Editing Rostov Oblast (section)

==Culture==
{{See also|Music in Rostov Oblast|Don Cossacks}}
===Attractions===
[[File:Rostov-on-Don, State Musical Theater (Opera House), Russia.jpg|right|thumb| Rostov State Musical Theater]]

{{citation needed span|date=July 2022|The region has 8,057 objects of archaeological heritage of federal importance. These include lower-Gnilovskaya, a settlement and a necropolis, fragments of the walls of the Genoese fortress of the 14th century, the archaeological Museum-reserve "Tanais", and many burial mounds and necropolises. Since 2002, the Rostov region has hosted the country's only races on tractors.}}

===Theatres===
[[File:Драматический театр им. Чехова Chekhov Drama Theatre (26317407107).jpg|thumb|[[Taganrog Theatre]]]]
* Rostov academic drama theatre, named after Maxim Gorky.
*  [[Rostov State Musical Theater]]. The theater opened in September 1999, and is the successor to the 1919 Rostov Musical Comedy Theater, one of the best operetta theaters in the Soviet Union.

The theater has two stages as well as a music and entertainment center, and hosts about 300 performances and concerts annually, as well as various forums and festivals. Its repertoire encompasses both musical traditions, as well as experiments in the field of contemporary art.

* Rostov state puppet theatre.
* Rostov regional academic youth theatre (former Rostov theatre for young spectators).
* [[Taganrog Theatre]]. The Taganrog Theater was established in 1827 by governor Alexander Dunaev. The theater was subsidized by the Taganrog's City Council since 1828, and its first director was Alexander Gor. The first group of Russian drama artists was directed by Perovsky and toured around the region, giving performances in Rostov on Don, Novocherkassk, Bahmut. The repertoire consisted mainly of dramas, melodramas and vaudevilles.  In 1874, the Taganrog Municipality acquired the theater building by the purchase of its stocks.
* Don theatre of drama and Comedy V. F. Komissarzhevskaya (the Cossack drama theatre) Novocherkassk.
* Shakhty drama theatre, Shakhty.
* Novoshakhtinskiy drama theatre, Novoshakhtinsk.

===Museums===
[[File: Retro-poezd Rostov.jpg |220px|right|thumb| Soviet steam locomotive class Su in the display area]]
====In Rostov-on-Don====
[[File: Таганрогский военно-исторический музей - вход.jpg |right|thumb| Taganrog military museum]]
* Center for Contemporary Art "Tobacco Factory".
* Rostov Regional Museum of Local History.
* Rostov Regional Museum of Fine Arts.
* Museum of Contemporary Art at Dmitrovskaya.
* Museum of Russian-Armenian Friendship.
* [[Museum of North Caucasus Railway]].  The first museum of history of [[North Caucasus Railway]] opened on 4 November 1960 in a Community Center of railwaymen at [[Rostov-Glavny]] station. Permanent exposition includes: information boards about famous North Caucasus railwaymen, model trains on a scale 1:15, uniform, cases, panoramas, implements of various times. The exhibition covers the period from emergence of [[rail transport]] in the region up to the present moment. The various collections from the [[Russian Civil War]] and the [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Great Patriotic War]], now exceed 12,000 objects in the main fund.<ref>{{cite web|url =https://localway.ru/krasnodar/poi/muzey_istorii_severo_kavkazskoy_zheleznoy_dorogi_304307|script-title=ru:Музей истории Северо-Кавказской железной дороги|publisher = Localway|access-date = 2017-08-12|language = ru}}</ref>

====In other cities of the region====
[[File: Deinotherium in Azov museum.jpg |right|thumb| Deinotherium skeleton in one of the rooms.]]
* Aksai Military History Museum, Aksay.
* Archaeological museum-reserve "Tanais", Nedvigovka.
* [[Azov Museum of History, Archaeology and Palaeontology]], Azov. The bulk of the museum is located in the three-story building erected in 1892 which belonged to the former town council, there are 22 rooms.  The symbol of the museum is the skeleton of a Trogontherium mammoth that existed 800-600 thousand years ago in the interglacial period. This is the world's unique skeleton with the whole skull. The museum's areas: permanent exhibitions - 2852 m<sup>2</sup>, temporary exhibitions - 580 m<sup>2</sup>, storage facilities - 1896 m<sup>2</sup>, park (open air) - 7.13 hectares.&nbsp;
* [[Bataysk Museum of History]], Bataysk.
* Gukovo Museum of Mining Work, Gukovo.
* House-Museum of S. Budyonny, Stan. Budennovskaya.
* Novocherkassk Museum of the History of the Don Cossacks, Novocherkassk.
* Razdorsk Ethnographic Museum-Reserve, the camp. Razdorskaya.
* Salsk Art Museum named after People's Artist VK Nechitailo, Salsk.
* Shakhty Museum of Local History, Shakhty.
* [[Taganrog military museum]], Taganrog. The start of museum exhibition creation refers to May 9, 2004, when the club Auto-Retro Taganrog was founded. Subsequently, several vehicle units were purchased and repaired. In 2008, club activity concept got military direction. On May 6, 2010, permanent exhibition consisting of several thousands of exhibits was opened. In July 2012, the name Taganrog military museum got official status.
* [[The State Museum-Reserve of MA Sholokhov]], St. Veshenskaya.
* Volgodonsk Art Museum, Volgodonsk.
* Volgodonsk Ecological and Historical Museum, Volgodonsk.