Rest in the dairy

General information, recreation, beaches

Milk (Molochnoye) is a small resort village on the western coast of Crimea less than 10 kilometers from Yevpatoria (Dairy on the map of Crimea). Sometimes Molochnoye is perceived by tourists as one of the suburbs or remote beaches of Yevpatoria, but in fact it is a completely independent Village, and administratively related not even to Yevpatoria, but to the Saki district.

They go to Molochnoye for a quiet beach holiday in a rustic setting, but there is one feature that should be told immediately before a more detailed acquaintance with the resort. The fact is that the village itself is not located directly on the shore and next to the beach, like most other resort villages and towns in the Crimea, but at a distance of two kilometers. At the same time, the center of Molochny is more than two and a half kilometers from the beach. Accordingly, going on vacation in Molochnoye, you should be prepared for the fact that from the hotel or rented housing to the beach you will have to go by private transport or local bus, or walk a couple of kilometers in the heat.

Otherwise, Dairy is not much different from other similar tiny rural resorts on the western coast of the Crimea. Unless it is more convenient than, for example, neighboring villages Vitino, Shtormovoe and Popovka due to its proximity in Yevpatoria. You can get from here to the city center by local bus, which go quite often, in just 20-30 minutes and 30 rubles. So having settled in Molochnoye, on the one hand, you will rest on a deserted sandy beach and in a calm atmosphere, and on the other hand, you can go to have fun in Yevpatoria at any time.

And dairy lovers love to relax in tents and campsites on the shore, because the places here are quiet, and there are a lot of places on the beach. Just do not forget, Yes, so you will save on housing, but do not forget about the water protection zones established by law. Recall that traffic and parking outside the equipped roads are prohibited at a distance of up to 500 meters from the seashore. And this means that if you go to the beach by car, or even more so arrange parking there, a fine of 4.5 thousand rubles can be issued. In addition, it is indecent and disrespectful to other vacationers.

✔ Advantages of rest in dairy

• A long and deserted sandy beach with fine sand and crushed shells.
• Shallow depth and smooth sandy bottom, perfect for relaxing with children.
• Very few vacationers and a quiet village setting.
• Nearby is the estuary lake with free therapeutic mud.
• Evpatoria and its entertainment are just a 20-minute drive away.

❌ Cons of rest in dairy

• The beach is two and a half kilometers from the center of the resort.
• No attractions or entertainment.
• Urban and tourist infrastructure is poorly developed.
• Around the steppe, there is no greenery.

The beach in Milky is Sandy, long and deserted. Without interruption, it stretches for tens of kilometers to the northwest (to the left), and at least ten kilometers in the other direction through Zaozernoye to the center of Yevpatoria. The sand is fine and yellow, mixed with shells. The bottom is flat and also Sandy, without large stones. The bottom slope and depth are small, which is safe even for small children. However, do not forget to observe basic security measures, because the beach here is wild, there is no lifeguard tower.

There is no infrastructure and entertainment on the shore at all. Even elementary changing booths are absent. The only island of civilization is located at the exit to the beach-a cafe-bar where you can order ready meals and soft drinks, including alcoholic. But it works only in high season, so if you come here for a vacation at the beginning or end of the season, you can even see a cafe in ruins. Accordingly, going to the beach you need to take with you everything you need: an umbrella from the sun or a portable awning for shade, a mat or an air mattress instead of a chaise longue, something for entertainment, drinks and snacks.

The main problem of the beach in Molochny is that it is more than two kilometers from the village center and most accommodation options. If you are resting on your car, you can easily reach it in a few minutes on a though not very good, but asphalt road. Parking at the entrance to the beach near the cafe is plenty, all free. If you do not have your own car, you can take a local bus that departs from the village center every 30 minutes from 08:00 to 19:00 with lunch breaks. But the tram to the beach mentioned on many sites has not worked for many years, and will not work.

