Yachting and coastal marine transport development in Black Sea coast of Russia

Creation of infrastructure for coastal sea passenger transport and yachting along the Black Sea coast of Russia is one of the important direc-tions of development potential of coastal cities. This infrastructure will al-low increasing significantly quality of the recreation, to diversify tourist ac-tivity (tourism, hotel business, etc.). Creation of modern yacht-harbors, re-construction and development of port piers for coastal passenger transport will allow increasing in essence quality of tourism and developing touristic activity in the region. The basic principles are defined for the analysis of re-quirements and existing conditions of the territory and the prospects of de-velopment of the Russian coast. They take into account all aspects of func-tioning of yacht-harbors and port piers as one of the most important ele-ments of development of seaside city.