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Sevastopol
Sevastopol is the largest ice-free commercial and fishing
port on the Black Sea of Ukraine around the world and
one of the major industrial, scientific, and cultural
centres not only of the country but Eastern Europe as
a whole. 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
history.
LOCATION : south-western part of the Crimean Peninsula,
on the same parallel as the Italian city of Milan and
the French city of Lyons.
POPULATION : 390,100 (as of 07.01.99), comprised of 28 nationalities.
ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE: the city is divided into four districts (boroughs) - Leninsky, Nakhimovsky, Gagarinsky, and Balaklavsky. Includes towns of Inkerman and Balaklava and 46 townships (former villages).
SCIENCE AND EDUCATION: 12 research institutes and organisations,
including 2 scientific research institutes of the Ukrainian
Academy of Sciences , the Sevastopol State Polytechnical
University (with 10 thousand students), the Sevastopol
Institute of Nuclear Energy, the Sevastopol Naval Institute,
12 technical schools and professional schools, 60 comprehensive
schools, colleges and lyceums.
CULTURE, ARTS AND SPORTS: 4 theatres, 11 arts and entertainment centres; 10 museums, numerous libraries, including the famous Morskaya Biblioteka (the Naval Library) of the Black Sea fleet; 4 stadiums; and 3 yacht clubs.
TOURIST ACCOMMODATIONS: 10 hotels, 20 restaurants.
PLACES OF INTEREST: 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 Defence 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.
The cities advantageous geographical situation, its favourable natural climatic conditions, as well as the availability of highly developed industrial, scientific, and human resources make the Sevastopol region one of the most promising international tourist, commercial, and industrial centres of Europe.
The climate of the Sevastopol region is close to the subtropical climate of the Southern coast of Crimea (dry, clean air, ice-free sea). In winter the temperature fluctuates between -2 and + 7 degrees Centigrade. The summer heat is softened by sea breezes - in the daytime they blow from sea to land, at night - from land to sea.
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