Simferopol Sights

  1. Crimean Ethnographic Museum

    The memorable thing about the modest Crimean Ethnographic Museum is its first room. It boasts a 3-D relief map of Crimea, populated with nearly 50 colourful small statues representing the peninsula's different peoples throughout history.

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  2. Kebi-Djami Mosque

    Remnants do survive of earlier civilisations on the same site as Simferopol. The most interesting is the restored 16th-century Kebi-Djami mosque, which dates back to the Crimean Tatar town of Ak-Mechet (White Mosque).

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  3. Neopolis

    There's little sense of history about the much-touted Neopolis. However, it offers a good view of Simferopol in all its Soviet-constructivist glory, should you be tempted by such things. Archaeological excavations of a late Scythian city (300 BC-AD 300) seem to have been abandoned. Nowadays, the 20-hectare hilltop site is where locals take their goats or cattle to graze, or teenagers meet for illicit drinking.

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  4. Three Saints Church

    The five-domed Three Saints Church is near the Cerimean Ethnographic Museum.

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