Bataysk, Rostov Oblast, Southern Federal District, Russia

🇷🇺 Bataysk (Бата́йск) is a city in Rostov Oblast, Russia, located 15 km (9.3 mi) south-west of Rostov-on-Don.

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.

Geography: Administrative 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.

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 centre 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.