Simon Roberts - Phoenix Rising, Yalta, Ukraine, 2002

Yalta is a resort city on the southern coast of the Crimean Peninsula in Ukraine, surrounded by the Black Sea. In Communist times it was the playground of the Politburo, with the party faithful rewarded with a week in a sanatorium housed in a former Imperial palace. In its 1960s hey-day, the local population of 100,000 would swell to over a million in the summer as Soviets flocked to its spas and beaches. After years of neglect during the collapse of the Soviet Union, at the turn of the millennium it once again became a popular holiday resort for ordinary Ukrainians. Thanks to the Yalta Conference in 1945, the city fashioned an image as a symbolic place of peace and compromise (Roosevelt, Ch...View all