Situated between the steppe and the mountainous region, the Town of Sevastopol (Sevastopoltsy in Ukrainian) was the main war port of the Black Sea, to whom its heroic resistance faced with Franco-English, and German invasions, gained the nickname of City which cannot die. It was founded by Potemkin on 14 June 1783, near the ancient Greek colony of Chersonèse. Fortified by Nicolas I, besieged during the Crimean War in 1854, it was finally taken by the Franco-British armies after two years of fighting. After many other tribulations, Sevastopol distinguished himself during World War II by the heroic resistance against his soil by the Soviet army against German troops. The town, mostly destroyed, fell in 1942. All of these historical turbulence, as well as the monuments that commemorate them, attract in the region many tourists. And, although the Gravier gravel beach forming less world than that of Yalta, the city itself offers pleasant walks in its white and tree-lined streets, and on its quays with water, where Stalinist buildings take the lightness of Venetian palaces. It is the most Russian and Russophile of Crimea.

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Fort de la colline de Malakoff. Stéphan SZEREMETA
Rade de Sébastopol. Stéphan SZEREMETA
Cathédrale Saint-Vladimir. Stéphan SZEREMETA
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