The origin of the name of this resort village in the east of the Crimean peninsula has two versions. According to one of them, translated from the Crimean Tatar, Koktebel means "the edge of blue hills", and the second version of the translation is "a gray horse with an asterisk in its forehead."
One way or another, for many decades, bohemians have chosen local beaches for recreation, and poets and artists, actors and writers often walked along the Koktebel embankment.
Step into the new millennium
In the summer of 2013, the Koktebel embankment was inaugurated after a global reconstruction. It stretches along the sea coast, on which a rescue service works during the swimming season, and the beach area is maximally landscaped for a comfortable stay and has the Crimean Blue Flag of the beach service.
On the embankment, cultural events of an all-Russian scale are regularly held:
"/> The Street Theater Festival traditionally offers performances by amateur acting groups, whose repertoire includes classical plays, sketches, and short sketches on themes of modern life.
Swim with dolphins
Since 2007, a dolphinarium has been operating on the Koktebel embankment, which is a complex with open stands in summer and a domed pool in winter. Visitors are expected here from May to October, and everyone who strolls along the seaside will drop by the show at least once. It takes place three times a day, a detailed schedule and prices are available on the website www.koktebel-delfin.com.
Voloshin's legacy
The Koktebel embankment stretches along the entire Black Sea bay parallel to Morskaya Street, the most famous attraction of which is the House-Museum of Maximilian Voloshin. The poet and artist played an important role in the development of Koktebel, where he settled after the revolution in a house once built by his mother.
Alexey Tolstoy and Marina Tsvetaeva, Nikolai Gumilyov and Mikhail Bulgakov often visited Voloshin on the Koktebel embankment. He turned his house into a free House of Writers 'Creativity and bequeathed it to the Writers' Union after his death.
Echoes of the past war
Events dedicated to Victory Day are held on the Koktebel embankment at the monument to the participants of the Kerch-Feodosia landing, which landed here in December 1941.
