Thursday
Mar 11th
| Mykolaiv |
| Wednesday, 24 October 2007 | |
| Mykolaiv is a regional city on the bank of the Bug Lagoon. The population of the city is over 500,000. It is one of the industrial centers of the Southern Ukraine with high-developed shipbuilding and machine engineering. In the 6th c. not far from the present-day city there was the Greek colony Olvia. After the demolition of the Zaporizhzhian Sich /Host/ a certain merchant Fabri founded here a village which was ruined by Turks in 1787. The modern name / 1789/ was given in honour of the victory of the Russian army over the Turkish fortress of Achi Kale /Ochakiv/ on December 6, 1788, the day of St. Nicholas Thaumaturge - the protector of seamen. Mykolaiv is one of the cultural and educational centers of Ukraine. It boasts of the Shipbuilding Institute and the Teachers' training Institute, theatres and museums. The Mykolaiv Theater of Ukrainian Drama and Musical Comedy was founded in 1959. The Museum of Arts was founded in 1914, it boasts of the pictures of I. Aivazovskyi, K. Bogaievskyi, T. Yablonska. Mykolaiv boasts of its monuments of architecture built in the style of classicism: The Museum of Shipbuilding and Fleet /1794/, the Church of Nicholas /1817/. Mykolaiv is the capital of Mykolaiv Region established on September 22, 1937. The region includes 19 districts, 7 towns, 20 settlements and 928 villages. Bashtanka /before 1928 -Poltavka/ is a district town known since the 19th century. The village was founded by the settlers from Poltava. The modern name comes from melon fields /"bashtan" in Ukrainian/. Nova Odesa /former Fediriyka/ is a district town on the Southern Buh. In 1776 the Cossacks, Ukrainians and Moldavians, founded here a small village of Fedirivka. In 1832 it was the area of dislocation of the Odesa Regiment. The village of Fedirivka became known as Nova Odesa /New Odesa/. Novyi Buh /former Kutsa Balka/ is a district town. In the 1750's there was a winter camp of Zaporizhzhian Cossack Jacob Kutsyi. The town got its present-day name in 1832 after the nearby Southern Buh river. Ochakiv is a district town on the bank of the Dnieper Lagoon. It was founded on the site of the Old Greek colony Alektora that existed here in the 1-3 cc. In the Middle Ages there was a fortress here. In 1492 Crimean khan Mengli Girei ruined it and built a new fortress Kara Kermen /Black Fortress/. Later it became the Turkish fortress under the name of Achi Kale, which was transformed in Ukrainian as Ochakiv. Pervomaisk is a district town. In 1773 there was the Orlyk fortification here which later became a town. It was named Oliviopil in honour of the Old Greek colony of Olvia. In 1919 Oliviopil and neighboring tons of Bohopil and Holta were united under the name of Pervomaisk /First of May/. Voznesensk is a district town and a pier on the Southern Buh. It came into being in 1795 on the site of the former Zaporizhzhian Cossack winter camp of Sakoly. It was renamed after M. O. Voznesenskyi /1903-1950/. |