It has many opportunities for autotourism. For it accessiable the Black Sea, the Kerch Strait, the Azov Sea, the Sivash Lake and a number of curative lakes. And everywhere is different saltiness, temperature of water and kinds of fish.
Kerch is an ancient city. In the 6th century BC ancient Greeks founded Panticapaeum, which soon became the capital of Bosphoran Kingdom. In the early Middle Ages, Korchev (Panticapaeum) was an outpost of Byzantium, then it came to the Khazars.
The importance of Kerch grew from 1821 when the governorship was established monumental barrows with rich burials of slave-owning nobility of the Bosphoran Kingdom have been preserved in the vicinity of Kerch.
The Church of St.John the Babtist is an outstanding monument of Byzantine architecture. The Enikale Fortress guarded the entrance into the Kerch Strait.
The Museum of History of Defense, Adzhimushkai quarries, Art Gallery introduce the dramatic pages of the Great Patriotic War.
As Homer and other ancient authors evidence in the Bosphor the hero of the Trojan War Akhill was born.
The main Kerch mountain was named after Panticapaeum Tsar Mithridate VI Evpator.