Rostov

Definition: Rostov

Rostov

Noun

1. A seaport on the Don River near the Sea of Azov in the European part of Russia.

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Date "Rostov" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)

Synonyms: Rostov

Books

• The Lives of the Holy Apostles: Saints Peter, Paul, Andrew, James ... from the Menology of St. Dimitri of Rostov in Russian and the Great Synaxariste (reference)

• The three hierarchs : from the menology of St. Dimitri of Rostov, in Russian (reference)

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TSerkov' Ioanna Bogoslova na Ishnie v 3 verstakh ot Rostova. Rostov Velikii. Credit: Library of Congress.

Vid na Kreml' s berega ozera Nero. Rostov Velikii. Credit: Library of Congress.

Vodosviatnaia chasha khudozhestvennoi chekannoi raboty XVI vieka. Muz. opisi No. 2670. V Rostovskom muzeie. Rostov Velikii. Credit: Library of Congress.

Kamennoe zdanie glubokoi drevnosti v sadu Rostovskago Kremlia, kotoroe po predaniiu sluzhilo banei Rostovskago Arkhiereiskago Doma. V Rostovskom muzeie. Rostov Velikii. Credit: Library of Congress.

Drevnee zerkalo XVII vieka, ukrashennoe rieznym iz zhelieza ornamentom na tsvietnoi sliudie. Muz. opisi No. 8661. V Rostovskom muzeie/ Rostov Velikii. Credit: Library of Congress.

Portret Iony III, Mitropolita Rostovskago, stroitelia Rostovskago Kremlia i Bieloi Palaty, pisannyi pri zhizni sviatitelia v XVII v. V Rostovskom muzeie. Rostov Velikii. Credit: Library of Congress.

Felon' vtoroi poloviny XVIII v. iz drevnei materii kamki, s oplech'em, rasshitym zhemchugom po malinovomu barkhatu. V Rostovskom muzeie. Rostov Velikii. Credit: Library of Congress.

Al'freska v tserkvi Isidora Blazhennago. Rostov Velikii. Credit: Library of Congress.

Detal' TSarskikh vrat v tserkvi Ioanna Bogoslova. Rostov Velikii. Credit: Library of Congress.

Protsess finiftevoi zhivopisi. V Rostovskom muzeie. Rostov Velikii. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Economic History

Russia

The Port of Rostov-on-Don is accessible from five seas and Russian river-to-sea vessels make regular runs from Rostov to many Mediterranean ports. (references)

Russia

Rostov is the capital of the Russian Southern Federal District, the second largest Russian producer of agricultural products and home to the country's major manufacturers of agricultural machinery, electric locomotives and helicopters. (references)

Minorities

Russia

On April 20, activists in Rostov Velikiy picketed the proposed site for the construction of a Jehovah's Witnesses center, proclaiming their opposition to "totalitarian cults." In March the head of the local department of the Ministry of Justice and other local officials held a press conference at Nizhniy Novgorod's city hall in which they called for noncooperation with such groups as the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Moonies, and the Scientologists. (references)

Political Rights

Russia

Voters generally had the opportunity to choose among all candidates, although in September the Communist Party candidate in the Rostov gubernatorial election was disqualified due to alleged irregularities in the signatures required to place his name on the ballot. (references)

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Expressions using "Rostov": Rostov na Donu ♦ Rostov on Don. Additional references.

Beginning with "Rostov": Rostov-na-donu, Rostov-on-don.

Russian 

ростов. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: roost, roots, rotos, toros, torso.

-2 letters: oots, orts, root, roto, rots, soot, sort, toro, tors.

-3 letters: oot, ors, ort, rot, sot, too, tor.

-4 letters: or, os, so, to.

+1 letter: provost.

+2 letters: outsavor, overshot, oversoft, overtops, provosts, stopover, virtuoso.

+3 letters: evocators, grooviest, nonvoters, obviators, outsavors, overcoats, overplots, overshoot, overshots, overstock, overstory, overtoils, overtones, overvotes, softcover, stopovers, vasomotor, violators, virtuosos, vorticose.

+4 letters: advocators, coinvestor, convectors, convertors, innovators, microvolts, motivators, nonvectors, outsavored, overcounts, overemotes, overmodest, overshoots, overstocks, overstrode, overthrows, ovipositor, renovators, servomotor, softcovers, vaporettos, victorious, virologist, vomitories.