include Yevgeny Vuchetich, Seyran Khatlamajyan, Ashot Melkonian, Natalia Duritskaya, Martiros Saryan (1880–1972), Roman Chatov (1900–1987), Leonid Eberg (1882–1954), and Lev Eberg (1907–1982). Scientists and adventurers Scientists and explorers include, doctors N. Bogoraz and S. Fedosov, scientists Dmitri Mendeleev, A. S. Popov, I. P. Pavlov, George Sedov the Arctic Sea explorer, Yakov Frenkel (1894–1952) a solid-state physicist, Svyatoslav Fyodorov (1927–2000), ophthalmologist, Sabina Spielrein (1885–1942), psychoanalyst, Yuri Oganessian (a nuclear physicist who is the namesake of oganesson (element 118)). Other Vladimir Shumeyko (1945), political figure Svetlana Boyko (1972), foil fencer Anatoly Morozov (1973), professional association football player and coach Alexei Eremenko (1983), Russian-born Finnish professional association football player who currently plays in Kazakhstan Victoria Lopyreva (1983), model and popular television hostess Tatiana Kotova (1985), beauty pageant titleholder Andrei Chikatilo (1936–94), serial killer Ivan Bukavshin (1995–2016), chess grandmaster Iosif Vorovich (1920–2001), mathematician, academician, full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Tourism Central Market, local bazaars and fresh fish markets Bridges over the Don river and Don Embankment Don River lookout Armenian Holy Cross Church Rostovchanka statue River Steamboat rides Orthodox Cathedral of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin Pushkinskaya Street Maxim Gorky Park Traditional Cossack villages (stanitsas) National Sholokhov Museum-Reserve Azov ancient fortress Rostov circus Rostov state opera and ballet theatre Monastery of St. Jacob Rostov Zoo Museum of North Caucasus Railway Botanical Garden of Southern Federal University Art Gallery 16th Line Alexander Column Grigory and Aksinya in a boat Park of Aviators October Park Anatoly Sobino Park Historic buildings Argutinsky-Dolgorukov House Bahchisaraytsev House Bostrikiny House Chernov House Chernova House Chirikov House F. N. Solodov House Gavala House Gayrabetov Mansion Gench-Ogluev House Gymnasium №36 Ivan Zvorykin House Kechekyan Mansion Kisin House Kostanayev House Kostin House Kramer Mansion Krasilnikov Mansion Kushnarev House Leonidov House Lyakhmayer House Lyceum № 13 Main building of Warsaw University Maksimov House Martyn Brothers House Masalitina House N. A. Semashko City Hospital No. 1 North Caucasus Railway Administration Building Paramonov Mansion Paramonov Mill Paramonov Warehouses Petrov Mansion Pivovarova House Popov Mansion Reznichenko House Sariyev House Shirman House Spielrein Mansion Trunov House Twin towns/sister cities Rostov-on-Don is twinned with: Antalya, Turkey Dortmund, Germany Gera, Germany Donetsk, Ukraine Glasgow, Scotland Kajaani, Finland Le Mans, France Minsk, Belarus Mobile, United States Pleven, Bulgaria Seville, Spain Volos, Greece Yantai, China Yerevan, Armenia Toronto, Canada Gallery References Sources Bibliography External links Official website of Rostov-on-Don Don Host Oblast Populated places established in 1749 History