Communication, communications, mass-media

Post offices are in Bakhchisarai, settlements and in large villages (in branch villages can work in a free mode, is better come to opening as the lunch break can be infinite). Before to send cards or letters in souvenir envelopes, necessarily check up in post office, whether there corresponds mark of range of the correspondence. In Ukraine stamps without instructions of monetary cost are accepted, it is replaced with an alphabetic index. Necessarily specify a return address (the constant residence or a stay place in Crimea). For the international parcels and parcels post there are customs restrictions.

In public telephone booths of Bakhchisarai and large camp sites have automatic machines with a digital international telecommunication. The computer centres with the Internet work in Bakhchisarai, Kujbyshevo and on large camp sites and bases of rest.

Mobile phones work in standards GSM 900, GSM 1800, NMT. Confident communication – basically on mountain plateaus. In valleys and at coast under communication breakages can not be.

Rather well from the Ukrainian operators in region Kievstar works only. Roaming works not bad, but manages expensively.

the TV in mountain villages is accepted badly, but now many put satellite "=рЁхыъш" also accept the Russian channels. On usual aerials in wide valleys 3-4 national channels in an Ukrainian language and Russian languages and 2-4 local channels in Russian, popular Russian teleprograms including in the announcement are accepted.

Radio in a range of average waves - the state Ukrainian channels, in a range 90-110 FM - commercial is musical-information channels since 2005 also in the Ukrainian language, but with the big share of the Russian pop.

Help services are on all transport knots (the airports, railway stations, autostations etc.) – they give announcements in Russian and the Ukrainian language. There are also telephone help services – in Russian. Newspapers are published in Russian, but it is a lot of advertising in an Ukrainian language.

ATTENTION. Do not use the cards published in Kiev with the Ukrainian names of the Crimean settlements and especially warn against their use and using the Ukrainian phrase books of foreign tourists. The local population of Crimea in the weight cannot guess that "…ыръш=эр чр=юър" is a Blue Gulf, and "°=рья№" are stamps.

Igor Rusanov