Attractions of Odesa region

A branch of the Greek Cultural Foundation (Athens) was opened in Odesa in 1994 in a historic building, where in 1814 a secret revolutionary-patriotic organization "Filiki Eteria" was established, which was engaged in preparing the national liberation movement in Greece. 

The museum was founded in 1979 as a department of the Odesa Historical and Local Lore Museum. The completion of construction work and the transfer of the Museum to its historical site were made possible thanks to the contribution of Greek organizations in Odesa.

The museum's exposition demonstrates the activities and life of the Greek colony in Odesa in the pre-revolutionary period.

Later, a new local history department was opened with objects that recreate the interior of the house of the former mayor of Odesa and a famous public figure, Hrihoriy Marazli, in the premises of which the museum is now located.

The Fine Arts Museum named after Oleksandr Biliy is located in the center of the city of Chornomorsk opposite the central entrance to the Primorsky Park.

The museum was opened in 1978 as an exhibition of fine arts and porcelain. It is named after the outstanding Ukrainian collector Oleksandr Biliy, on the basis of whose private collection the museum was created.

The museum funds include over three thousand exhibits, each of which is a masterpiece in the field of applied art. The porcelain collection contains exhibits that come from over 30 porcelain factories around the world and covers the period from the 18th century to the present day.

The museum lobby houses three panels by the famous Ukrainian artist Oksana Mas, who was born in Chornomorsk. The concert and exhibition hall of the Oleksandr Biliy Museum of Fine Arts hosts exhibitions by famous foreign and Ukrainian artists.

The Izmail Memorial Park-Museum "Fortress" was created in 1991 to protect the historical territory of the Izmail Fortress of the XVI-XIX centuries and other architectural monuments of the city.

The administration and exhibition halls of the museum are located in an old one-story building in the city center. The exposition consists of one large hall and three rooms, which shows the history of the formation and development of the fortress of Ishmael, reflects the life of the medieval city.

In the courtyard of the museum there is a Park of Miniatures, which exhibits models of objects that took place in Turkish Ishmael in the XVI-XVIII centuries: a general view of the fortress, the Broska Gate, the stone bastion of Tabia, the Red Mosque in the Tatar districts, the Small Mosque diorama "Assault on the fortress of Izmail"), St. Nicholas Church, residential buildings, caravanserai, city fountain. The miniatures are made at a scale of 1:30.

A sightseeing tour of the main sights of the city of Izmail is offered.

The "Free Roses Country" farm was created in 1995 by amateur florist Mykola Hromlyuk.

The farmer breeds more than 500 varieties of roses here, including unique ones. On 20 hectares of former fields of a local poultry farm, tens of thousands of seedlings are grown at the same time.

The "Rose Republic" is popular as a tourist attraction - there are tours with tastings of rose jam and liqueur, which are prepared according to unique recipes from the petals of especially fragrant varieties.

Roses on the farm bloom from spring to late autumn, but it is better to choose May-June to visit the "Free Roses Country".

The Izmail Museum of History and Local Lore of the Danube Region was founded in Izmail in 1990.

Located in an old two-story mansion of the late XIX century, which belonged to the Bessarabian landowner and mayor Fedir Tulchianov.

The museum's collection includes more than 40,000 exhibits. The exhibition area of ​​about 1,000 square meters features permanent exhibitions: "Ancient History and Archeology of the Lower Danube", "Turkish Izmail", "Contribution of the Tulchianovy Merchant Dynasty to the Development of Izmail", "World War I in Memory of Izmail", Gloty Hall and the pavilion of nature.

You can see archeological finds, precious coins and jewelry, ceramics, furniture, watches, musical instruments, samples of folk and secular (salon) clothing and more. Of particular note is the collection of costumes of the museum theater "Sophocles", created in the style of different eras: Kyivan Rus X-XI centuries, aristocratic and folk clothing of the XVI-XIX centuries.

The theater, which employs museum staff, shows a number of performances and mini-performances.

The courtyard of the museum with flower beds, trees and exotic shrubs is open to the public, where an old two-storey 19th-century Balkan-style wing with a wooden gallery on the second floor and a corner tower is located.

The Museum of the History of Fire Protection of Odesa operates on the territory of the Third State Fire and Rescue Department of the city, where a fire and technical exhibition operated for 20 years, and now the history of fire protection of the Odesa region from the beginning of its foundation to the present has been collected here.

In the hall of memory of the Chornobyl accident, a diorama "Explosion at the Fourth Power Unit of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant" is installed, made according to the sketches of the specialist of the Main Directorate of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in the Odesa region Larysa Leonova.

Among the exhibits of the museum's exposition you can see models of ancient and modern fire equipment, a horse-drawn barrel train, a manual fire pump of the 19th century, real fire equipment, archival photographs of the 18th-19th centuries, and reduced copies of fire equipment.

Only group tours are held by prior arrangement.

The Museum of the History of the Jews of Odesa "Migdal-Shorashim" was opened on the initiative of the Migdal Jewish Community Center in Odesa.

