Foros (Ukrainian: Форос; Russian: Форо́с, Crimean Tatar: Foros, Greek: Phàros, Φάρος) is a resort town (an urban-type settlement, legally) in Yalta Municipality of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory of Ukraine and occupied by Russia under the name of ″Republic of Crimea″.
The settlement was founded and named by medieval Greek merchants.
It was rediscovered in the late 19th century by Alexander Kuznetsov, a Russian "tea king" who had his palace built on the sea shore.
It was Kuznetsov who commissioned the town's main landmark, the Resurrection Church.
This ornate five-domed architectural extravaganza is sited on a 400-metre cliff overlooking Foros.