A drone attacked the Balaklava thermal power plant in Sevastopol on Thursday night, as a result of which one of the transformers caught fire. There were no casualties and the incident did not affect the electricity supply, as the Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev wrote in his Telegram channel. “Tonight, a UAV attack was carried out on
Yesterday, on November 4, Russian President Vladimir Putin paid a visit to Crimea in honour of the Unity Day celebration. On a special occasion, he met there the Sevastopol Head, Mikhail Razvozhaev, and supported his request for a one-time payment of 50 thousand rubles to participants of the heroic defence of Sevastopol during the Great
The British Royal Court responded to a letter from schoolchildren of the “Small Academy of Sciences” in Sevastopol, Crimea. In the “address” section, there is stated “Sevastopol, Russia”. Thus, the country’s government indirectly recognised that the peninsula belongs to Russia. As noted, this summer, the students of the creative association “Entertaining English” wrote a letter
The project of the Russian unmanned aerial taxi is presented at the ‘Intellect of Machines and Mechanisms’ exhibition in Sevastopol, RIA Novosti reports. The developers of the project are the “Problem Laboratory “Turbomachines” and the research laboratory “Flight Dynamics and Control of Unmanned Aircraft Systems”. “New principles of aerodynamics, which make it possible to build
Dozens of ships sailed along the Sevastopol Bay as part of the “Memory Squadron” action. Yachts and boats carried on their sides the names of ships that had gone during the Great Patriotic War, TASS reports. For Sevastopol, May 9 is not only the Day of Victory in the Great Patriotic War but also the
A monument dedicated to those who died during the Civil War of 1917-1922 was unveiled in Sevastopol, RIA News reports. It is located on the coast of Karantinnaya Bay, from where you can see the Tauric Chersonesos and St. Vladimir’s Cathedral. A monument in Sevastopol is dedicated to the end of the Civil War of
The overall increase in the population of Russia in 2018-2020 was observed in 21 regions, RIA News reports. Sevastopol took the leading place in the rating in percentage terms. The three leaders also included Ingushetia, the Leningrad region, and Chechnya. In quantitative terms, the population growth leaders were the Moscow Region, Moscow, and the Krasnodar
On March 18, the Republic of Crimea celebrates the Day of Crimea’s Reunification with Russia. In Sevastopol, this date is called the Day of the Return of the City of Sevastopol to Russia and is considered a non-working day, RIA News reports. Crimea and Sevastopol became Russian regions again after a referendum held on March
The panorama to the 50th anniversary of the First Defence of Sevastopol during the Crimean War was written by Franz Roubaud, who is considered to be the founder of the Russian school of battle and panoramic painting. The fragments of the panorama are planned to be returned to Sevastopol from Moscow in 2021, where they
The Sevastopol Military History Museum-Reserve showed military equipment from the exposition located at the Sapun-Gora memorial complex, the press service of the museum reports. It is planned that the T-34 tank will be involved in the winter, and after the warming in the spring, other military equipment will be launched too. “Today there was
Russian President, Vladimir Putin, opened the Tavrida highway in Crimea, which connects Kerch and Sevastopol. The head of state suggested creating more ways to the sea to make it more convenient for tourists, TASS reports. Putin said that people usually do not go to the city of Simferopol itself but to the sea on the
A unique direction of additional education “Mariquantum” for schoolchildren and students was opened on the basis of the Sevastopol “Quantorium”. In the free classes, children can study the state of water bodies and coastal areas using professional probes and getting acquainted with marine robotics, RIA News reported. The name of the project consists of two
Crimea has hit the tourist flow record over post-Soviet years, over 7 million people spent vacations on the peninsula by the beginning of the winter, Deputy Chairman of Crimea’s Council of Ministers and Permanent Presidential Envoy Georgy Muradov told TASS. “This year, we exceeded the number of 7 million tourists. Crimea is Russia’s second most
