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==Culture and religion==
 
[[File:Лютеранская_кирха,_1896,_архитектор_Н.Роллер.jpg|thumb|This [[Lutheran Church, Novocherkassk|Lutheran Church in Novocherkassk]] is currently used by a [[Baptists|Baptist]] congregation.]]
 
Novocherkassk was once an [[episcopal see|archiepiscopal see]] of the [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Greek Orthodox Church]] and has a [[Novocherkassk Cathedral|huge neo-Byzantine cathedral]] (1904), as well as the [[Church of Our Lady of the Don (Novocherkassk)|Church of Our Lady of the Don]] (2013), the palace of the [[ataman]] of the [[Cossacks]], and [[monument]]s to [[Matvei Platov]] and [[Yermak Monument|Yermak Timofeyevich]] ([[Mikhail Mikeshin]], 1904). During the bicentenary celebrations in September 2005 another monument, dedicated to the reconciliation of White and Red Cossacks, was opened in the presence of the members of the [[House of Romanov|Romanov]] family.