Holland is a historic locality in Sevastopol on the North side , as well as a beam and a bay adjacent to it in the water area of the Big Sevastopol bay (between Doka Bay and Sukharnaya Bay , opposite Kilen Bay ).
Holland | |
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View of Holland from Sevastopol Bay | |
City | Sevastopol |
The administrative district of the city | Nakhimov district |
First mention | early nineteenth century |
The area, and behind it the bay, was named after the New Holland in St. Petersburg , in which, under Peter the Great, there was a forest warehouse for the repair and construction of ships. Here, at the beginning of the XIX century , forest warehouses were also arranged. The Kronstadt sailors participated in the construction of the Sevastopol warehouses and kept the Petersburg name of Holland behind them. Later this place becomes popular for country walks, summer cottages appear.
Admiral G. Chukhnin , the commander of the Black Sea Fleet of Russia , was killed here in the garden at his summer cottage on June 28, 1906 . He was shot dead for suppressing the Sevastopol uprising of 1905 by the sentence of the Socialist Revolutionary Party sailor Ya. S. Akimov.
The construction of the buildings of the Sevastopol Naval Cadet Corps began in the eastern slope of the Holland gully in 1911 and was completed only in 1960 as a complex of buildings of the Higher Naval Engineering School (SVVMIU) . In 1996, this school was transformed into the Sevastopol Institute of Nuclear Energy and Industry (SISEI), later renamed the Sevastopol National University of Nuclear Energy and Industry (SNUNEIP). The operating IR-100 research nuclear reactor, formerly owned by the Sevastopol Higher Naval Engineering School and now part of SNUNE & P, is located in Holland.
In the area of Holland there are about 80 underground casemates in which ammunition is stored. In 1941-1942, an underground hospital was built there.
In Holland, there is a degaussing station for military ship hulls. The monument to the founders of the method Igor Vasilievich Kurchatov and Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov is located on the embankment. The main street is named Kurchatov.
It has two-way communication with boats from the Grafskaya quay , boats from Inkerman go through Holland. Buses and route taxis No. 46 from Zakharov Square , the central one on the North side, and No. 56 from Radiogorki, go to Holland. Some flights of the bus route number 106 North - Inkerman go to Holland.
Literature
- Sevastopol: walks around the city. Sevastopol: Biblex, 2005. p. 50-51. ISBN 966-8231-34-1