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2 unusual facts about Sevastopol: On Photographs of War


Sevastopol: On Photographs of War

The power of word and image together makes Sevastopol an unusual and moving poetic experience, linking us with those who did not escape the horrors and misery of man's most grisly occupation.

One photographer, Kevin Carter, who snapped a picture of a starving child with a vulture waiting in the background — committed suicide.


Anatoly Pavlovich Demidov, 4th Prince of San Donato

Princess and Countess Evgenia Anatolyevna Demidova (Saint Petersburg, 25 September OS: 12 September 1902 - Cazouls-lès-Béziers, 25 April 1955), married in Nice on 29 September 1927 Jean Gerber (Sevastopol, 2 February 1905 - Geneva, 9 September 1981)

Brotherhood Cemetery

Three burials were created according to order of admiral Vladimir Kornilov near the Northern fort of Sevastopol.

City with special status

Sevastopol is also separate from the surrounding region (Autonomous Republic of Crimea), retaining its special status from Soviet times as closed city, serving as a base for the former Soviet Black Sea Fleet.

Claude George Drummond Hay

He died in Sevastopol while working as a special correspondent in southern Russia for the Daily Telegraph.

Dasha from Sevastopol

The couple ran an inn in a village, then moved to Nikolaev, but Dasha eventually returned to Sevastopol where she ran a tavern and worked in a hospital.

Karp-class submarine

Some reports have the submarine sinking near Kronstadt due to an erroneously opened valve while others have her sinking in an accidental collision with Rostislav near Sevastopol.

Katharine McMahon

The Rose of Sebastopol was shortlisted for the Best Read Award at the Galaxy British Book Awards 2008.

Lev Psakhis

In international tournaments, he has had many fine results, including outright or shared first place at Naleczow 1980, Sarajevo 1981, Cienfuegos 1983, Troon 1984, Sverdlovsk 1984, Szirak 1986, Sarajevo 1986, Sevastopol 1986, Lugano Open 1988, Tel Aviv 1990 (and again in 1999), London MSO 1999 and Andorra 2002.

Separate Coastal Army

On October 20, the Army and the Sevastopol Defense District are reassigned to the Transcaucasus Front, on December 30, to the Caucasian Front, on January 28, 1942 to the Crimean Front, on April 26, under the direct supervision of the Commander in Chief of the Southwest Direction.

Sevastopol

Out of other settlements, the municipality also contains 29 rural settlements including villages as well as two urban settlements: the Inkerman City and the town of Kacha.

SoftServe

The company is headquartered in Lviv, Ukraine and Fort Myers, Florida, while its development offices are located in the Ukrainian cities of Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne, Chernivtsi, and Sevastopol.

Soviet submarine Shch-215

On 16 April, midway between Constanța and Sevastopol, Shch-215 attacked a German convoy.

Tony Jannus

Jannus died on October 12, 1916, near Sevastopol (then part of Czarist Russia) when his plane, a Curtiss H-7 he was using to train Russian pilots, had engine problems and crashed into the Black Sea, killing Jannus and his two-man Russian crew.

Ukrainian Olympiad in Informatics

Students compete on an individual basis, with up to ten or even more students competing from each participating region (there were 28 teams including 25 teams of Ukrainian regions, teams of Kiev, Sevastopol and team of UPML (Ukrainian Physico-Mathematical Lyceum) in 2005).

Vauxhall Prince Henry

Prince Henry cars also competed in other international trials including the 1911 St Petersburg to Sebastopol Trial and so two cars were sold to Tsar Nicholas II.

Victory Square, Minsk

On 1 July 1984 granite blocks were mounted with capsules containing soil from Soviet Hero Cities: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Volgograd, Kiev, Odessa, Sevastopol, Kerch, Novorossiysk, Tula, Brest Fortress.

Welsford-Parker Monument

The Siege of Sevastopol was the subject of Crimean soldier Leo Tolstoy's Sebastopol Sketches and the subject of the first Russian feature film, Defence of Sevastopol.

Yaacov Liberman

Liberman was born in Harbin, China into a wealthy Russian Jewish family, to Semyon Liberman from Sevastopol and Gisia Zuboreva from Nikolayevsk-on-Amur.

Zina Bethune

Bethune was born in New York City, the daughter of Ivy (née Vigder), an actress (born June 1, 1918, Sevastopol, Russia) and William Charles Bethune, a sculptor and painter who died in 1950 when Zina was five years old.


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