Yalta

American  

[yawl-tuh, yahl-tah] / ˈjɔl tə, ˈjɑl tɑ /

noun

1. a seaport in Crimea, in southeastern Ukraine, on the Black Sea: site of wartime conference of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin February 4–12, 1945.

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Yalta British  

/ ˈjaltə /

noun

1. a port and resort in S Ukraine, in the Crimea on the Black Sea: scene of a conference (1945) between Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin, who met to plan the final defeat and occupation of Nazi Germany. Pop: 80 552 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

Three months before the defeat of the Nazis in 1945, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin met at Yalta and outlined plans for a postwar Germany and a new global order.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2025

The second is that Central and Eastern European countries have a history of great powers divvying up their lands, first in 1938, in Munich with Adolf Hitler, and then in Yalta 1945, with Josef Stalin.

From Slate • Feb. 20, 2025

But the new Defence Minister, Rustem Umerov, told the Yalta European Strategy forum in September that there are more than 800,000 in the Ukrainian armed forces.

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2023

The southern town of Yalta was the prime holiday destination during Soviet times, with many sanatoriums built in and around it.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 31, 2023

Both these latter remained from “Uncle Vanya,” which play the Moscow Art Theatre acted at Yalta, evidently with the sole purpose of showing the performance to Anton Pavlovitch who was ill then.

From Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov by Bunin, I. A.