Attractions of Odesa region

The world-famous artist Valeriy Syrov has been living and working in Biliaivka, near Odesa, for many years.

Valeriy Syrov is a member of the Artists' Union, a participant in national and international exhibitions in Italy, Mexico, Japan and other countries. The master's works are kept in museums of Ukraine and private collections in Canada, Japan, the USA, and European countries. He works in various techniques, genres and styles: watercolor, graphics, monotype, painting, assemblage-collage, the author of a folklore series, where he painted the life of an entire town of fictional fairy-tale characters.

The artist is happy to welcome visitors to his studio and conducts master classes for them. Visitors to the studio have a unique opportunity to take a master class from the artist, discover their creative potential and learn "simple painting" in such techniques as watercolor and monotype.

The museum in Velyka Mykhailivka was established on a non-profit basis in 1972 as a museum of the history of the national theater. Its foundation was the amateur museum of the director, artist and head of the district House of Culture Petro Bykov, which was rich in funds.

Over time, the museum's expositions were enriched with interesting finds from archaeologists and the local population. In 1978, the museum became a district historical and local history museum. Its expositions highlighted historical events, testifying to the ancient settlement of the district's territory (remains of animal bones from primitive sites, fragments of dishes and tools).

Now it is the "Hrosulovo Museum" - this is what the village was called before it was renamed Velyka Mykhailivka by the Soviet authorities in 1946.

The museum stores old books, fiction, tools, weapons from different times, etc. The exhibits on land relations in the late 19th - early 20th centuries are interesting.

In 2016, the Hrosulovo Museum's exposition was expanded with a new section - the founders of the private "Hryhoriy Veryovka Choir Museum", the family of Vitaliy and Olena Pervukhins, transferred their museum exposition dedicated to the history of the choir to the local history museum.

In 2022, a new exposition dedicated to the latest Russian-Ukrainian war was opened. In the future, the Hrosulovo museum space is planned to be transformed into a "people`s hub".

"Vinaria wine Cellar" is locate in the old part of Izmail town and offers the local Bessarabian wine and organic vinegars of its own small family winery, as well as traditional Bessarabian cuisine.

Established in 2017 in an old Bessarabian building next to the Izmail Military History Museum and Holy Intercession Cathedral, 3 km away from the Izmail Fortress. It harmonically combines the cellar old-fashioned look, vintage decorations, artistic forging and author's furniture.

The restaurant offers exclusively dry wines of Western European varieties, as well as author's tarragon wine according to the recipe of local ethnic Bulgarians. The wines are made by hand using classic technologies on modern Italian equipment.

A small guided tour in the wine cellar during tasting.

The conceptual wine cellar "Vinaria" is a participant in the project "Wine and Taste Route of Ukrainian Bessarabia".

The Wax Figures Museum "Baba Utya" was founded by Oleksandr Pavlovsky in 1998 in the very center of Odesa, opposite the Opera House.

This is an analogue of the London Madame Tussauds Museum. Here you can see many celebrities made of wax. The first exhibits of the museum were wax copies of Yosyp de Ribas, Duke de Rishelye, Count Oleksandr Lanzheron. Over time, the collection was replenished with other figures, the exposition is constantly updated and expanded. Currently, the museum presents more than 60 wax figures thematically arranged and exhibited in separate halls.

The museum "Baba Utya" also has a reduced copy of the most famous street in Odesa - Derybasivska, as well as an art gallery. Excursions are held, during which visitors are introduced to all the figures of the museum and told about all the subtleties and secrets of creating wax figures. You can also try creating a figure yourself using wax.

The mansion of Honorary Justice of the Peace Aloiziy Yaroshevych was built in 1890 in the center of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi according to the project of the architect Yevhen Yermakov in the spirit of neo-romanticism with a predominance of the Moorish style.

At the moment, the building is in a state of disrepair, and the local authorities cannot decide who owns it and what to do with it. Meanwhile, the most beautiful architectural monument is being destroyed.

The Yasenivsky People`s Museum of History and Local Lore was founded in the village of Yasenove Druhe in 1960. The head and founder of the museum was the historian and local lore expert Serhiy Rakhubenko, who began collecting exhibits in 1948 and whose name the museum now bears.

The museum is located on the territory of the Holy Intercession Church in an adapted building of the church building.

Today, the museum's collection includes more than 3 thousand exhibits. For the presence of rare and unique exhibits, the museum was awarded the title of "People's", which was confirmed in 1991.

Among the interesting exhibits of the museum are: a flint knife from the settlement of the Trypillyan culture, ritual ceramic vessels of the Chernyakhiv culture, a plow, a wooden axle of a milky-white cart, a wooden propeller of the first airplanes, carpoles (wooden pitchforks), a tusk of a fossil rhinoceros (1 million years old), whole teeth of a dinotherium and a mammoth, relics of Adzhymushkay, a Greek amphora from the bottom of the Kerch Strait, a terracotta seal of the church of the Berdyansk Regiment, and a flint axe.

Excavations at the site of the hillfort, which some researchers also associate with the 18th century Turkish fortress of Yeni-Dunya.

The hillfort is located near Cape Sychavskyi to the west of the mouth of the Tylihul estuary, near the Pivdenne city and the Koshary village.

According to one version, the Koshary settlement is much older, and it can be identified with the ancient city of Odesos, which gave its name to the present Odesa.

The Zakharivka People's Historical and Local Lore Museum is located in the center of the village of Zakharivka.

The museum exposition presents a small ethnographic collection, materials about the history of the founding of the village, and the works of local folk artists.

The building of the poviat zemstvo administration with a square and a fence is one of the most interesting architectural monuments of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi.

It was built in 1905 according to the typical project of "model" buildings, which were developed during this period by St. Petersburg architects. Volodymyr Puryshkevych , the future murderer of Rasputin, was the head of the Zemstvo administration at that time.

Currently, it is the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Vocational College of Nature Management, Construction and Computer Technologies.

The Zoological Museum is a structural unit of the Biology Faculty of the Odesa National University named after Ilya Mechnykov.

The museum collections of the current Zoological Museum began to form even before the official opening of the university in 1865. For more than 33 years, natural objects were collected for the natural history department of the Ryshelevsky Lyceum, on the basis of which the university was founded. The most valuable were the collections of Professor Oleksandr Nordman, a famous researcher of the fauna of the Black Sea region, who headed the museum in 1862.

The Zoological Museum is located in the building of the Biology Faculty of the university, where it occupies 3 exhibition halls with a total area of ​​1000 square meters. The museum fund consists of 56 thousand storage units, of which 7.5 thousand exhibits are presented in the exposition.