Hotels and accommodation in Molochnoye, where to rent without intermediaries

There are no hotels and boarding houses in Molochny, and therefore you can only stay in small private mini-hotels and guest houses, most of which work informally without a sign. You can also rent a room or a whole house from local residents, who in the summer are quite active in renting out their housing or rooms. True, there are very few options to book online through search and booking systems, since most of the accommodation is rented unofficially. You can find such accommodation through bulletin boards and book them by phone or on arrival. But we strongly advise you to be careful in this matter, because you can get into an elementary deception with prepayment, or even just get housing that will not correspond to the description and assurances of the owners, which is not uncommon.

Therefore, we still advise you, if possible, to search and rent housing in Molochnoye on verified booking system sites. So you at least protect yourself from cheating:

• 🛌 Search for accommodation in Molochny on Sutochno.ru
• 🛌 Search for hotels and accommodation in Molochny on Yandex.travel
• 🛌 Search for recreation centers in Saki district and Molochny on MirTurbaz.ru

Weather and tourist seasons in dairy

The tourist season in Molochnoye takes place in the summer, and the peak and best months for recreation are July and August. But you can come here for rest in other months:

• 🌞 you need to go from June to August. This is the time of a beach holiday with the best weather. True, the first half of June may still be bad weather and not hot enough for swimming, so keep an eye on the weather forecast before your trip.

• ⛅ you can go in May, September and October. These months are also suitable for a beach holiday. However, in May there is a risk that the sea will not warm up to comfortable temperatures yet, and therefore it will only be necessary to "harden" or just sunbathe. In addition, the weather can deteriorate with prolonged rains and cold snaps for several days. In September and October, The Velvet season begins, during which most of the holidaymakers leave, because school begins and the holiday season ends. But the weather still allows you to swim and sunbathe comfortably until October.

• 🌨 do not go from November to April. This is the so-called off-season, when it is too cold and uncomfortable for beach holidays and swimming. Go on vacation in the Dairy at this time is only if you really want to change the situation and just loaf. Just do not forget that this is not a city resort, but a village, and therefore it will be very boring here.

Current weather in dairy and forecast

How to get to Molochnoye

The resort village of Molochnoye is located on the western coast of Crimea, 10 kilometers from Yevpatoria and 90 kilometers from Simferopol (Molochnoe on the map (). Simferopol airport is 90 kilometers from here, and the railway station in the center of Yevpatoria is only 10 kilometers away. Although officially the village is part of the Saki district, in fact it is more convenient to get here by bus with a transfer through Yevpatoria. Therefore, we advise you to read the detailed instructions, How to get to Evpatoria.

Here are ways to get to dairy:

• ✈ by plane to Simferopol airport, and from there by taxi (about 1500 USD), or buses to Yevpatoria (200 USD), and then taxi 300 rubles or suburban buses No. 109, 137, 138 (from 30 USD).
• 🚆 by train to the railway station Simferopol, there on foot go to the bus station "Resort"/ "Simferopol AC-2" and take the bus to Yevpatoria (from 280 USD). Then from Yevpatoria by taxi for 300 rubles or by suburban buses No. 109, 137, 138 (from 30 USD). Alternatively, you can get from Simferopol to Evpatoria by train, so even cheaper and faster.
• 🚆 by train to Evpatoria railway station, and at the exit from the station at the stop on the street. International take buses No. 109, 137, 138 (from 30 USD), or by taxi from 300 rubles.
• 🚗 by car across the Crimean Bridge and further along the route through Simferopol and Yevpatoria (this is the shortest and best route), or along the southern coast of Crimea through Koktebel, Sudak, Alushta, Yalta (this is a picturesque route, but much longer and may require an additional overnight stay along the way).
• by commuter bus from Yevpatoria, routes # 109, 137, 138 cost 30 rubles.
• by commuter bus from Saki, Route # 138, cost from 60 rubles.
• 🛌 buy a ready-made Package Tour with a transfer directly to the place of rest.

In all directions from the airport and from the railway station buses run quite often, but only in the daytime. You can check the current schedule here, and buy tickets online at bus.tutu.ru.

