february 10, 1784, empress catherine ii ordered to build the city of sevastopol on the site of the akhtiyarortress, where the vert admiralty should be for the first rank of ships, the port and the military settlement, the nominal decree was addressed to the general -governor, prince gregory of yekaterinoslav and tauride, then cinema, the decree has been preserved date, of course, according to the old style, by that time the peninsula, the crimea was included in the russian empire, the best place for the city, they found in the bay near the tatar village of akhtiyar, according to admiral fedot klokachev, there was no other such convenient harbor in all of europe and it could accommodate the fetus up to steel ships. who came up with the name sevastopol is unknown, but in greek, sibastos means sacred or worthy of worship, sevastopol became the main base of the russian black sea fleet and the city of russian glory on february 10, 1962, the ussr and the usa exchanged scouts, new york gave the soviet illegal immigrant william fisher to the americans, he called himself colonel rudolf abel, and mos