Sevastopol

Sevastopol

Sevastopol ranks 1,591st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Tilburg, Samos, and Olsztyn. Memorable people born in Sevastopol include Ivan Papanin, Galina Prozumenshchikova, and Yevgeniya Sechenova. Memorable people who died in Sevastopol include Maria Nikiforova, Filipp Oktyabrsky, and FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan. Sevastopol has been the birth place of many swimmers, and explorers and the death place of many military personnels, and social activists. Sevastopol is located in .

Sevastopol, sometimes written Sebastopol, is the largest city in Crimea and a major port on the Black Sea. Due to its strategic location and the navigability of the city's harbours, Sevastopol has been an important port and naval base throughout its history. Since the city's founding in 1783 it has been a major base for Russia's Black Sea Fleet. During the Cold War of the 20th century, it was a closed city. The total administrative area is 864 square kilometres (334 sq mi) and includes a significant amount of rural land. The urban population, largely concentrated around Sevastopol Bay, is 479,394, and the total population is 547,820. Read more on Wikipedia