Sevastopol or traditionally Sebastopol (/sɛvəˈstoʊpəl, -ˈstɒpəl/ or /sɛˈvæstəpəl, -pɒl/ Russian: Севасто́поль, Ukrainian: Севасто́поль ; Crimean Tatar: Акъяр, Aqyar; Greek: Σεβαστούπολη, Sevastoupoli) is a city located in the southwestern region of the Crimean Peninsula on the Black Sea.
Population: 379,200
Latitude: 44° 35' 19.79" N
Longitude: 33° 31' 20.64" E
The Charge of the Light Brigade was a charge of British light cavalry led by Lord Cardigan against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854 in the Crimean War. Lord Raglan, overall commander of the British forces, had intende…
The Battle of Balaclava, fought on 25 October 1854 during the Crimean War, was part of Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) to capture the port and fortress of Sevastopol, Russia's principal naval base on the Black Sea. The engagement followed the earlie…
The Siege of Sevastopol took place on the Eastern Front of the Second World War. The campaign was fought by the Axis powers of Germany, Romania, and Italy against the Soviet Union for control of Sevastopol, a port in the Crimea on the Black Sea. On …
Chersonesus (Ancient Greek: Χερσόνησος Chersonēsos; Latin: Chersonesus; modern Ukrainian: Херсонес, Khersones, Russian: Херсонес, Khersones; also rendered as Chersonese, Chersonesos), in medieval Greek contracted to Cherson (Χερσών; Old East Slavic:…
The Battle of Inkerman was fought during the Crimean War on 5 November 1854 between the allied armies of Britain, France and Ottoman Empire against the Imperial Russian Army. The battle broke the will of the Russian Army to defeat the allies in the …
Giulio Cesare was one of three Conte di Cavour-class dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) in the 1910s. She served in both World Wars, although she was little used and saw no combat during the former. The ship supp…
"Belbek" Sevastopol International Airport (Ukrainian: Міжнародний аеропорт "Бельбек"; Russian: Международный аэропорт "Бельбек", г.Севастополь) (IATA: UKS, ICAO: UKFB) is an international airport in Belbek, near Sevastopol.
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Zaporizhzhia (U-01) (Ukrainian: Запоріжжя) is a project 641 ("Foxtrot" class) diesel-electric powered submarine, and was the only submarine of the Ukrainian Navy up until her seizure in 2014 by pro-Russian forces during the events of March of that y…
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The Saint Vladimir Cathedral is a Neo-Byzantine Russian Orthodox cathedral on the site of Chersonesos Taurica. It commemorates the presumed place of St.
The Inkerman Monastery of St. Clement is a cave monastery in a cliff rising near the mouth of the Black River, in the city of Inkerman, administered as part of the sea port of Sevastopol. It was founded in 1850 on the site of a medieval Byzantine mo…
Berdyansk Raion (Ukrainian: Бердянський район) is one of the 20 raions (districts) of Zaporizhia Oblast in southern Ukraine. The administrative center of the region is Berdyansk which does not belong to the raion and is incorporated separately as a …
Baryshivka Raion (Ukrainian: Баришівський район, translit.: Baryshivs’kyi raion) is a raion in east-central Kiev Oblast (province) of Ukraine. Its administrative center is Baryshivka. The raions area totals 957.6 km². The raion was formerly known as…
Balaklavskyi Raion (Ukrainian: Балаклавський район) is an administrative raion (district) of the city of Sevastopol.
The Brotherhood cemetery (Russian: Братское кладбище на Северной стороне) is an Imperial Russian military cemetery in Sevastopol, Ukraine.