Gorky Embankment is the main promenade of Yevpatoria, which stretches for 1.3 kilometers from Duvanovskaya Street to the Sanatorium Golden Coast. Several buildings of the 19th century have been preserved here. Beautiful colonnades are installed along the embankment in different places, and a beautiful sandy beach stretches along the sea.
Gorky Embankment was formed at the beginning of the 20th century, when the mayor of the city Semyon Ezrovich Duvan designed and created new quarters near the Old town of Yevpatoria. The lands in these quarters were sold for the construction of hotels, sanatoriums and villas. By 1915, this part of Yevpatoria was recognized as a resort of All-Russian significance. The therapeutic mud of Saki Lake and Moynaki Lake became famous throughout the empire in the 19th century, but there was no comfortable infrastructure for recreation and treatment in Yevpatoria.
After the construction of sanatoriums began in New Yevpatoria, Semyon Duvan laid the embankment, which was then called the New Embankment. Not far from the port of Yevpatoria, Duvanovskaya Street connects to the embankment of Yevpatoria, where the most famous Art Nouveau buildings of Yevpatoria are located. The Local History Museum of Yevpatoria is also located here.
During the era of Greek colonization, there were two main colonies in Crimea: Chersonesos in modern Sevastopol and Bosporus in modern Kerch. In the area of Yevpatoria there was a Kerkinitida colony. The main occupation of its inhabitants was farming, so there are no powerful fortifications or ruins of palaces.
The dwellings of the inhabitants of Kerkinitida were very modest. Their ruins are located on the territory of the Sanatorium of the Ministry of Defense, but it is impossible to see it. On the Gorky Embankment near the port of Yevpatoria there is a small section of the wall of the ancient Kerkinitida. Another section of the ancient wall can be seen under the glass dome near the Yevpatoria Museum of Local History.
The busiest part of Gorky Embankment is located near the pedestrian Frunze Street. Here, at the exit to a wide sandy beach, there is a sculpture of Resting Hercules, which has become a symbol of Yevpatoria. During excavations in ancient Kerkinitida, several images of Hercules were found.
300 meters to the west of the Hercules sculpture is a beautiful mansion. Previously, it was the villa of the merchant Terentyev, and now it is one of the buildings of the sanatorium Golden Coast. The recognizable silhouette of this Palladian-style mansion is also one of the symbols of Yevpatoria.
