Sevastopol
is the largest Ukrainian non-freezing commercial and fishing Black Sea port
and one of the major industrial,scientific, and cultural centers of the country
and Eastern Europe in general. Located on the site of the ancient Greek co
lony,
Khersones, the city itself and the Black Sea Fleet,based in Sevastopol, have
occupied a prominent place in Russian, Ukrainian and Soviet history. The whole
city is one big museum, with over 1,800 monuments and memorials. Among them
are Russian, Ukrainian, Jewish,Georgian, Armenian, Greek, German, British,
French, Italian, and
other historic sites such as the world-famous Khersones,"Panorama of the Heroic
Defense of Sevastopol during the 1854 - 1855 Crimean War", diorama "Storm
of Sapun Mountain on May 7, 1944", "British Crimean Military 
Memorial,"
etc. Sevastopol is annually visited by more than 500,000 tourists.
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