The word "Foros" has two meanings: with emphasis on first syllable - means tribute, taxes, market. With emphasis on the second syllable - gust, wind.

The settlement arose on the place of the Genoese colony, which existed even in the thirteenth century. The colony gathered tribute from all the southern coast, it was ruled by the Genoese.

Now in the village of Foros there is a sanatorium complex "Foros" - the former health resort of the CPSU. On campus there is a magnificent park, a monument of landscape architecture, with many representatives of the subtropical flora, and that is more than one hundred years.

Above the village of Foros there are new and old roads Yalta - Sevastopol. The old road goes sharply to the mountains to the pass "Baydarskie Gate".

"Baydarskie Gate" - is an arch as a stone porch of an antique style, set on the top of Baydarskiy saddle with height 527 m above sea level and built in 1848 to mark the opening of the road.

The road through the forest leads to Baydarskaya valley and the village Orlinoe. On the old road, two kilometers to the south of the pass, Foros Church of the Resurrection is located.

It was built in the Byzantine style on a steep cliff in 1892, at the cost of tea-merchant-industrialist A.G Kuznetsov.

Mosaic decoration of the church was made by the master of the famous studio of Anthony Salvatti from Vincenzo (Italy), and the interior was painted by the famous Russian artists K.E.Makovsky, A.I. Korzukhin. Church of the Resurrection was erected in memory of the "miraculous" rescue of Czar Alexander III and his family during a train derailment in October 1888.

New road Yalta - Sevastopol was built in Soviet times and is close to the cottage "Gorbachev", the Cape Sarich, Sudak, along the seashore to Balaklava, Sevastopol. Towards Yalta the road passes through a tunnel piercing the sawtooth ridge of the mountain Dragon or Ai-Urey.

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