Attractions of Mykolaiv region

Pushkin Square was opened in Mykolaiv in 1988. It is located at the intersection of Pushkin Street and Naberezhna Street, where the Inрul Bridge begins.

In 2011, the square was reconstructed, and the fence around it, which was regularly painted with graffiti, was decorated with drawings based on the plots of famous fairy tales and episodes from the writer's life.

A bronze sculpture of twenty-five-year-old Pushkin on a granite pedestal, created by Yuriy Makushyn, was installed in the park. In 2022, during the Russian-Ukrainian war, the Pushkin sculpture was dismantled by the municipal services of the city by the decision of the Mykolaiv city council.

The radon lake near the village of Myhiia, also known as the "Black Sea", arose on the site of an old granite quarry in the territory of the regional landscape park "Granite-Steppe Pobuzhzhya" near the rapids of the Pivdenniy Buh.

The lake, more than 40 meters deep with steep banks, is fed by underground radon sources. The water in it is very clean, has an extremely bright blue color. According to legend, you can see a submerged excavator at the bottom.

There is a convenient viewing platform above the lake.

The Catholic Church of Saint Joseph was built at the expense of Catholic parishioners in 1896 according to the project of the architect Vladyslav Dombrovskyi.

In 1934, it was closed by the Bolsheviks. A local history museum was housed in a nearby building on the territory - one of the first museums of antiquities in the territory of the former Russian Empire (founded in 1803, more than 160,000 exhibits were collected: antiquities from Olbia, instruments of Kyivan Rus, Cossack weapons, etc.).

Since 1992, services have been resumed in the church. In recent years, an organ has been installed, and organ music concerts are held. In the yard - a collection of stone women.

Saint Michael's Pelagia Monastery adorns the rocky banks of the Inрul River on the territory of the "Pryinhulskyi" regional landscape park.

In the center of the complex stands the church of Saint Pelagia, built in 1896-1904 by the brothers Andriy and Mykhaylo Durilin, following the will of father Isidore Durilin, in memory of their mother Pelagia, who died early. An unknown German architect used the modern style fashionable at the turn of the century, embodying it in the "a la Russe" style. The twelve-headed church with domes was crowned with mirror crosses. There are three thrones in the church: Saint Archstrategist Michael, Saint Pelagia and Martyr Andriy Stratilatus. Before the Soviet-Ukrainian war, a parish school operated at the Pelagie church.

During the period of Soviet power, the temple was looted, the premises were used as a warehouse.

In 1994, an Orthodox nunnery of the Moscow Patriarchate was founded at the restored Pelagia Church. The restoration of the temple continues. The construction of the winter church, which is adjacent to the nuns' cells, has been completed.

The stone Saint Nicholas Cathedral in Mykolaiv was built in 1813 in the style of classicism. Ornaments and paintings of the 19th century have been preserved.

Since its consecration, the temple has never been closed for a long time, even in the midst of the struggle with religion. After the establishment of the Nicholas and Ascension Diocese, when the city of Mykolaiv became the diocesan center, the Saint Nicholas Church was given the status of a cathedral. The temple was restored, bells appeared on the belfry. In the southern part of the cathedral, a side altar was built in honor of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God. A place for the consecration of water was built near the northern door on the outside.

Saint Nicholas Cathedral in Mykolaiv is included in the list of architectural monuments of state importance.

The former Turkish mosque is the only Ochakiv building preserved from Turkish times.

It is located on the ramparts of the Ochakiv (Achi-Kale) fortress, which was taken by Russian troops and Black Sea Cossacks in 1788 after the defeat of the Turkish squadron by the Russian-Zaporozhzhian fleet and the troops of Oleksandr Suvorov.

After the capture of the city in 1794, the mosque was transformed into the Orthodox Church of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker. Initially, a wooden dome was built, and in 1804-1807, a major reconstruction was carried out: a stone altar, vestibule and porch were added, and the stone minaret was transformed into a belfry.

In Soviet times, the Suvorov Military History Museum was located here. Currently, the building has been handed over to the church again and the Ochakiv Saint Nicholas Cathedral is located here again, restoration is in progress.

Marine artist Rufin Sudkovskyi and Ochakiv commandant Orest Shchetynin are buried in the church circle.

The Chapel of Saint Nicholas was founded in Mykolaiv in 2004 on Soborno-Mykolayivska Square.

Before the revolution, next to this place, at the intersection of Admiralska and Soborna streets, was the main temple of Mykolaiv - the majestic Admiralty Cathedral.

The Church of Saint Nicholas was designed by the architect Oleksandr Domoratskyi. The height from the base to the cross is 16 meters.

Saint Peter and Paul Church in Novyi Buh was built in the first half of the 19th century.

It belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The ancient settlement "Wild Garden" is the remains of the Cimmerian settlement of the 12th century BC.

This port city at the confluence of the Ingul River with the Pivdennyi Buh appeared during the time of the legendary Troy, half a millennium before the foundation of the ancient Greek Olbia.

The settlement was discovered by the archaeologist Feodosiy Kaminsky in 1927, and regular archaeological research has been conducted since 1990. One of the first finds was a bronze cauldron. Next, fragments of ceramic dishes, tools, and animal bones were discovered - these finds are presented in the local history museum.

