Rostov-on-Don

• Rostov-on-Don Airport
• How to get to the airport
• Useful phones
• Interesting places to visit
• Day of the city

Rostov-on-Don Airport

• Address: 344066, Rostov-on-Don, Sholohov avenue, 270/1
• Telephone: +7(863) 276-71-10
• Inquiry desk in airport: +7(863)276-78-38, +7(863)254-88-01
• Airport hotel: +7(863) 276-78-94
• Health unit (air terminal): +7(863) 276-75-03
• E-mail: airport1@rndavia.ru

How to get to the airport

Useful phones

Interesting places to visit

1. Voroshilov bridge

   It’s a bridge that divide city on the Right and Left banks, it is a frontier between Europe and Asia. Perhaps, that is why people who live in Rostov work as in Europe and rest on a noble Asian scale. On the Left bank, in Russian “Las-Vegas”, there are more than 100 restaurants, cafes, casinos, camps and hotels. Left bank is famous for its inimitable Caucasian-Don cuisine, for its lamb meat and salmon shashlik, crawfish and real Cossack fish soup. Now it’s an affair of honour of Rostov citizens to feast guests in a ship-restaurant “Petrovskiy berth”. According to a legend, that is the place where Peter the Great and his soldiers had dinner and gathered strength before capturing of Azov fortress.

2. Musical theatre

   Musical theatre is one of the largest theatres in the world. Simultaneously three troupes can work on its stage – opera, ballet and operetta. A unique building of white marble was built specially for the theatre and in a short period it became city’s symbol. Nothing of the kind was built in Russia for more than 20 years. Theatre’s exterior is unusual, it resembles a huge piano with an open cover or a white leg-of-mutton sail on Don waive.

3. Recreational zone “Park named after Maxim Gorkiy”

   Recreational zone “Park named after Maxim Gorkiy” is a central city park. It is a traditional place of public festivals in holidays. You can find an exhibition hall “Experiment”, cinema “Russia”, Kim Nazaretov centre, chess pavilion, out-of-door museum (wooden sculptures of artists V.Vitohin and S.Sekretev on A.Pushkin and M.Gorkiy fairy tales), leisure-time entertainments, cafes and restaurants, summer stage on the territory of the Park.

4. "Gorkiy theatre"

   Rostov academic drama theatre is one of the oldest on the South of Russia. Real worshippers of Rostov drama make chronology since the 4th of July 1863, the first constant troupe of entrepreneur F.Nadler began to exist with its performance of N.Gogol’s “Inspector” where M.Shepkin took part. That is the troupe for which the first stone building was constructed. In 1929 Council of national commissariat made a decision to begin construction of the new building for the theatre. The theatre was to become the first international testing theatre laboratory. On the 28th of 1935 there was a ceremonial opening of the theatre, which was named after Maksim Gorkiy. The building of the theatre immediately became not only country’s but also world’s architectural sightseeing. In London Memorial Museum, in section “Russian architecture” there are only two exhibits – Vasiliy Beatus Cathedral and a miniature of Drama theatre in Rostov-on-Don.

5. Historical Museum of Don Cossacks

   Historical Museum of Don Cossacks is a unique museum collection because it is the only one Cossacks’ museum in Russia and abroad which is open to the visit of everybody. Nowadays the museum has 120 thousand exhibits in its fixed storage. It has very interesting collections of troop and regimental banners of XVIII-XIX centuries, Cossack’s military and casual clothes of the XIX-beginning of XX centuries, rewarded, granted weapon, as well as of a blank weapon and firing arms, letters of grant, documents of troop’s clerical office and village administration, a large collection of paintings (one of the largest and most important in Rostov region): Don portrait of the end of XVIII-beginning of XIX centuries, portraits of ordered cossack chieftains of Don troops; military Cossack portrait; collection of mobile painters; emperor’s portraits and art of western Europe. There are rare funds of books and newspapers. The museum represents a museum complex, which includes branches besides main display rooms: memorial museum houses of painters M.B.Grekov, I.I.Krilov, poet V.Kalmikov. In 1999 a monument of architecture of the XIX century - Cossack chieftain palace – was handed over to the museum.

