Travel around the Rostov region
This trip was made a very long time ago, and in the near future I plan to repeat it. It consisted of one-day trips to the cities of the Rostov region from Novocherkassk.
So, Novocherkassk.
I have a special relationship to this city, this is the city of my childhood. I still remember the vineyard leaves falling from the heat, the indescribable coloring of narrow streets with one and a half floors in houses (this is when the window of a one and a half storey is at the level of your feet). like this.
Novocherkassk is the capital of the Don Cossacks. It is here on 07/12/1997. the acceptance of the Cossacks for civil service took place, thanks to the presidential decree. The spectacle was very impressive.
Accordingly, the main attractions of the city are the Ascension Cathedral.
The square on which the cathedral stands, paved, as in antiquity, with cobblestones, and surrounded on 4 sides by monuments. Yermak the conqueror of Siberia, Ataman Baklanov, the hero of the Caucasian War, the monument “Consent and Reconciliation” (as you know, during the Civil War some of the Cossacks went to the Red Army, and some remained with the Whites. Around the monument there are memorial plates with the names of all the Cossack troops of Russia and the Near Abroad, and the following words are written on the memorial plate in front of the monument: “In the name of memory of the past. In the name of the present and future Cossacks we came to reconciliation and agreement. Thank God that we are Cossacks. “) And the monument to the ataman Count Platov, the founder of Novocherkassk in 1805.
Museum of the Don Cossacks. One of my favorite museums. It reflects the whole history of Novocherkassk and the Don Cossacks in different eras, including the Great Patriotic War. All historical finds ever found on this land, flora and fauna, and even tusks and the skull of a mammoth.
There are still many monuments in the city, there are also Afghan soldiers: parks, alleys (the main alley goes through the whole city), an open-air water park, an indoor skating rink, a stadium. But the main theme of the city is the Cossacks, and it is all permeated with its history.
It is difficult for a city dweller of a large metropolis to perceive one-story houses with chicken coops and vegetable gardens in the yards, goats on the lawns, apricot and cherry trees. This is how I remember him from childhood. Now it is a modern city with multi-storey buildings, but still retained its primitive flavor.
Rostov-on-Don.
You want to return to this city again and again. It is changing all the time, a lot of new things appear, and it is not known what it will surprise you this time. First of all, you should visit the Museum of Local Lore. There, the eternal keepers of time, the curators of the museum, will tell you the history of Rostov, interesting stories of the origin of the exhibits, and they will just have a nice conversation. The museum is multi-storey, with a large number of halls, each with its own history. There is also a planetarium that did not work.
Rostov has a very picturesque embankment. Part of the city’s life is concentrated there. There is the River Station, from which, along the rivers, you can even get to Moscow.
All these photos were taken on the embankment, part of it is framed by Shevchenko’s works.
Fortress lane in Rostov is a part of ancient history.
You should definitely take a walk along B. Sadovaya Street and see Teatralnaya Square.
Rostov is a very contrasting city, where you can see courtyards with vegetable gardens and large high-rise buildings in different parts of the city.
It is worth visiting the large zoo with children, with aquariums, crocodiles, a rhinoceros and the biggest bear I have ever seen, and by the way, an elephant was being built.
There, by the way, during the Second World War, the Germans stood, and at the cost of incredible efforts some of the animals were saved, they also sheltered the wounded there for a long time and the Germans did not find out about it … There is also a circus, a dolphinarium, an indoor modern water park, amusement parks in the city.
Azov.
Azov is the key to the sea. Having climbed onto the Turkish shaft you see ancient cannons and the Don below. Here the Cossacks fought with the Turks for access to the sea. Peter 1 understood its important strategic position, and the city passed from hand to hand more than once.
Azov is a quiet, cozy city, with many monuments reflecting its ancient history, museums, and quiet green streets. The powder cellar is the only monument of military engineering art of the 18th century preserved in the South of Russia. It shows the history of firearms, and a diorama of the assault on Azov in 1696. …
Here we saw a house with a thatched (reed) roof; there are no such houses left.
Taganrog.
Taganrog was founded in 1698 by Peter the Great and became the first naval base in Russia, the first Russian port on the open sea coast and the first city in Russia built according to a regular plan. The proud monument to Peter testifies to his undeniable contribution to this cause. The monument is bordered by cannons. speaking about the formidable power of the Russian state.
The sea within the city seemed to me dirty and shallow. And in my opinion in this city there was the cheapest travel by transport. The town is very calm and green. There are many monuments, museums and parks. There is a famous stone staircase. In 2008, a monument to F. Ranevskaya.
Starocherkassk.
We got here along the Don, on a meteor.
It seemed to me like an open-air museum. There are places on the Don land where the history of past centuries, reflected in beautiful monuments, the creations of the mind and hands of talented Russian people, appears before us. This is the village of Starocherkasskaya. It was once called the city of Cherkassk and was the capital of the free Don Cossacks. The city got its name from the Cossacks-Zaporozhians – Cherkas, who founded Cherkassk in about 1570.
The outskirts of Starocherkassk are rich in history: Anninskaya fortress, Monastyrskoe tract – monuments of the glorious past of the Don Cossacks. They are located not far from Starocherkasskaya, and there is an old Cossack kuren in it.
Here you physically feel the breath of history, hear the voices of people who died long ago. History is captured here in stone and legends.
The Resurrection Cathedral. It was founded by Peter 1 with his personal participation. The stones of this cathedral remember A.S. Pushkin, he was interested in the history of the Don Cossacks and other famous people.
Stepan Razin and the future ataman and founder of Novocherkassk M. Platov were born in Cherkassk.
There, on the wall of the house, the Seal of the Don army is depicted: a naked Cossack riding a barrel, but with a saber. No matter how drunk the Cossack is, he will not drink his weapon.
In such a place, you especially strongly feel the strength of the spirit of the Russian people, as it reveals itself to you in stone, legends, the breath of the wind.
Tanais.
As a great lover of ancient excavations, Tanais impressed me with the scale and volume of archaeological research and the material obtained. At that time, much of what was found had not yet been published, and filming was strictly prohibited.
Tanais is an ancient city (III century BC – V century AD) at the mouth of the river. Don: This is the northernmost point of the ancient Greek civilization, as evidenced by the remains of structures made of ancient shell rock.
The Tanais Nature Reserve is one of the largest archaeological museum-reserves in Russia. The territory of the reserve has more than 3 thousand hectares and unites an ensemble of historical and cultural monuments of different times and peoples from the Paleolithic era to the monuments of residential and religious architecture of the XIX century. Tanais was founded in the III century. BC e. Greeks. It was a large center of the Azov region, and at the beginning of the 5th century AD. e. came to desolation.
At different times, the city was owned by Italians, Turks, Genoese, who built a Genoese fortress here, Polovtsians, and in 1395 Tamerlane razed it to the ground. In 1823 Nicholas 1 became interested in the treasures of the mounds and ordered excavations. The Museum-Reserve appeared in 1961 and is now a candidate for the list UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
A wonderful place to touch (in the literal sense) history. See how they lived, what they ate from, what they thought about in those days. There is a recreated hut, with utensils and a couch. Models of ancient fortresses. All finds are presented in the museum. You can just walk among the ruins and feel the breath of history.
