title: YALTA
abstract: Pre-1941: Yalta, city and raion center, Crimean ASSR, RSFSR; 1941–1944: Jalta, administered initially by the Rear Area, Eleventh Army; post–1991: Yalta, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine Yalta is located 444 kilometers (276 miles) south of Dnepropetrovsk. According to the census of December 1926, of the 28,811 inhabitants of Yalta, 2,392 were Jews, including 39 Crimean Jews (Krymchaky). In the Yalta district, including the towns of Alupka, Gurzuf, and Simeiz, there lived another 213 Jews, 1