Also its largest city (pop. 510,000), at Crimea’s southwestern tip, it was founded as a Russian imperial navy base in 1783 and is a pleasant city home to a number of interesting museums (many of them about military history); handsome neoclassical architecture and 19th-century mansions; the ruins of the ancient Greek city of Khersones, a UNESCO World Heritage Site founded in 422 BCE; and a lively waterfront nightlife district called Artbukhta (Artillery Quay).
Read more about this and more in my post Ukraine Tourism and the War - Plus a Look at its Aweome Allures for Visitors.
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