Novocherkassk (rus)

Novocherkassk

Novocherkassk ranks 1,792nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Örnsköldsvik, Ivanovo, and Spanish Town. Memorable people born in Novocherkassk include Yuriy Sedykh, Alexander Lebed, and Valerian Zorin. Memorable people who died in Novocherkassk include Nikolai Iudovich Ivanov, Andrei Chikatilo, and Alexey Kaledin. Novocherkassk has been the birth place of many athletes, and politicians and the death place of many military personnels, and extremists. Novocherkassk is located in Russia.

Novocherkassk is a city in Rostov Oblast, Russia, located near the confluence of the Tuzlov and Aksay Rivers, the latter a distributary of the Don River. Novocherkassk is best known as the cultural capital of the Cossacks, and as the official capital of the Don Cossacks. Population: 168,746 (2010 Census); 170,822 (2002 Census); 187,973 (1989 Soviet census). Read more on Wikipedia