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Taganrog

Rostov Oblast, Russia
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About Taganrog

Taganrog is a port city in Rostov Oblast, Russia, located at the north shore of the Taganrog Bay in the Sea of Azov, several kilometers west of the mouth of the Don River. The history of the city goes back to overdue Bronze Age – early Iron Age among the 20th and 10th centuries BCE, while it become the earliest Greek agreement within the northwestern Black Sea Region, and become cited with the aid of the Greek historian Herodotus as Emporion Kremnoi. Taganrog become officially based by using Peter the Great on September 12, 1698. The first Russian Navy base, it hosted the Azov Flotilla of Catherine the Great 1770 –1783, which finally have become the Russian Black Sea Fleet. Taganrog was granted metropolis repute in 1775.
By the quit of the 18th century, Taganrog had misplaced its importance as a navy base after Crimea and the complete Sea of Azov had been absorbed into the Russian Empire. In 1802, Tsar Alexander I granted the metropolis special reputation, which lasted until 1887. In 1825, the Alexander I Palace in Taganrog changed into used because the Tsar's summer time house, in which he died in November 1825. Taganrog became vital as a industrial port, used for the import and export of grain through the end of the 19th century till the early 20th century. Industrialization improved in the city when Belgian and German buyers founded a boiler factory, an iron and metal foundry, a leather-based manufacturing facility and an oil press manufacturing unit. By 1911, 15 foreign consulates had opened in the city.
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