THE USE OF YALTA TELEPHONE NETWORK SERVICES IN THE ESTATE OF MASSANDRA (LATE XIX - EARLY XX CENTURY)
This article is devoted to the consideration of the use and provision of services by the Yalta telephone network operating on the southern coast of the Crimea from the end of the 19th century (based on the materials of the State Archive of the Republic of Crimea). The transformation of the Southern coast of Crimea into the leading resort of the Russian Empire, visited by the royal family, political and noble elite, artists of the empire caused the appearance of the main technical novelties, including the telephone network. Various services provided by the Yalta telephone network and their use by subscribers are considered. The materials described in the article can be widely used in studying the history of the Southern Coast of the Crimea by regional historians, history students and graduate students, researchers of the technical development history of the Russian Empire of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.