 2012. p.68.
"История Гурзуфа".
"Языковый состав населения".
"Рідні мови в об'єднаних територіальних громадах України".

Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

gurzuf urban-type-settlements-in-crimea populated-coastal-places-in-ukraine seaside-resorts-in-ukraine populated-coastal-places-in-russia seaside-resorts-in-russia simferopolsky-uyezd yalta-municipality rural-settlements-in-crimea

Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about Gurzuf — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report