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Industrial port (shipbuilding, tobacco, cars,
locomotives, textiles) in SW USSR, capital of
Rostov region, on the river Don, 23 km/14 mi
E of the Sea of Azov; population (1987)
1,004,000. Rostov dates from 1761 and is
linked by river and canal with Volgograd on
the Volga.