Attractions of Odesa region

The Palace of the Governor-General of the Novorossiya Region Mykhaylo Vorontsov in Odesa was built in 1827 in the Empire style according to the project and under the direction of the architect Frants Boffo.

The interiors of the palace, designed by the outstanding sculptor and painter Karl Scotti, are the best examples of the preserved interiors of Odesa from the empire era. Prince Vorontsov arranged elegant balls here.

In Soviet times, the premises were occupied by the Palace of Children and School Youth.

The belvedere colonnade on the embankment is considered one of the symbols of Odesa. In 1994, the "Day and Night" fountain by Mykhaylo Reva was installed nearby.

In May 2022, during the Russian-Ukrainian war, the Vorontsov Palace was damaged by Russian missile fire.

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 Odessa - 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.

It presents a small ethnographic collection, materials on the history of the founding of the village and the work 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.

Odesa Zoo "Biopark" is another project of the owners of Nemo Dolphinarium. Located on the bypass road in the western part of Odesa, in the "Two Pillars" area.

The zoo is equipped with modern, spacious enclosures designed in accordance with the animals' natural habitat. Giraffes, Himalayan bears, Ussuri tigers, lions, chimpanzees, lemurs, gibbons, llamas, alpacas and others live in the Biopark.

The youngest visitors can interact with domestic animals in the petting zoo. There are playgrounds and animation shows for children, photo zones, public catering points.

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.