Editing Kerch (section)

==Culture==
[[File:2015. Богатырские игры в Керчи 042.jpg|thumb|Games of [[Bogatyr]]s in Kerch]]

===Festivals and celebrations===
*Liberation Day (11 April)
*Day of Fishermen (the second Sunday of July)
*Day of the {{not a typo|City}} (the second Saturday of September)

===Education===
[[File:Керчь.Памятник.jpg|thumb|Kerch Brotherhood]]

Kerch hosts (2004):
*28 schools,
*9 institutes and branches of Ukrainian and Russian universities,
*shipbuilding and polytechnical colleges,
*medical school,
*6 [[Professional technical school|PTU]] schools,
*a number of pre-school child institutions

===Archaeology===
[[File:Panticapaea excavations.JPG|thumb|Excavations in Pantikapaeum]]

Archaeological digs in Kerch were launched under Russian auspices in the middle of the 19th century. Since then the site of ancient [[Panticapaeum]] city on [[Mount Mithridat]] has been systematically excavated. Located nearby are several ancient burial mounds ([[kurgan]]s) and excavated cities. Kerch takes part in [[UNESCO]]'s "[[Silk Road]]" programme.<br />
Treasures and historical findings of Kerch adorn the [[Lapidarium, Kerch|Lapidarium]] in Kerch and the collections of major museums around the world. Such as: the [[Hermitage Museum|Hermitage]], the Louvre, the British Museum, the Berlin Museum, the Moscow State Museum of fine arts and many others.<br />
Currently, excavations at ancient fortresses of Kerch are led by scientists from Russia, Ukraine, and Poland.

===Twin towns – sister cities===
{| class="wikitable" style="background:white;"
|-
! City
! Country
! Year
|-
| [[Mogilev]]
| {{flagicon|BLR}} Belarus
| 1998
|-
| [[Smolensk]]
| {{flagicon|RUS}} Russia
| 1998
|-
| [[Çanakkale]]
| {{flagicon|TUR}} Turkey
| 1999
|-
| [[Oryol]]
| {{flagicon|RUS}} Russia
| 2004
|-
| [[Odintsovo]]
| {{flagicon|RUS}} Russia
| 2004
|-
| [[Sochi]]
| {{flagicon|RUS}} Russia
| 2005
|-
| [[Kyiv]]
| {{flagicon|UKR}} Ukraine
| 1997
|-
| [[Tula, Russia]]
| {{flagicon|RUS}} Russia
| 2014
|}
{{clear}}