The book is not previously published in Russian by the world famous encyclopedic scientist and traveler, academician of the Berlin and St. Petersburg Academies of Sciences Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811). The work of P.S. Pallas is devoted to issues of geological structure, flora, fauna, history, ethnography, economic activities of peoples and the administrative structure of the Crimean peninsula (Tauris) at the end of the 18th century. The work is characterized by detail and accuracy of observations, liveliness and imagery of the language and retains its scientific significance to the present.