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 Rostov-na-Donu. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
1,019,000), capital of Rostov region and the administrative center of the North Caucasus district, SE European Russia, on the Don River near its entrance into the Sea of Azov.
Chartered in 1797, it was named Rostov-na-Donu to distinguish it from the older city of Rostov.
It grew rapidly after the opening of its port in 1834 and was a major grain-exporting center throughout the 19th cent.
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 Rostov-on-Don - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was named after Saint Dimitry of Rostov, a newly-glorified bishop from the old Northern town Rostov the Great.
As Azov gradually declined, a settlement near the new fortress superseded it in importance as a chief commercial centre of the region.
By 1928, the regional government was moved from the old Cossack capital Novocherkassk to Rostov, which also engulfed the nearby Armenian town of Nakhichevan-on-Don.
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 Rostov-na-Donu
Capital of Rostov oblast (region), southwestern Russian Federation; population (1996 est) 1,025,000.
Rostov is home to many large engineering concerns manufacturing chemicals, agricultural machinery, aircraft, and ships; there are also tobacco and food-processing plants, shoe factories, and textile mills.
Rostov-on-Don is the most important cultural centre of northern Caucasia and the surrounding regions, in particular as the focus for the revival of Don Cossack culture.
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 The School of Russian and Asian Studies: Regions & Cities: European Russia (Southern): Rostov-na-Donu
Runaway serfs, paupers, and dissidents settled the Rostov Region in the fifteenth century.
Officially chartered in 1797, it was renamed Rostov-na-Donu to distinguish it from the older city of Rostov in northern Russia.
Also, the Rostov region is the native land of Anton Chekhov and Mikhail Sholokhov, winner of the Noble Prize for Literature.
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 Rostov-na-Donu
Rostov on Don (Russian: Rostov-na-Donu, Cyrillic Ðîñòî́â-íà-Äîíó́) is the capital of Rostov oblast, in the Northern Caucasus district of Russia, located at the Don river near the Sea of Azov.
It is known as the "Gateway to the Caucasus" due to its geographical location, and its population is fairly diverse in comparison to regions in northern Russia.
Numerous start-up companies have established headquarters in Rostov, the median income is increasing, and the city is being transformed from a place thrown back in time by the collapse of Communism into a modern, industrial and technology-rich hub.
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 Search Results for Rostov - Encyclopædia Britannica
It occupies an area of 38,900 square miles (100,800 square km) athwart the lower Don and Manych rivers.
Founded in 1686 as a Cossack settlement, it became a city in 1927.
It lies on the northern coast of Taganrog Gulf of the Sea of Azov.
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 Russia
In a related move, Don Cossack Ataman and Rostov Deputy Governor Viktor Vodolatskiy sent a letter to the Russian president demanding that the NPP not be brought on line.
The Rostov nuclear power plant is considered "a time bomb" because of its proximity to the city Volgodonsk and its location in an unstable geological area on the Tsimlyanskoye reservoir.
The Chairman of the Council of Deputies of the Rostov region, Mr.
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 IREX - International Research & Exchanges Board
Sokolyuk has made progress for Rostov’s disabled population which is unparalleled in all of southern Russia.
The Rostov Oblast administration estimates that over 65,000 residents of Rostov-na-Don suffer from physical disability, while the oblast-wide number is estimated at over 300,000.
One of our goals now is to have every church in Rostov handicapped-accessible by the end of the year.” Significant process has already been made by “Feniks” in cooperation with the Rostov city administration in their effort to make public buildings, shops and restaurants accessible to the disabled.
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 Rostov-na-Donu --  Encyclopædia Britannica
English Rostov-on-don city and administrative centre of Rostov oblast (province), southwestern Russia.
It was founded in 1749 as the customs post of Temernika, when the river mouth was still in Turkish hands; it then became a flourishing trade centre.
It is a transport centre in the northern Caucasus and a main rail junction, with railway shops and freight yards: over 20 percent of the labour force is in transportation.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9064168?tocId=9064168   (749 words)

  
 Re: Adoptions from Rostov na Donu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
In Reply to: Re: Adoptions from Rostov na Donu posted by paul on November 13, 1999 at 05:53:09:
The agency I used was not good and their facilitators in Moscow (that accompanied me to Rostov) were basically thieves.
However, there is a man in Rostov, Alexi (he's a doctor), whose wife works with the orphanage.
www.russianadoption.org /Russian_Adoption_General_Discussion/messages/762.html   (553 words)

  
 Re: Adoptions from Rostov na Donu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
In Reply to: Adoptions from Rostov na Donu posted by Elaine on November 02, 1999 at 12:04:41:
We are looking for 7,8,9 year old girls to adopt, and would enjoy going back to Rostov.
Re: Adoptions from Rostov na Donu Elaine 10:26:03 11/15/99 (
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 The Tyrkova-Williams Collection
Rostov, B. Pochemu i kak sozdalas' Dobrovol'cheskaia Armiia i za chto ona boretsia ([Rostov na Donu]: [b.i.], 1919)
Prikaz Glavnokomanduiushchago Vooruzhennymi silami na Iugie Rossii [i.e.
Za synom (perezhitoe) (Rostov na Donu: [b.i.], 1919)
www.bl.uk /collections/easteuropean/tyrkov2.html   (889 words)

  
 UBC - Biographies of Bandurists and Kobzars
Throughout his life he worked at perfecting the art of bandura-playing and wrote a manual, Pidruchnyk hry na banduri (A Manual on Playing the Bandura, 1909; repr 1930, 1992), on the subject.
He also composed a number of songs, including 'Bajda', 'Burya Na Chornomu Mori' (A Storm on the Black Sea), 'Sofron', 'Nechaj' and 'A v poli korchomka' (There's a Tavern in the Field).
A collection of memoirs, photographs, press clippings, and articles about or in praise of him was published was published in 1961 as Vasyl' Yemets': U zolote 50-richchya NA sluzhbi Ukrayini (Vasyl Yemetz: On His Golden 50th Anniversary of Serving Ukraine).
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 Union of Councils for Soviet Jews: Skinheads Driving Foreign Students Away From Rostov na Donu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Foreign students are being driven away from Rostov na Donu by constant skinhead attacks, according to the May 7, 2004 edition of the local newspaper “Molot.” The article describes the typical story of a foreign student in Rostov:
“Pravim came to Rostov na Donu from India two years ago.
Of the 98 people who came recently to study in the Rostov State Medical University, 48 left immediately as soon as they had encounters with hatred and cruelty.
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 Called to Serve in Russia
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Rostov's tramway is the only one in Russia built to the European standard gauge of 1435 mm.
LDS Church News - Rostov missionaries tie quilts
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 Rostov-na-Donu, Russia, Pictures
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Situated on a high bank of the Don River near its mouth on the Sea of Azov, the city is an important commercial, industrial, and transportation center.
From below it, a canal runs straight to the see, flanked by some of Peterhof's 140 fountains sparkling in the sun."
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