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Rostov-on-Don - General Information

City (1990 est. pop. 1,026,000), capital of Rostov region, SE European Russia, on the Don River near its entrance into the Sea of Azov.

It is a major port and rail hub and an important industrial, cultural, and scientific center. One of Russia's leading producers of agricultural machinery, Rostov-na-Donu also has ship and locomotive repair yards, plants processing food and tobacco, mechanical engineering works, and factories that manufacture chemicals, building materials, electrical equipment, road-making machinery, furniture, clothing, footwear, and leather goods.

A customs house was built on the site in 1749, but the city grew around a fortress erected in 1761 and named for St. Dmitri of Rostov. Chartered in 1797, it was named Rostov-na-Donu to distinguish it from the older city of Rostov. It grew rapidly after the opening of its port in 1834 and was a major grain-exporting center throughout the 19th cent. Its position as a center for trade between European Russia and the Caucasus area also gave it the name „Gateway to the Caucasus.

The city suffered much damage in World War II and had to be rebuilt after the war.

It has a population of 1027100. The building of a fortress named after St.Dimitry has begun in 1761 in the site of the present-day Rostov-on-Don. The fortress settlements have transformed into a city in 1796 which was officially named Rostov-on-Don in 1806. Rostov-on-Don is an industrial, cultural and scientific centre in the south of Russia today. The major cultural establishments of the city are the Drama Theatre, the Music Comedy Theatre, the Puppet Theatre, the Museum of Local Lore and the Museum of Fine Arts.

Rostov-on-Don - culture

 The city has rich cultural traditions. The old-timers invariably take pride in naming you dozens of illustrious figures in literature, art, science and technology, whose lives and work were associated with Rostov . Here Moussorgsky gave concerts, the great Russian actor Mikhail Shchepkin played in the theatre, Alexander Solzhenitsyn studied at Rostov State University, the famous physiologist Pavlov performed his research.

Among the famous names who hailed originally from Rostov are the outstanding doctor N. Bogoraz, the composer M. Gnesin. and that celebrated explorer of the Arctic seas, Georgi Sedov.

Today Rostov-on-Don is the site of the North- Caucasian science centre. It has several higher educational institutes training specialists for various fields of the national economy and dozens of research institutes working on complex theoretical problems. The residents and visitors have a choice of four theatres, a philharmonic, a Sports Palace and over 900 libraries, including the Central City Public library, one of the largest in the country linked to the Internet and other famous electronic library systems including US Library of Congress via satellite channels.

Rostov puts out numerous books, newspapers, and other publications, including the literary journal Don. The works of many writers from the Don area--Sholokhov, Zakrutkin, Kalinin and others--have won the affections of readers far beyond the borders of our country. The Rostov regional film studio puts out documentaries, newsreels and scientific films that are known throughout the country, and programmes from the local TV centre are transmitted far a field.

The city also boasts a fine local lore museum, which gives visitors a good idea of Rostov and its environs--their history and terrain. And the Rostov museum of fine arts is rich in exhibits, including some genuine works by such masters of Russian painting as Repin, Surikov, Perov and Levitan.

Rostov-on-Don - history

Nothern coasts of the Azov Sea were reffered as Palus Maeotis in very ancient times. The coasts, mouth of the Don river and a very wide steppe of the river are well known for already several thouthand years. At least Homer refers to this land in his "Odyssey" and "Iliada", although most of that knowlege were vague and is something like a tale: Greeks only started to explore there. Herod, the first among "serious" historians, visited Don steppes and gave a very precise description. He wrote about people known to the history at that time as Skyphes and as Anthes before. Don was called Thanais (the stress is on the pre-last syllabus: Tha-na-is) by Greeks. They established a settlement also called Thanais. It was the most remote Greek's colony on the North, and the remnants of the settlement can still be found in about 40 km eastward from Rostov. There are a permanent archeological station there, a museum and several other very nice things like old university's observatory and bio-station for students majoring in biology. For the detailed information, please, see the pages on the Rostov University WWW server. There are available in mostly Russian but there are some translations into English.

Because Thanais occupied one of the most convinient places for the trade, it was owned by different people during its history of about 500 years. Upon 375 it was totally destroied by goonn tribes and never restored again.

By IXth century Russians started to appear there with a great deal of interest. They build some settlements; in Xth century the last Russian pagan Prince Sviatoslav won a war with Khazars who disturbed the southern borders of the state. Since this victory the whole land is owned by Rus, although tribes of nomads appeared there for quite a long time. However, not only Sviatoslav visited Don; many Russian Princes took a great deal of care about Southern borders. In 1184 prince Igor was trying to go directly to the center of nomand's "state", but he did not succeed, was taken as a hostange and staied inprisoned for quite a while. Those events are very nicely described in a "The Word about Regiment of Igor" and I recommend to read this manuscript translated into many languages and published.

In 1224 the land saw a great fight between Russians and Tatars. Russians had lost on banks of a river that is now known as Kalmius. In 13 years the second Tatar invasion occured which was a beginnig of the most terrible period in Russia's history. Tatar's power was suspended only after 1380 when Dmitry Donskoy, the Great Prince of Russia, had won a battle on the Kulikovo field.

Being owners of the land Tatars allowed trade there since it would be totally stupid not to -- geographical location of the region is unique. Italians had established a small town called Porto Pizano approximately at the same place where Thanais was, merchants from Venice had built a colony known as Thana right on the place where the City of Azov is now -- on the left side of the Don's mouth. Thana became a very beneficial place very soon; that had made it one of the center of trades between Europe and Asia. However, Thana's wealth was a magnet for nomad tribes which finally had destroied the city in 1395. People were trying to restore Thana but Turks took it over, and since then except for the Azov Fortress the place became look like a desert.

XIVth century was a great time for the steepes. Russian goverment was in need of making these lands secure enough. That was a reason to organize a Border Survice. Futhermore, people were flowing there themselves: almost free land for those who was not satisfied with a state order. So... people ran away and became cossaks. It is known, however, that after Golden Ord fell Russians who were enslaved there staied at those places and created settlements and future cossak traditions. In 1637 cossaks took Azov back from Turks and became full owners of the city.

Although cossaks were very brave, Turks kept the coast of Azov Sea. So, Peter the Great went there twice (1695 and 1696). The result was a total liberation of southern steepes. Peter started to build a port known as Taganrog. Turks were very "upset" and in 1711 Taganrog, Azov and all left coast were taken again. The patience of Russians was lost (it's a generic rule, by the way) upon 1735: Russia started a new war with Austria as an ally. Austrians had lost in several battles and initiated a peace process with Turkey. France was a mediator on these talks having its own interests -- it did not want Russians on the south, near Konstantinopol. Russia could not continue the war without allies, and almost all lands returned to Turkey except for the tiny point -- the Fortress of Sent Anne.

In times of Elizaveta several custom houses were established there; one of them became a progenitor of the city of Rostov in 1749. In 1750 Russian Commerical Company appeared at those places. The company had a monopoly on trades with Konstantinopol but everybody who had shares of the company was able to make a deal also. In 1761 Elizaveta issued an order to establish a fortress of Sent Dmitri Rostovski which was an official acceptance of the settlement existed much long before.