title: ALUSHTA
abstract: Pre-1941: Alushta, town and raion center in the Crimean ASSR, RSFSR; 1941–1944: Aluschta, (in 1941–1942) Rear Area, 11th Army; post-1991: Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine Alushta is located 45 kilometers (28 miles) southeast of Simferopol’ on the coast of the Black Sea. According to the 1939 census, there were 251 Jews living in Alushta, comprising 2.6 percent of the town’s total population. Another 277 Jews lived in the settlements of the Alushta raion, comprising about 1 percent of the r