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Sevastopol
Largest city on the Crimean peninsula

Sevastopol

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

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Due to its strategic location and the navigability of the city's harbours, Sevastopol has been an important port and naval base throughout its history. Since the city's founding by Catherine the Great in 1783, it has been a major base for Russia's Black Sea Fleet. During the Cold War of the 20th century, it was a closed city. The total administrative area is 864 square kilometres (334 sq mi) and includes a significant amount of rural land. The urban population, largely concentrated around Sevastopol Bay, is 479,394, and the total population is 547,820.

Get in

Getting to Sevastopol

  1. 01
    Sevastopol International Airport
See

Worth seeing

Sevastopol is a good jumping-off place to see some of the sites from the Crimean War. There are also many Soviet war memorials - Sevastopol is one of the thirteen Hero Cities of the Great Patriotic War. There is a large statue of Lenin, with soldiers, peasants and workers, on ulitsa Sovietska, which is the spine of the main section of the city.

  1. 01
    Nakhimov Square
  2. 02
    Count's Landing Stage

    The Count's Landing Stage are the grand sea gates to the city.

  3. 03
    Monument to Catherine II

    The Empress Catherine II of Russia founded Sevastopol in 1783.

  4. 04
    Monument to Lenin
  5. 05
    The Sevastopol Art Museum
Do

Things to do

Ride the ferry boats crossing the bay. Common routes include those to a number of locations on the north side of the town, where the best white sand beach and small airfield are. Locals use these north/south ferries to commute to and from work. The ferries travel all over the city and it is a good way to get photos of the various landmarks. In the summer, there are numerous tented beer bars on the waterfront.

Eat

Where to eat

You should try original and real "Baklava", which is different than the Greek or Turkish versions. European soldiers fighting in the Crimean War coined the term "Baklava" while fighting in Sevastopol and neighbouring Balaklava from the local fried bread coated in honey popular in the region. Hence, the name, Baklava, was imported to the West.

How locals move

Getting around Sevastopol the local way

Share-taxi routes mapped nearby
  • 2 Маршрутка №2: поселок Кальфа - Стрелецкая бухта
  • 13 Маршрутка №13: пл. Восставших - пл. Нахимова · ООО Федчишен""
  • 13а Маршрутка №13а: 5-й км - Хлебокомбинат - пл. Нахимова · ООО Федчишен""
  • 25 Маршрутка №25: п. Кальфа - пл. Ластовая · ООО Севтранстрест""
  • 26 Маршрутка 26: Посёлок Кальфа → Улица Генерала Жидилова · ООО Севтранстрест""
  • 28 Маршрутка №28: Троицкая балка - Малахов курган · ООО Севтранстрест""
  • 28 Маршрутка №28: Малахов курган - Троицкая балка · ООО Севтранстрест""
  • 29 Маршрутка №29: п. Кальфа - ул. Станковича · ООО Евротранс""
  • 31 Маршрутка №31: ул. Станковича - пл. Нахимова · ООО Евротранс""
  • 35 Маршрутка №35: 2-е отделение Золотой Балки - Казачья бухта
  • 35 Маршрутка №35: Казачья бухта - 2-е отделение Золотой Балки
  • 36 Маршрутка 36: Площадь Захарова → Кача

OpenStreetMap contributors.

  • Get aroundGetting around Sevastopol, on a day to day basis, can be done by foot, by mini-bus (marshrutka), and by city bus.
  • Get aroundBuses and marshrutkas are economical, though often crowded, with marshrutkas being faster and slightly more expensive.
  • Go nextYou can get there by taking the ferry (parom in Russian) from the city center to Severnaya and then a short ride by marshrutka.

From Wikivoyage: Sevastopol, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

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