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Founded in 1783 as the base of the Black Sea Navy of Russia, Sevastopol city grew out of bounds of naval base and became one of the biggest Ukrainian sea ports, a cultural, historical and recreation-tourist center. Until 1948 Sevastopol was a city of regional subordination. October 29, 1948 under the decree of the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada of the RSFSR Sevastopol was recognized as a separate administrative and economic center with its own budget. In connection with the transfer of the Crimea region on 19 February 1954 in the territorial-administrative subordination of the USSR, Sevastopol remained a city of republican subordination in the Ukraine. In 1991, after the proclamation of independence of Ukraine, Sevastopol became the Ukrainian city under central authority. In March 1995, it was removed from the Crimean autonomous republic, and declared the city under the Central Government’s "special status", which is stipulated for in the adopted in June 1996 Constitution. Parameters of the special status of the city should be stipulated for in the law of Ukraine "On the status of Hero City of Sevastopol, which is pending in Parliament.On December 1, 1995 the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine canceled controlled entry to Sevastopol. The city was opened to foreign tourism and commerce. There are now two fleets have their bases in the city: the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Russian Black Sea Fleet. According to the agreement between Russia and Ukraine signed on 31 May 1997, the city hosts naval base of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. On April 21, 2010 in Kharkov, Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed the Agreement between Ukraine and Russia on the Black Sea Fleet on Ukrainian territory, which extended the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s lease for 25 years. That presents from itself modern Sevastopol City? Sevastopol! Its heart is beating full of warmth and youth. Thrice born, uniquely beautiful, to its last stone, it is the bright chronicle of feats, The white colonnade of the Grafskaya Wharf has been decorating the city since 1846. Starting from Nakhimov Square, situated in the center of Sevastopol, its granite steps go down to the sea. The image of the Grafskaya Wharf has become a specific emblem of the hero-city: the whole history of Sevastopol from foundation to the present days relates to this architecture monument. Four wide solemn flights of stairs go from the sea surface up to the white colonnade. The stairs are surrounded by the retaining walls from both sides. Two rows of refined Doric columns (6 in each row) support the strict classical frieze with the small parapet cornice above. The higher parapet (attic) decorates it and shows the date of the building - 1846. There are two antic statures made by Italian sculptor Fernando Pellichio, situated in the bays of the colonnade. Two lying lions, made by the same master, complete the set of the stairs at the way down to the sea. As it was planned by the admiral Lazarev, the wharf became the front berth of Sevastopol. Today the Grafskaya Wharf, one of the oldest monuments of the city and its decoration One of the most beautiful squares of the city, the admiral Nakhimov Primorskiy Boulevard and its monuments are situated in the beginning of Nakhimov Street, across the Seaman's Boulevard. This is one of the most favorite places of Sevastopol people for having rest. It's not only the wonderful view to the raid and the famous Sevastopol Bay, but also the cozy nooks of rest and pictorial alleys, which attract visitors. In several meters from the wharf of the Primorskiy Boulevard, at the 3 meters cliff, built from roughly processed granite blocks, the shaped Corinthian column - the monument of the Sunk Ships - is raising. The bronze eagle with spread wings crowns it. With bent head, it has a laurel wreath in its beak. The inscription at the pedestal says: "In memory of the ships sunk in 1854-1855, to block the entrance into the roadstead". The monument was build to the honor of the ships, which were sunk in the Crimean War to defend Sevastopol from enemy attacks from the sea. The total height of the monument is 16,66 m. The anchors from the sunk ships are attached to the wall of the wharf of the Primorskiy Boulevard, across the monument. Today this romantic monument, one of the favorites of Sevastopol people, is shown at the Sevastopol flag. The modern Sevastopol looks proudly in the mirror of its bays, it is one of the biggest industrial, cultural and scientific centers of the south of Ukraine, one of the most beautiful cities. It became bigger and better after the war. In the fifties of XX century, at times of the high working enthusiasm in the USSR, the circle of central streets and squares was built up. Then the outlying districts were changed to better. The new many-storied housing estates were built; each of these districts has almost the size of the prewar Sevastopol. The avenues of Octyabrskoy Revolyutsii, Pobedy (Victory), general Ostryakov, the streets of Dmitriy Uliyanov and Khustaleva, they are wide and beautiful, open towards the sun and the sea. A big part of Ukrainian fishing, transport-refrigerating and scientific-research fleets is based in Sevastopol, there are developed ship-repairing, radio-electronic industries, the power construction and the agroindustrial complexes. There are more than 10 thousand enterprises of different industrial fields and forms of property in the administrative borders of the city. Majority of the big enterprises is developed in the fishing catching and processing fields. Every year floating and coastal tinned food factories produce millions of tons of canned fish goods and thousands of tons of different smoked, dried and pickled production. The entire sea transport-refrigerating