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Sevastopol

44.60°N 33.52°E2 titles

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What happened here

Home of the Black Sea Fleet, which Admiral Alexander Kolchak commanded in 1916 and 1917, Sevastopol was besieged by Manstein's Eleventh Army from October 1941. The defenders, including the sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko, held out for 250 days until the fortress fell on 4 July 1942 under massive artillery fire. The Red Army retook the city on 9 May 1944.

Films and series set in Sevastopol

  1. Admiral

    2008 · Film

    Here in the story

    1. Base

      Now commanding the Black Sea Fleet, Kolchak faces a revolution that reaches his own ships and his own officers.

  2. Battle for Sevastopol

    2015 · Film

    Here in the story

    1. Battle

      In the besieged naval base she fights a day-long duel with a German sniper and is carried aboard one of the last submarines out.

Events at Sevastopol

  1. Diplomacy

    Yalta Conference

    Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin met in Crimea to plan Germany's defeat and the postwar order. They agreed to divide Germany into occupation zones and found the United Nations, while Soviet influence in Eastern Europe foreshadowed the Cold War.

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