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Novorossiysk is a city of about 262,000 people in Krasnodar Krai on Tsemes Bay of the Black Sea, and its port is one of the largest on the Black Sea. For its defence in the Second World War it was named a Hero City in 1973, and the hills around it are known for the wines of nearby Abrau-Dyurso.
In antiquity the shores of the bay held the Greek colony of Bata, and Genoese merchants traded here in the 13th century. Novorossiysk became a city in 1866 and the capital of the Black Sea Governorate in 1896. In 1920 the White Army fled from its port, and in 1943 Soviet troops held Malaya Zemlya for 225 days.
Visitors walk the Admiral Serebryakov Embankment past its monuments to the cruiser Mikhail Kutuzov, then see Heroes' Square with its eternal flame. The Malaya Zemlya Memorial on the shore, Sovetov Street and the Assumption Cathedral show the story of the city.
Tsemes Bay is the ice-free bay of the Black Sea on which Novorossiysk stands, named after the Tsemes River and framed by the Markotkh Ridge and the Abrau Peninsula. Medieval Italian maps called it Calo-Limena, the beautiful bay, and it became part of the Russian Empire in 1829.
The Admiral Serebryakov Embankment is the seafront of Novorossiysk on Tsemes Bay and one of the main sights of the city, lined with many monuments. During its rebuilding it gained the Sea Glory of Russia stele in 2007, then the anchovy monument in 2017 and a monument to the port workers in 2018.
The Cruiser Mikhail Kutuzov is a Soviet project 68-bis cruiser, launched in Nikolaev in 1952 and in service with the Black Sea Fleet from 1954. Since 2002 it has been a museum ship moored for good in the port of Novorossiysk, as a branch of the Central Naval Museum named after Peter the Great.
The Founders of Novorossiysk Monument honours the admirals Mikhail Lazarev and Lazar Serebryakov and the general Nikolai Raevsky, founders of the city. It was unveiled on the shore of Tsemes Bay on Russia Day, 12 June 2007, and was designed together with the Sea Glory of Russia stele.
The Malaya Zemlya Memorial in Novorossiysk stands on the shore where Major Tsezar Kunikov's volunteers landed on the night of 4 February 1943 and held a bridgehead for 225 days. Built in 1982 as a federal monument, its centre is a stylised landing ship with soldiers surging forward on its sides.
Heroes' Square is the central memorial park of Novorossiysk on the west shore of Tsemes Bay, where the city began, named in 1943 after the heroes of the war. An eternal flame has burned here since 1958, and since 1960 the Novorossiysk Chimes written by Dmitri Shostakovich have sounded every hour.
The Seamen of the Revolution Monument, opened in 1980 by the Sukhumi Highway in Novorossiysk, recalls the Black Sea Fleet ships scuttled in Tsemes Bay on 18 June 1918 rather than given to Germany. A 12-metre granite sailor kneels above the road, and by the sea pointers show where they went down.
The Black Sea Sailors Monument in Novorossiysk was unveiled on 14 September 1968 in honour of the heroic sailors of the Black Sea Fleet. Its pedestal is shaped as a steep wave on which a fast boat is racing, and the people of the city more often call it simply the boat monument.
Sovetov Street is the main street of Novorossiysk, where the chief public buildings of the city were built, and until 1920 it was called Serebryakovskaya. A green boulevard runs along its first half, including Pushkin Square, and it passes Lenin Square and Freedom Square, the scene of parades.
The Novorossiysk Assumption Cathedral is an Orthodox church in the centre of the city, begun in 1900 on the corner of a new cemetery and finished at the end of 1904, then consecrated on 20 February 1905. It is a protected monument of town planning and architecture of the early 20th century.
The Novorossiysk Sea Port on the ice-free Tsemes Bay is one of the largest ports of the Black Sea and the largest in Russia by cargo, with the longest line of berths of any Russian port at 8.3 kilometres. Rebuilt by 1950 after the war, it has the Sheskharis oil harbour and a sea passenger terminal.
The Sudzhuk Spit is a natural monument within Novorossiysk on the south-west side of Tsemes Bay, two branches of shingle and sand that enclose a 30-hectare lagoon. Named after the Turkish fortress of Sudzhuk-Kale, it was built up by the waves and is a popular place to rest, with two beaches.
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