A blogger Ilya Varlamov.
With Koktebel I have a special story. As a child I vacationed here almost every summer. Lived in the private sector, and in sanatoriums. Then Koktebel was still known as Planersky and was good by the standards of the Crimea resort. Then the shovel broke, and in Koktebel came merchants. The Germans built a new building for a local nursing home red roofs, the beaches started to close and paid to do, there was a theme. I watched how the Koktebel.
It seemed to me that I know every stone and every tree! With my eyes closed can walk from the market centre to the waterfront, I know all the trails on the Kara-Dag. Last time I stayed in Koktebel in 2010, and even then his condition was very alarming. Today Koktebel I didn’t recognize. At all. If not for the silhouette of Kara-Dag in the background, I never would have believed that he was in the Koktebel from his childhood. You know, it’s just kind of a disaster. It’s very disappointing. Not even hurt, rather shock and disbelief. How could this happen? It’s like to meet many years later, his first school love, the charming young beauty, and to see that it turned into a oily rough rowdy.
01. This is one of the rivers flowing into the sea. It shows the current status of Koktebel. The channel fully overgrown and turned into bogs. On the right is debris on the left are the pubs.
02. The waterfront in the form in which it is remembered by many tourists, is no more.
03. Embankment throughout today completely lost. Now here is a conglomeration of squatter, numerous shops, tents, pubs, some ugly sculptures and other stuff. Walk along the promenade unpleasant and disgusting.
04. Everywhere sell booze and actively encouraged to fill in yourself Koktebel cognac or, at worst, sweet Crimean wine.
05. Today to walk around the Koktebel became impossible. From the abundance of visual garbage, the screams tour touts, pop music from the 90s a splitting headache. Want to run away from here. But to escape is also difficult. Need to get out of the maze.
06. This is the waterfront.
07. Before Koktebel was the usual Soviet resort. White, bright, sun-filled. Koktebel has always been considered a cultural capital of Crimea. It was Maximilian Voloshin, and his eyes stayed numerous poets, writers and other artists, at his house at different times lived Alexei Tolstoy, Tsvetaeva, Bulgakov, Gumilev and many other famous cultural figures. So it still remember.
08. Today. This is also the waterfront! Yes, in some places it is completely blocked. From the former charm has not disappeared.
09. Traders, hotels, pubs
