26 Sights in Rostov-on-Don, Russia (with Map and Images)
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List of cities in Russia Sightseeing Tours in Rostov-on-Don1. Александр Суворов
Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov was a Russian general in service of the Russian Empire. He was Count of Rymnik, Count of the Holy Roman Empire, Prince of the Kingdom of Sardinia, Prince of the Russian Empire and the last Generalissimo of the Russian Empire. Suvorov is considered one of the greatest military commanders in Russian history and one of the great generals of the early modern period. He was awarded numerous medals, titles, and honors by Russia, as well as by other countries. Suvorov secured Russia's expanded borders and renewed military prestige and left a legacy of theories on warfare. He was the author of several military manuals, the most famous being The Science of Victory, and was noted for several of his sayings. He never lost a single battle he commanded. Several military academies, monuments, villages, museums, and orders in Russia are dedicated to him.
2. Михаил Ломоносов
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions to literature, education, and science. Among his discoveries were the atmosphere of Venus and the law of conservation of mass in chemical reactions. His spheres of science were natural science, chemistry, physics, mineralogy, history, art, philology, optical devices and others. The founder of modern geology, Lomonosov was also a poet and influenced the formation of the modern Russian literary language.
3. Museum of Russian-Armenian Friendship
The Museum of Russian-Armenian Friendship is a museum in the city of Rostov-on-Don, located in the Armenian church of Surb Khach. The museum was opened on November 14, 1972. The church of Surb Khach, which housed the museum, is one of the surviving buildings of the previously existing monastery. It was built at the end of the XVIII century by Armenian immigrants from the Crimea in memory of the monastery of the same name in the Crimea. The church building is the oldest of the buildings of Rostov-on-Don.
4. Gayrabetov Mansion
The Gayrabetov Mansion is a building in Rostov-on-Don, located on Liberty Square. The house was built in 1880. Initially it belonged to the relatives of merchant Karp Gayrabetov. At the beginning of the 20th century, the building was acquired by the manufacturer Mark Iskidarov. Since 2011, the Museum of Russian-Armenian Friendship has been located in the mansion. The Gayrabetov Mansion has the status of an object of cultural heritage of regional significance.
5. Доходный дом Степана Акимова
The Stepan Akimov House is an object of cultural heritage of regional significance Rostov-on-Don, which is located at 14 Ulyanovskaya Street. On the facade of the building there is a plaque with information about the owner of the house – Stepan Akimov. Among many residents of the city there is a rumor that this house is connected with the Paramonov family, but this information did not find any official confirmation.
6. Особняк Парамонова
The Paramonov Mansion is a mansion in the city of Rostov-on-Don. It was built in 1914 for book publisher Nikolai Paramonov. The mansion was designed by architect Leonid Aeberg. The building is currently occupied by the Y. A. Zhdanov Scientific Library of Southern Federal University. The design is an example of Neoclassical architecture and is considered to be an architectural monument of federal importance.
7. Солдатская синагога
Soldier Synagogue is the only active synagogue in Rostov-on-Don. It was built in 1872. The synagogue burnt down during the pogrom of 1905, but in 1913-1914 the building was restored. In 1935, the synagogue was closed for worship. After World War II the building was again transferred to the local Jewish community. Soldier Synagogue has the status of an object of cultural heritage of regional significance.
8. Особняк Егора Красильникова
The Krasilnikov Mansion is a building in Rostov-on-Don dating from the last quarter of the 19th century. It was built in the eclectic style for the merchant Yegor Krasilnikov. The building is located at the intersection of 1st Mayskaya Street and the 18th Line. It currently houses an antenatal clinic. The Krasilnikov Mansion has the status of an object of cultural heritage of regional significance.
9. Ботанический сад ЮФУ
Southern Federal University's botanical garden is located in the North-Western part in Rostov-on-Don, in the Temernik river valley. It's the first botanical garden in the vast territory of the treeless zone in the South of Russia. There is a mineral spring called St. Seraphim of Sarov on the territory of the garden, which is presented by the Directorate of the garden as an Orthodox shrine.
Wikipedia: Southern Federal University's botanical garden (EN), Website
10. Особняк Л. Попова
The Popov Mansion is a building in Rostov-on-Don located on Karl Marx Square. The house was built in 1890 — 1891 and belonged to the landowner and cattle dealer Lusegen Popov. In 1928, a maternity hospital was housed in the mansion. It closed for reconstruction in 2012, and reopened in 2014. The Popov Mansion has the status of an object of cultural heritage of regional significance.