fleet of Ukraine is based in Sevastopol, which is 4 % of the world's refrigerating fleet. There are six ship-repairing factories in the city, which can make repair of all kinds and classes of the ships. Workers of the docks have a big experience in repairing the ships of different countries of the world. The most power sea-floating cranes of the former Soviet Union with tonnage from 100 to 1600 tons were being built at the Sevastopol Sea Factory of S. Ordzhonikidze. The floating cranes are easy to use in ports, at The enterprises of the former military-industrial establishment of the USSR, the radio electronics and instrument-making enterprises take a special part in the industrial potential of the city. Balaklava's ore plant takes an important part in the city economics, it produces metallurgical limestone; and such building materials as crushed stone of different fractions, marble aggregate, quarry stone and others are produced from the raw materials, which can't be used for limestone producing. Construction enterprises of Sevastopol make building materials from the Inkerman stone that is exported to many countries of the world. Clothing and knitting industry consists of several enterprises, which produce garments that are in demand in all regions of Ukraine. The garment factory of N. Onilova is provided with the programmed complex aggregates. The factory puts on sale thousands suits a year. Agriculture of the region specializes in gardening, wine growing and vegetable growing. Sevastopol is one of the most significant grapes regions of Ukraine; the area for vineyards is about 8 thousand hectares. Sevastopol grapes have a high quality and a variety of sorts; the selected table wines were produced here. The rich technological, producing base of wine-making and the store experience make the city a supplier of the best grape wines and champagne in Ukraine. External economic According to the Decree of Ukrainian Government, Sevastopol city became open for visitors from other countries, and foreign ships can enter the ports. About 500 thousand tourists, including 12-15 thousand of foreign tourists, visit Sevastopol every year. There are 15 hotels for 1500 persons, more than twenty restaurants for more than 1000 seats and more than 500 stores. The efficient geographical location of the city, the auspicious natural-climatic conditions, the quite high resort potential and the experience of the international activity presume to consider the perspectives of the region development as a big international commercial industrial and tourist center of the south of Ukraine. The transport complex of the city consists of 6 train stations with length of the branch lines 35 km and manufacture of 600 freight cars per day. The carrying capacity is 23 train pairs per day. The train branches and dead-end sidings lead to the most of Sevastopol bays, where the freight transportation is realized.
The main motorways Sevastopol-Simferopol (the traffic capacity is 18 thousand ones per day) and Sevastopol-Yalta (the same traffic capacity) provide the highway connection of Sevastopol to all regions of Crimea. The city has a good mooring line, its l ength is more than 30 km. There are 287 berths in the city, some of them are deep-water, equipped for loading the large-capacity vessels with settlement up to 10-12 m. The city has two first class aerodromes (the runway is 3,2 km) that can bring to land passenger and transport airplanes of all kinds. The aerodrome Belbek can realize working with 500 tons of freight and 500 passengers per day. The scientific and educational base of the city consists of 12 research institutes and research and development organizations, including 2 research institutes of the Ukraine National Academy of Sciences, Sevastopol National Technical University for 10 thousand students, Sevastopol Naval Institute, Sevastopol Institute of nuclear energy and industry, 17 branches of higher institutes, 12 technical and specialized schools, 60 secondary schools, colleges and lyceums. In 1999 the branch of Moscow State University of M.V. Lomonosov was
During the year 2011 the 37 activities, associated with the visits of official foreign delegations, have been organized and carried out by Sevastopol City State Administration. Among them were three Ambassadors of foreign states to Ukraine, four consuls general, three attaches. Also there were six visits of military delegations and eight visits of business representatives. Delegations of 17 countries and international organizations of the Russian Federation, USA, Turkey, Germany, Poland, Sweden, France, Romania, Bulgaria, Georgia, Finland, Lithuania, the European Commission, India, Singapore, Japan and Italy have made official visits to Sevastopol. It should be noted that Opening of the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Sevastopol in April 2011 was one of the most significant events. One of the main objects of the Consulate General is the development of cultural ties, economic cooperation between Ukraine and Poland. Also among the most important events in the cultural life of the city were the visits of Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna, a descendant of the Romanov family and Head of the Russian Imperial House, heir to Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin - Alexander Aleksandrovich Pushkin and his wife Maria Aleksandrovna Pushkina, as well as Sevastopol International Art Festival «War and Peace». In connection with the implementation of EU project "The Joint Cooperation Initiative in Crimea" European Union is still interested in Sevastopol. This is evidenced by numerous visits to Sevastopol by Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine Mr. Jose Manuel Pinto Teixeira, Chief inspector of the Foreign Investment Attraction Project Mr. Jean-Luc Poget, Senior Banker of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Mr. Mark Magaletsky.
