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Sevastopol is the largest non-freezing
commercial and fishing Black Sea port of Ukraine and one of the major
industrial, scientific, and cultural centers of the country
and Eastern Europe in general. Located on the site of the ancient
Greek colony, Khersonesus, the city itself and the Black Sea
Fleet, based in Sevastopol, have occupied a prominent place in Russian
and Soviet history.
The whole city is one big museum, with over 1,800 monuments
and memorials. Among them are Russian, Ukrainian, Armenian, British,
French, Georgian, German, Greek, Italian, Jewish, and other
historic sites such as the world-famous Khersonesus, "Panorama
of the Heroic Defense of Sevastopol during the 1854 - 1855 Crimean
War", diorama "Storm of Sapun Mountain on May 7, 1944",
"British Crimean Military Memorial," etc. Sevastopol is
annually visited by more than 500,000 tourists. |