6. Rostov dolphinarium

   In Rostov dolphinarium performances for children and adults are held. Dolphins and fur seals take part in the program. There are four fur seals, four adult dolphins and two calves. Trainers of fur seals also perform in the dolphinarium, they are nice and interesting in their own way. And tricks that a trainer makes with dolphins boggle imagination. A trainer dives and two dolphins take her under water and lift her gracefully, quickly and solemnly on their spouts like a statue under domes of the dolphinarium. Dolphins make different tricks on the bottom and on the water surface. Well, that is not amusing. Communication with such wonderful animals gives a pleasant feeling.

7. The Botanic Gardens

   The Botanic Gardens in Rostov State University, which is placed on the north-west of the city, in the area of river Temernik, was the first huge bare area on the south-east of Russia. In the period of 75 years of its existence the Botanic Gardens became one of the biggest in Russia training, resource, informational and cultural centers. Nowadays it covers an area of more than 160.5 hectares with different relieves, soils and plants. This unique natural monument within a huge megalopolis is interesting for more than 6500 species of trees, bushes and herbaceous plants. The size of flora collection, which is gathered in a greenhouse of tropical and subtropical plants, reaches almost 1600 species and forms from Africa, South-Western Asia, Northern and Southern America, Australia. There is a mineral spring with high flow rate of potable water of medicated type, which is worshiped as an orthodox relic and which is named after Reverend Serafim Sarovskiy, on the territory of the Gardens.

8. Rostov cathedral church of Holy virgin theotokos birth, in front of which there is a monument to Dmitry Donskoy

   Rostov cathedral church of Holy virgin theotokos birth (1885) with a bell tower is a monument of the 19 century, built on the basis of the project of a famous Russian architect K.A.Ton. This architect was famous in Russia mostly as an originator of a project of Christ Ransomer temple, Big Kremlin Palace, Armoury in Moscow and as a founder of the Russian-Byzantine style in church architecture. White as snow cathedral is decorated with massy golden domes, and due to this fact it is a centre of the city’s architectural complex. In 1878 four stage bell tower was erected according to the project of architect Kampioni and it was destroyed in the 40-50-s years of the XX century. Then in the year 1999, the bell tower was reconstructed in its original view. Cathedral church is the main temple of Rostov Eparchy. Here there is a pontificals throne of Rostov and Novocherkask archbishop Panteleimon, as well as diocesan administration.

9. Rostov Zoo

   One of the most popular places for children’s and adults’ leisure time is Rostov Zoo – with the largest territory in Russia (56 hectares) and one of the biggest in Europe. Here more than 400 species of animals and birds live (including 180 species which are registered in the Red Data Book). Rostov Zoo is a fabulous world of animals of five continents. Of course, there are typical animals for any zoo here: bears, wolves, hippopotamus, monkeys, lions and tigers. There are also such rare animals as white rhinoceros, giraffes of Rotshild, a large collection of cranes. But, besides, there is the largest in Russia collection of anthropoid apes, which include lars, chimpanzee, orang-outangs and gorillas in Rostov zoo . Rostov zoo takes one of the first places in Europe in breeding of ernes. There is also a section of aquariums in the zoo, where you can find the various habitants of subwater world – from fish of Don region to rare freshwater skates and crabs form South America. There are crocodiles of South-Eastern Asia, different turtles, snakes of Middle Asia, Africa, America and other exotic reptiles in terrarium.

10. Children’s art gallery

    There is the first in Russia Children’s art gallery in Rostov-on-Don, which has opened its doors for visitors in November, 1981, and became an integral part of cultural life and history of the capital of Don region. During 22 years of its existence Children’s art gallery exposed in its halls more than 300 exhibits, and more than 2500 works of paintings, graphic arts and arts and crafts are stored in its funds. Children’s art gallery organizes numerous competitions of children’s, adolescents’ and students’ art on the basis of its main expositional and exhibitional activity. This allows to propagandize art and aesthetical education mostly effective and to support talented children.