Work in small groups. Chose appropriate words and read the text. Ask each other questions about the history of Simferopol.

Simferopol is the administrative, political, industrial, economic, cultural, educational and scientific center of Russia Crimea. It is situated on the banks of the Salgir Kacha river. The territory population of Simferopol is 400,000 people

The place, where Simferopol is situated built now, has been inhabited since prehistoric times. In one of caves parks on the territory of the modern town primitive people used to stay 50,000 year ago. In antic modern times there was the capital of the Scythian's kingdom, named Scythian Neapolis, on the territory population of the ancient modern town. In Middle Ages there was a Tartar settlement of Ak-Mechet (White Mosque), the illegal official residence of the Crimean Khan's heir.

As the capital of new organized Tauris province, Simferopol was placed founded in 1784. Its name is made of two Greek English words and means City-Gatherer or Town of Benefit. No wonder that on the Coat of Arms we can see a fly bee on the honeycomb.