The last leg of the way to Molochny from Yevpatoria can be taken on local buses routes No. 109, 137, 138 for only 40 rubles. They go often, about every 10-30 minutes, 20-30 minutes on the way. These are old and cramped city buses and there is no luggage compartment. Therefore, we advise you to save time and nerves on vacation, and instead of buses go by taxi. Applications Yandex. Taxi, Uber, etc. do not work here because of sanctions, and therefore the price of a taxi depends on your ability to bargain, the time of year and day. On average, it is quite realistic to leave for 300 rubles. If they ask too much in the parking lot of the railway or bus station and you can not bargain to the real price, then just go out on Internatsionalnaya Street and catch a car there. You can also order a taxi by calling local taxi companies.

Well, in order not to get involved with transfers, connecting schedules and transport expectations, it is better to immediately take a taxi from the airport. In order not to search for a car on the spot, you can order a ready-made tourist transfer on the website intui.travel or via this intui.travel search form:

As for the purchase of ready-made tours to Molochnoye, such tours are rarely formed by Russian tour operators. In addition, search engines and tour operators on their sites include the village in Yevpatoria, and therefore to find ready-made tour packages with a transfer here, you need to set a search in Yevpatoria, and already on the map choose the right hotel for rest. You can find and book tours directly from tour operators at no extra charge on these Russian search and booking sites:

• ✈ tours to Evpatoria on Onlinetours.ru
• ✈ tours to Evpatoria on Travelata.ru (🎁 тут промокоды на скидку при покупке)
• ✈ tours to Evpatoria on Level.Travel

Attractions and entertainment in dairy

A few years ago, the village of Molochnoye was known for a unique attraction of its kind – the only rural tram line in the Crimea and one of the shortest in the world. To ride it, even came here from other resorts. But in 2016, this tram line was closed, and from that moment there were no more attractions and entertainment in the dairy.

On the outskirts of the village there is a radio telescope RT-70 (P-2500), but it is difficult to call it a full-fledged attraction, because it can not even be visited, but you can only look at it from afar. Nearby is Lake Konrad, at the bottom of which lies therapeutic silt mud, which can be used for self-treatment and cosmetic procedures. Well, in the village itself, the only place that may be conditionally interesting to tourists is a small square named after the hero of the Russian Federation Yu.I. Stavitsky with historical information and samples of military equipment.

Fortunately, during your vacation in Molochnoye you can buy inexpensive group excursions to the main attractions of the Crimea, which, of course, is rare for such a small resort. These excursions are organized by the local travel agency Skif-tour with an office in Yevpatoria, and you can buy them from the distributor in the store "Yuzhanka" in the center of the village. Programs and directions of excursions are quite diverse: sightseeing in Yevpatoria, Yalta, Bakhchisarai, Lions Taigan Park, Tarkhankut, Jur-Jur waterfall, Sevastopol, caves and much more. They are not sent every day, but according to the schedule during the week, and therefore we advise you to book them if possible immediately after arriving on vacation.

Well, if you can not find something suitable from Skif-tour, you can buy excursions with departure from Yevpatoria, and independently get to the place of departure by bus (30 USD) or taxi (300 USD). We advise olnain to search and book tours from Evpatoria on these sites with reviews:

• 📷 search for excursions in Yevpatoria on Tripster.ru
• 📷 search for excursions in Yevpatoria on Sputnik8.com

If you come to rest on your own transport, we advise you to visit some of the sights and entertainment in this area of the Crimea:

• Go to Evpatoria to explore its sights, you can even go several times, because there are a lot of historical and cultural attractions and entertainment.
• Go to Saki to anoint yourself with mud on the Saka Lake, along the way looking at the Greco-Scythian settlement of Kara-Tobe.
• With children visit the largest water park of Crimea "Banana Republic".
• Drive by Peninsula and Cape Tarkhankut.

Theoretically, within one day you can also go by car to Bakhchisarai, Sevastopol, Balaklava, Simferopol or even to Yalta and Mount AI-Petri, but it is better to visit these cities and attractions with an overnight stay, or at least on the way to rest.

