Published as: Qualls, Karl D. Imagining Sevastopol: History and Postwar Community Construction, 1942–1953. National Identities 5, no. 2 (2003): 123-139. This author pre-print is made available on Dickinson Scholar with the permission of the publisher. For more information on the published version, visit Taylor and Francis's Website.

By exploring the reconstruction of the city of Sevastopol after the Second World War and the memorialisation that accompanied this process, this article seeks to examine the identities embedded into this process, particularly the relationship between local and Soviet identities.