How the home port of the Red Navy's Black Sea Fleet earned the title, "Hero City of the USSR."
Map 1: Crimea
Source: Nations Online
Map 2: The Siege of Sevastopol
Source: Warfare History Network
Other sources:
Clayton Donnell, The Defence of Sevastopol, 1941–1942: The Soviet Perspective. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2016.
David Glantz, Operation Barbarossa: Hitler's Invasion of Russia 1941. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2011.
David Stahel, Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Siege of Sevastopol (1941–1942), Wikipedia.