11. Дом Врангеля
Wrangel Mansion is a building in Rostov-on-Don, built in 1885 by architect Nikolay Doroshenko. In this house Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, one of the main leaders of the White Movement, spent his childhood and youth years. Wrangel Mansion has the status of an object of cultural heritage of regional significance. At present, the building is in poor condition and needs to be repaired.
12. Памятник стачке 1902 года
Monument to the Stoke 1902-a memorial complex in the Rostov-on-Don railway area. Installed at the site of crowded rallies during the November strike of 1902. The memorial complex includes the 1967 high relief and the sculptural composition “Continuity of generations”, opened in 1975. The monument has the status of an object of cultural heritage of regional significance.
13. Особняк Ф.С.Кечекьяна
The Kechekyan Mansion is a building in Rostov-on-Don located at Liberty Square. It was constructed in the third quarter of the 19th century on the central square of the city of Nakhichevan-on-Don. The mansion is currently occupied by the A. S. Pushkin Children's Library. The building has the status of an object of cultural heritage of regional significance.
14. Особняк Петрова
The Petrov Mansion is a building in Rostov-on-Don, at 115 Pushkinskaya Street. The house was built at the end of the 19th century, to the design of the Rostov architect Nikolai Doroshenko. Since 1959 the mansion has housed the Rostov Regional Museum of Fine Arts. The building has the status of an object of cultural heritage of regional significance.
15. Максим Горький
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, popularly known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian writer and socialist political thinker and proponent. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Before his success as an author, he travelled widely across the Russian Empire changing jobs frequently, experiences which would later influence his writing.
16. Доходный дом П. И. Крамера
The Kramer Mansion is a building in Rostov-on-Don, at 114 Pushkinskaya Street. The mansion was built in the 1910 years for the Rostov philanthropist Pavel Ivanovich Kramer. In 1997 the mansion was listed as being of local interest. Since the 2000s, the mansion has housed the restaurant of the Rostov Public Assembly.
17. Доходный дом Е. П. Ляхмаер
The Lyakhmayer House is a building in the Kirovsky District of Rostov-on-Don, Russia. The house is located at 60/1 Ulyanovskaya Street, at its intersection with Voroshilovsky Prospekt. Originally built as a revenue house, the building has the status of an object of cultural heritage of regional significance.
18. Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church,
The Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church Russian: was a Greek Orthodox church constructed in 1909 in Rostov-on-Don. In Soviet times, the church was demolished, and the Puppet Theatre was built on its foundations. A new Greek church of the Annunciation was built close to the site of the demolished one in 2014.
Wikipedia: Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Rostov-on-Don (EN), Website
19. Михаил Шолохов
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov was a Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is known for writing about life and fate of Don Cossacks during the Russian Revolution, the civil war and the period of collectivization, primarily in his most famous novel, And Quiet Flows the Don.
20. Особняк И. А. Супрунова
The Suprunov Mansion is a building in Rostov-on-Don located on Pushkinskaya Street. The mansion was built at the beginning of the 20th century and belonged to the Rostov grain-grower and a stud to Ivan Aleksandrovich Suprunov. The building has the status of an object of cultural heritage of regional value.
21. Особняк Великановой
Velikanova House is a mansion and an architectural monument in the city of Rostov-on-Don, Russia. It was built in 1884—1890 on the project of architects Nikolay Doroshenko and Nikolay Sokolov. Today the building is occupied by Rostov Art College named after M. B. Grekov.
22. Димитрий Ростовский
Demetrius of Rostov was a leading opponent of the Caesaropapist reform of the Russian Orthodox church promoted by Theophan Prokopovich. He is representative of the strong Cossack Baroque influence upon the Russian Orthodox Church at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries.
23. Church of the Intercession
Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin ― one of the oldest churches in Rostov-on-Don. The original building was situated approximately at the corner of Bolshaya Sadovaya street. Over time, it has somewhat shifted towards Bogatyanovsky Lane.
24. Елизавета Романова
The monument to Elizaveta Petrovna is one of the monuments in the city of Rostov-on-Don. Dedicated to the Russian Empress and the founder of the city. Located in the Pokrovsky Square, it was built in 2007 according to the project of Sergey Oleshnya.
Wikipedia: Памятник Елизавете Петровне (Ростов-на-Дону) (RU)
25. Особняк Хатранова
Hatranov’s mansion is an old house in Rostov-on-Don. The building belongs to the monuments of history and culture of regional significance. The mansion was built in the 1890s according to the project of civil engineer Arsen Oganesovich Ter-Akopov.
26. Особняк Сагирова
The Sagirov Mansion is a building in Rostov-on-Don located at Liberty Square. It is constructed in the 1890s on the central square of the city of Nakhchivan-on-Don. The building has the status of an object of cultural heritage of regional value.
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