Rostov-on-Don (rus)

Rostov-on-Don

Rostov-on-Don ranks 273rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind West Berlin, San Sebastián, and Hampstead. Memorable people born in Rostov-on-Don include Sabina Spielrein, Yuri Oganessian, and Savielly Tartakower. Memorable people who died in Rostov-on-Don include Oleg Kopayev, Oleg Popov, and Dmitri Ivanovsky. Rostov-on-Don has been the birth place of many athletes, and chess players and the death place of many soccer players, and actors. Rostov-on-Don is located in Russia.

Rostov-on-Don is a port city and the administrative centre of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of Russia. It lies in the southeastern part of the East European Plain on the Don River, 32 kilometers (20 mi) from the Sea of Azov, directly north of the North Caucasus. The southwestern suburbs of the city lie above the Don river delta. Rostov-on-Don has a population of over one million people and is an important cultural, educational, economic and logistical centre of Southern Russia. Read more on Wikipedia