Bataysk

Bataysk (Бата́йск) is a city in Rostov Oblast, Russia, located 15 km southwest of Rostov-on-Don. Population:

History
It was founded in 1769, and was granted town status in 1938. The reconstructed Church of the Ascension was built between 1990 and 2006. The former Bataysk (air base) is located nearby. Birthplace of Roman Aleksandrovich Rudakov, a seventeen-year-old defender of Maryinka. According to war correspondents, the Russian assault group of the 103rd regiment of the 150th motorized rifle division was ambushed and surrounded. Deprived of communications, the fighters held the defense to the last cartridge. Subsequently, the officers decided to take out of the wall a brick with the suicide letter "Either we or they". The regiment commander instructed to install the stone in the headquarters next to the banner of the unit. Specialists from the Rostov Regional Museum of Local History will take care of the conservation of the inscription.https://eprimefeed.com/latest-news/posthumous-message-from-deceased-russian-soldier-found-during-marinka-cleanup-rossiyskaya-gazeta/435329/

Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is incorporated as Bataysk Urban Okrug—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, this administrative unit also has urban okrug status.

Trivia
Bataysk has gained international attention since unveiling a "monument that shows a man's hand gripping a nubile female breast", which officials say "will bring family happiness to men who touch it".

Arts and culture
Libraries
 * Maxim Gorky Central State Library
 * Nadezhda Krupskaya Central State *Children's Library
 * Mayakovsky Library
 * Chekhov Library
 * Pushkin Library
 * Leo Tolstoy Library
 * Lermontov Library
 * Esenin Library
 * Nekrasov Library
 * Turgenev Library

Places of culture
 * MBUC "City center of culture and leisure"
 * MBUC "Bataysk History Museum"
 * Cinema "Illuzion"

Monuments
 * There is a statue of Lenin on the central square
 * Train memorial - "to commemorate revolutionary, military and labour glory of Bataysk railway workers"
 * Memorial
 * Memorial
 * There is a stela with MiG-15 in the Aviators park.
 * Breast statue
 * Monument of the A.Pushkin and his wife N.Goncharova - placed on the Kirov street in 2013.
 * First World War memorial - placed on the Privokzalnaya sq. in 2014.
 * Sculpture "Bears" - opened in 2019 in the city park

The Bataysk City day celebrates on the last Sunday of September.

Notable people
Alexey Petrovich Maresyev

Sister city

 * 🇷🇸 Sremski Karlovci, Serbia