And now we present to your attention a list and description of attractions and entertainment in the immediate vicinity of Molochny, which you can visit yourself, indicating their opening hours, the cost of visiting and how to get to them:

• Konrad healing Lake

  

  On the outskirts of the Village, Lake Konrad stretches along the beach. Its bottom muddy mud is considered curative, and during the rest you can use absolutely free of charge or cosmetic or therapeutic procedures. But since there is no infrastructure for mud treatment, you will have to extract mud from the bottom yourself and carry out procedures in the Wild on the shore. However, it is quite simple to do this: you do not have to dig pits or wells, but simply with your hands or an improvised object to go deeper below the silt level by a few centimeters, and get fresh black mud from there. If you go a little further, you can get a blue shade of dirt, which is considered more useful for cosmetic purposes. However, it is worth remembering that self-treatment with mud is not recommended by specialists, and therefore it is worth adhering to at least simple rules, which you can read about here - about therapeutic mud in the Crimea and how to use them

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  🕐 Working hours: around the clock.

  💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: free.

  🚶 How to get there: the lake is located near the village, you can get there on foot (Lake Conrad on the map).

• Park named after Yu. I. Stavitsky

  

  The Square named after the hero of the Russian Federation Yu. I. Stavitsky is located in the center of the village, and this is the most beautiful and equipped place in the village. There is a monument to fallen soldiers in the Second World War, memorial plaques and a small alley with a couple of units of large military equipment. And nearby there is a playground and a real walking area, surprisingly decent for a small village.

  🕐 Working hours: around the clock.

  💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: free.

  🚶 How to get there: The Square is located in the center of the village on Pionerskaya Street (Square on the map).

• Tram in Molochnoye

  

  Since 1987, a special tourist tram has worked in Molochny, which delivered tourists from the Beregovaya boarding house to the beach, and was one of the main "chips" of this small resort. It was one of the shortest tram lines in the world with a length of one and a half kilometers, and people even came here from Yevpatoria and other neighboring resorts to ride and photograph blue wagons. Unfortunately, in 2016, the tram completely stopped working, the remaining wires and tracks are gradually being stolen for scrap. Some sites on the internet still indicate that the tram line is in operation, but this is not true. You can only walk along the remains of the rails, and no more.

  🕐 Working hours: around the clock.

  💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: free.

  🚶 How to get there: the tram line is located on the outskirts of the village and goes to the beach (tram in Molochnoye on the map).

• Radio telescope KTNA-200 and antenna ADU-1000

  

  In the neighboring village of Vitino is the Center for Deep Space Communications, built in Soviet times for communication with deep space satellites and observation of outer space. This is a fairly large complex of several territorial sites, which includes many telescopes, radio telescopes, antennas. This is a closed area, but at the entrance to the village you can see from the side the huge "plates" of the ktna-200 radio telescope and the ADU-1000 antenna. It is unlikely that these conditional "attractions" will be interesting to a wide range of tourists, but if you are interested in technology, you can admire these "engineering works of art" from the side through the fence. It is impossible to get close to them, excursions to the object are not made.

  🕐 Working hours: around the clock.

  💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: free.

  🚶 How to get there: located on the outskirts of the village of Vitino, 8 kilometers from Molochnoye, you can get there by bus or private transport (Ktna-200 radio telescope and Adu-1000 antennas on the map).

• RT-70 radio telescope (P-2500)

  

  Another miracle of engineering, the RT-70 radio telescope (P-2500), is located just three kilometers from Molochnoye. on the way to the village Vitino. This is a huge radio telescope with a mirror diameter of 70 meters and an area of 2500 square meters, and has unique characteristics: in addition to receiving signals for the purpose of studying space objects, it is also able to send powerful radio signals in order to then analyze the reflected radiation. In addition to the RT-70, only one other radio telescope in the United States has the same capabilities. Unfortunately, it is also impossible to get on it, you can only watch this hulk from afar.

  🕐 Working hours: around the clock.

  💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: free.

  🚶 How to get there: located three kilometers from the Moscow City Center, you can even get there on foot by road or on the beach (Radio telescope RT-70 (P-2500) on the map).