17 Facts About Sevastopol

Sevastopol, sometimes written Sebastopol, is the largest city in Crimea and a major port on the Black Sea.

Sevastopol visited the city in 1787, accompanied by Joseph II, the Emperor of Austria, and other foreign dignitaries.

The modern day city of Sevastopol has no connection to the ancient and medieval Greek city, but the ruins are a popular tourist attraction located on the outskirts of the city.

The front settled into the siege of Sevastopol, involving brutal conditions for troops on both sides.

Sevastopol finally fell after eleven months, after the French had assaulted Fort Malakoff.

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Administratively, Sevastopol was a municipality excluded from the adjacent Crimean Oblast.

Sevastopol remained the location of the Russian Black Sea Fleet headquarters, and the Ukrainian Naval Forces Headquarters were located in the city.

Russian society in general and even some outspoken government representatives never accepted the loss of Sevastopol and tended to regard it as temporarily separated from Russia.

City of Sevastopol is located at the southwestern tip of the Crimean peninsula in a headland known as Heracles peninsula on a coast of the Black Sea.

Away in a remote location southeast of Sevastopol is located the former city of Balaklava, the bay of which in Soviet times served as a main port for the Soviet diesel-powered submarines.

Sevastopol has a mediterranean climate, closely bordering on a humid subtropical climate.

Executive power in Sevastopol is exercised by the Sevastopol City State Administration, led by a chairman appointed by the Ukrainian president.

On 18 March 2014, Russia formally annexed Crimea with Sevastopol being administered as a federal city of Russia, the others being Moscow and St Petersburg.

Sevastopol maintains a large port facility in the Bay of Sevastopol and in smaller bays around the Heracles peninsula.

Population of Sevastopol is 509,992, consisting of 479,394 urban residents and 30,598 rural, making it the most populous city of the Crimean Peninsula.

In 2015, Sevastopol had the largest decrease in life expectancy at birth among all regions of Russia.

In 2020, after beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Sevastopol became the only region of Russia where there was increase of life expectancy.