"Vereshchagino" survived a direct hit by a P-35 Progress anti-ship missile fired by Russian Navy from a city located on which peninsula ?
Sevastopol Sevastopol or traditionally Sebastopol ( or ; Russian: Севасто́поль ; Crimean Tatar: Акъяр, Aqyar ; ) is a city located in the southwestern region of the Crimean Peninsula on the Black Sea. As a result of the 2014 Russian annexation, the city is administered as a federal city of the Russian Federation, though Ukraine and most of the UN member countries continue to regard Sevastopol as a city with special status within Ukraine.
Nizhny Novgorod Nizhny Novgorod (Russian: Ни́жний Но́вгород ; ] ), colloquially shortened to Nizhny, is a city in the administrative center (capital) of Volga Federal District and Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in Russia. From 1932 to 1990, it was known as Gorky (Горький , ] ), after the writer Maxim Gorky, who was born there. The city is an important economic, transportation, scientific, educational and cultural center in Russia and the vast Volga-Vyatka economic region, and is the main center of river tourism in Russia. In the historic part of the city there is a large number of universities, theaters, museums and churches. Nizhny Novgorod is located about 400 km east of Moscow, where the Oka empties into the Volga. Population:  (2010 Census) ;  (2002 Census) ;  (1989 Census)