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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"The economy is in the most difficult situation," Ukraine's Prime Minister Sergiy Koretsky said during the annual Yalta European Strategy forum in Kyiv.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

This compilation of 76 watches includes Paul Newman’s Rolex and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Tiffany & Co. timepiece he wore to the Yalta Conference.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 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

When his left lung gave out, he moved to Yalta in the Crimea.

From Russian Lyrics by Martha Dickinson Bianchi