The foundations of the walls of the ancient premises, the remains of two stone bridges, and the temple premises of the sun worshipers were cleared. In the northern part, a fragment of a defensive wall and a watchtower were excavated.

The settlement "Wild Garden" was a well-fortified Black Sea port city, an important administrative and trade center that received ships and land caravans. Some researchers consider this settlement to be a proto-state.

It is planned to create a museum complex "Settlement "Wild Garden".

In one of the highest places in Mykolaiv, on the top of Spassky Hill, a water tower has been standing for more than a hundred years, the peculiarity of which is its hyperboloid construction.

Despite the curvature, it was built from straight beams. This form was first introduced into architecture by the famous Russian engineer Volodymyr Shukhov, in whose honor this tower was named. According to his project, many similar structures were built in Russia and abroad, including the famous television tower in Moscow on Shabolovska Street.

The question of the need to build a water tower arose in Mykolaiv in July 1904. The city community then spent more than 35 thousand rubles on the implementation of the project.

When the city was occupied by the fascists, the Shukhovska Tower was blown up and overturned. Soon after the liberation of Mykolaiv, the landmark was restored.

Now the tower is not used for its intended purpose, but it still remains the pride of Mykolaiv. The height of the building is 25 meters, and the total capacity of the tank is 50,000 buckets.

The ancestral estate of the Skarzhynsky Cossack family in the village of Trykraty has been preserved since the 18th century, when it belonged to the hero of the Russian-Turkish war, Colonel Petro Skarzhynsky.

In 1778, the famous botanist Count Viktor Skarzhynsky was born here. In his estate, he organized an advanced economy at that time, laid out a pomological garden (221 varieties), an arboretum (281 species), an orchard with a vineyard (100 hectares) and forest nurseries, acclimatizing a number of tree species and shrubs from South America and Western Europe.

Today, the Skarzhynsky farm and the park are the state protected tract "Trykratskyi forest".

The manor house of the Skarzhynsky has been preserved, which now houses the Trykraty School of Arts.

The water mill on the Pivdennyi BuhRiver in Myhiia was built in 1888 by the local landowner Yosyp Skarzhynskyi according to the project of the engineer Vladyslav Yaskulskyi.

The five-story building resembles a medieval castle. Previously, up to 3,000 poods of flour per day were milled here, and in Soviet times the mill was converted into a hydroelectric power station.

Nearby you can see Buh rapids.

The monument to Suvorov in Ochakiv was erected in 1907.

Commander Oleksandr Suvorov played a decisive role in the capture by the Russian Empire of the Turkish fortress Ochakiv and the entire Northern Black Sea region. In 1787, during the Battle of Kinburn, Suvorov's troops managed to repulse the attack of the Turkish landing force and hold the Kinburn fortress on the spit opposite Ochakiv. The following year, the Kinburn fortress became the base for the assault on Ochakiv by the Russian troops of Hryhoriy Potomkin and the Black Sea Cossacks of Antin Holovatyi. Suvorov's coastal batteries supported the actions of the Russian squadron under the command of Prince Nassau-Siegen and the Cossack flotilla of Ataman Sidor Belyi, which partially destroyed and partially pushed back the Turkish fleet of Hassan Pasha from Ochakiv.

The opening of the monument to Suvorov in Ochakiv was dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the Battle of Kinburn. Sculptor Borys Eduards depicted Suvorov at the moment when the commander, having been wounded in the chest, nevertheless continued to command the troops.

The monument is located in the square near the Saint Nicholas Cathedral.

The estate of the Tropiny landowners is located on the territory of the Shchaslyvskyi Park on the opposite bank of the Inhul River from Sofiivka, in the village of Shchaslyve (from Sofiivka you can cross a suspended pedestrian bridge).

Brothers Mykola, Ivan, Oleksandr Tropin, sons of the merchant Stepan Tropin, were well-known philanthropists, builders of churches and trustees of educational institutions in Kherson. One of the Kherson hospitals bears their name.

In 1912, Tropiny built a manor house on the left bank of the Inhul and laid out a park. The manor house is poorly preserved, but restoration is already underway with the help of the "Pryinhulskyi" regional landscape park. A cellar has also been preserved, in which a banquet hall is arranged.

In the park, there are century-old aspen trees with a diameter of more than a meter, maples, and mulberries.

The Trykratsky Forest is an artificial forest massif created in the 70s of the 19th century by Count Viktor Skarzhynskyi.

It is a large park with an area of 247 hectares with a beautiful lake, many intricate paths and bridges thrown over the branches of the river and artificially laid canals. Because of this tract, it was called "Labyrinth". The Trykratsky forest also includes the protected tracts "Skarzhynsky Summer Farm" (105.7 hectares) and "Vasylivska Pasika" (252.0 hectares).

The greatest value of the Trykratsky Forest is 350 ancient oaks that have already celebrated their 120th anniversary, and some of them are up to 500 years old (coordinates: 47*42”42”N, 31*24”30”E).

Colonies of gray herons live in "Myron Grove".

Equipped playgrounds for rest and picnics.