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being the capital of the World Cossacks. They have had a rich military
tradition, playing an important part in the historical development of the
Russian Empire and participating in most of its major wars.
…the
Novocherkassk massacre or Bloody Saturday. It refers to events tied to the
labor strike of a locomotive building plant in Novocherkassk, a city in the
Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. The events eventually culminated in riots of June
1–2, 1962 when reportedly 26 protesters were killed by Soviet Army troops, and
87 were wounded.
PLACES TO VISIT
Ascension Cathedral
Novocherkassk Museum of Don Cossacks History
Alexander Garden
Yermak Statue
Monument to Reconciliation and Agreement
Have
a look at the video below to find out more about the city of Novocherkassk.
Now that summer holidays are over, we resume our Postcrossing
activity with a card received from Sacramento,
the capital of California,
more than 8,500 km
away!
Thanks a million Marlene for this postcard featuring Sacramento’s best-known landmark, California State Capitol,
home to the government of California.
If you want to know more about this city in the
Western coast of the United States, visit our section Exploring Places!
Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S.
state of California and the seat of SacramentoCounty. It is at the confluence of the
Sacramento River and the AmericanRiver in the northern portion of California's
expansive Central Valley.
The oldest part of the town besides Sutter's Fort is
Old Sacramento, which consists of cobbled streets and many historic buildings,
several from the 1850s and 1860s. Buildings have been preserved, restored or
reconstructed, and the district is now a substantial tourist attraction, with
rides on steam-hauled historic trains and paddle steamers.
The historic buildings include the LadyAdamsBuilding, built by the passengers and ship's
carpenters of the ship Lady Adams.Having survived the Great Conflagration of November
1852, it is the oldest surviving building in Sacramento other than Sutter's Fort.
The "BigFourBuilding",
built in 1852, was home to the offices of Collis Huntington, Mark Hopkins,
Leland Stanford, and Charles Crocker. The Central Pacific Railroad and Southern
Pacific Railroad were founded there. The original building was destroyed in
1963 for the construction of Interstate 5, but was re-created using original
elements in 1965. It is now a National Historic Landmark. Also of historic
interest is the Eagle Theatre (Sacramento, California), a reconstruction of California's first permanent theatre in its
original location.
The CrockerArt Museum is the oldest public art museum west of
the Mississippi River. On July 26, 2007, the
museum broke ground for an expansion that more than tripled the museum's floor
space. The modern architecture is very different from the museum's original
Victorian style building.
The TowerBridge is a Vertical lift bridge across the
Sacramento River, linking West Sacramento in YoloCounty to the west, with the capital
of California, Sacramento,
in SacramentoCounty to the east. It was previously a
part of U.S. Route 40 until that highway was truncated to east of Salt Lake City. In 1982,
the TowerBridge was added to the National
Register of Historic Places.
The California State Capitol is home to the government
of California.
These Neoclassical structure was completed between 1861 and 1874 at the west
end of CapitolPark, which is framed by L Street to the
north, N Street to the south, 10th
Street to the west, and 15th Street to the east. The Capitol and
grounds were listed on the office of the National Register of Historic Places
in 1973,[1] and listed as a California Historical Landmark in 1974, with a
re-dedication on January 9, 1982 to commemorate the close of the bicentennial
restoration project
It is a cathedral of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States.
It is the mother church and seat of Jaime Soto, the ordinary bishop of the
Diocese of Sacramento. The Cathedral is located downtown at the intersection of
11th and K Streets.
If you want to find out more about what Sacramento has to offer,
why don’t you watch the video below?