For the purpose of cooperation development with the administrative-territorial entities and the foreign cities, the activities for enhancing cooperation within a framework of agreements that were signed during the previous years, as well as signing of new agreements, are carried out. In April-May 2011 the following normative documents were signed: - the Protocol of Intentions on Cooperation between
Sevastopol City State - the Agreement between Sevastopol City State Administration and the A General data of the region
The total area The total area is 1100 square km, which is 0,143% of the territory of Ukraine, including 864 square km of land, 12% populated; 38% - agricultural areas, 50% - forests and mountains, 236 square km - sea water areas; 57 square km is used by subdivisions of the two Navies - of Ukraine and Russia. Administrative-territorial units The number of districts - 4: Leninskiy, Nakhimovskiy, Balaklavskiy and Gagarinskiy; The local state administrations The city state administration - 1; The Local Councils There are 11 Local Councils - 11, with 396 deputies: the City Council - 1, with 75 deputies; Population (by 01.09.2011) - 380,6 thousand: In the city - (357,1 thousand people, 94 %); in villages - (23,5 thousand people, 6 %). Density of population is 439 people per square km. 71,6% population is Russians, 22,4% are Ukrainians. Among other national groups the largest are: Byelorussians (1,6%), Tatars (0,7%), Crimean Tatars (0,5%), Jewries (0,3%), Armenians (0,3%), Moldavians (0,2%), Azerbaijanians (0,2%), Poland (0,2%). For 0,1% make nationalities: Germans, Bulgarians, Georgians, Greeks and other. Composition of languages is characterized by considerable homogeneity: 90,6% population consider Russian native, 6,8% - Ukrainian. |
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and Sevastopol monuments are the imperishable lines of it. They are kept by the Black sea waves, rocks of the coast, streets and squares, which can't be imagined without slim, neat seamen, the worthy heirs of glory of their fathers and grandfathers, and without numerous monuments. There are more than one thousand and four hundred of monuments, 985 of them are the monuments of history, placed by grateful descendants at the places of bloody battles and soldiers burial places at times of the Crimean (Eastern) War and the Great Patriotic War. Sevastopol monuments and obelisks are the chronicles of the city, which celebrated its 200th anniversary in 1983 and is preparing to celebrate its 220th anniversary in 2003. But there have been so many significant events for these years, so many deeds done, so many famous names, that we come up to the point - the city is proving its given name with honor!
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Primorskiy Boulevard is the complex of monuments and memorial places, which shows the events happened in Sevastopol since the day of its foundation.
shipbuilding plants and in the open water areas. They perform all kinds of sea load lifting, building and assembly, and emergency rescuing jobs.
links. External economic links of Sevastopol city and other countries are constantly developing. The foreign trade turnover of the city was 76,9 millions USD in January-June 2011. There are more than 100 joint ventures working in the city. The companies of the city make export and import operations with partners from 100 countries. Commodity composition of export output is mostly based on fishing production delivery abroad - 55% of the total volume, canned fish delivery - 34,2%, and also on ferrous metallurgy, marine engines with spares and others. Non-ferrous metallurgy goods, varnishes and paints, cable, plastic goods, video equipment, measuring instruments, perfumes and cosmetics, fuel, diesel oil, technical oil and other stuff are imported. All the year round, Sevastopol marine commercial and fish port realizes transportation of different frights, including oils, with the total volume up to 1,5 million tons a year.