His exhibition is located in a small apartment and reflects the history of the Jewish community, which is inextricably linked with the culture of Odesa.

The permanent exhibition of the "Migdal-Shorashim" Museum includes about a thousand items: documents, photographs, books, newspapers, postcards, religious and household items, musical instruments, works of art, etc.

The Holy Ascension Cathedral is the main Orthodox shrine and the largest temple in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi.

Construction on the site of the old Turkish cemetery was carried out from 1815 to 1820 with donations from local residents. Initially, the church had the shape of a ship, but in 1830, three porticos with 4 columns were added, and the cathedral took on the shape of a cross, characteristic of Russian classicism. In 1971, the walls and dome of the cathedral were painted by the family of the artist Piskarev with a group of Moscow artists.

A part of the relics of Saint Ioann of Suchavsky is preserved in the Ascension Cathedral.

A 40-meter-high belfry adjoined the cathedral, which collapsed in 2004 (restoration is underway).

A chapel was built on the territory in honor of the 2000th anniversary of the birth of Christ.

The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built in Tatarbunary in 1877 on the site of a small wooden church founded in 1814.

The one-seat Holy Assumption Church has the shape of a cross. This is one of the few churches in Bessarabiya that was never closed even during the height of Soviet atheism.

The Holy Assumption Church was built in the village of Kotlovyna in 1938.

Construction began in 1914, but was stopped a year later due to the outbreak of World War I. After the war, the area came under Romanian rule, but the construction of the church was continued and it was officially opened in 1938.

In 1944, the church was closed by the Soviet authorities. Divine services resumed after Ukraine gained independence.

The Holy Assumption Church in Kotlovyna is the only church in Ukraine where part of the church services are held in the Gagauz language.

The Holy Assumption Church (or "White Church") was founded in Biliaivka in 1794 and is one of the oldest churches in the Odesa region. The first church was made of willow stakes covered with clay and whitened every year. This is why this church was nicknamed "White Church" by the people, which it still has today.

A new stone church was built in 1873. During the Soviet regime, the church was closed, the dome was destroyed, and the rector of the church was shot near the church gate. In 1943, during the Romanian occupation, services in the Holy Assumption Church were resumed and the church was reconstructed. In the 1950s, with the return of Soviet power, the church was closed again. The church building was used as a workshop for a long time.

After Ukraine gained independence in the 1990s, the restoration of the church began. In the interior of the Holy Assumption Church, a fresco depicting Saint Onuphrius has been preserved, which has been painted over many times, but the image of the saint has appeared through the paint.

The Holy Assumption Church is an architectural monument of local importance. It is used by the Odesa Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.

The Holy Assumption Monastery is the most famous abode in Odesa, founded by Metropolitan Havryil.

Since 1946, the summer residence of the Moscow Patriarchs was located here, the monastery was named Patriarchy, and the Odesa Theological Seminary was transferred here. The building of the patriarchal residence has been preserved on the territory.

The first stone temple was built in 1825 on the site of a wooden one (it was later destroyed by the Bolsheviks). In 1834, a second monastery church with a bell tower was built in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Life-giving Source" (now Uspensky) with the funds donated to the temple by the Odesa merchant Dariya Kharlambu.

Currently, the Holy Assumption Monastery houses the miraculous icon of the Mother of God "The Milkmaid", painted by Athos monks in the 17th century.

The Cathedral of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God in Izmail is the main temple of the city.

It was built in the center of Izmail in 1820-1831, during the heyday of urban planning, in the house of an old wooden temple from Turkish times. The cathedral in the style of classicism was built according to the project of the architect Avraam Melnykov, professor of architecture and rector of the Moscow Academy of Arts (according to another version - Heorhiy Torichelli).

At first it was a simple one-domed temple. Next to it in 1848, a 65-meter three-tier bell tower was built, the bells for which were cast from the metal of captured Turkish cannons. A little later, the bell tower was connected to the cathedral by a covered gallery, and above it was built the upper temple of Nicholas the Wonderworker. The distinct oval colonnade was built in 1837. As a result, the form of the Holy Intercession Cathedral began to vaguely resemble the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg.

The interior was painted in the Art Nouveau style by the artist Pavlo Piskarev, a student of Viktor Vasnetsov.

At the beginning of the 20th century, a clock with a battle was installed on the belfry, which is still going on.

The Holy Intercession Cathedral in Kiliia was built in 1822-1836 according to the project of the architect Abraham Melnikov.

In 1895, a bell tower was added to the new cathedral.

Local residents call the church a "Ukrainian church" as opposed to Old Believer churches.

The Holy Intercession Church is a business card of the village of Starokozache.

The beautiful red brick building in the center of the village was laid in 1908, but construction was delayed, interrupted first by the First World War, then by the Bolshevik coup and the establishment of Soviet power. Work resumed only in 1929 during the Romanian occupation, and was completely completed in 1937.

The Church of the Intercession is built according to the type of cathedral in the shape of a cross. The bell tower was originally much higher, but after the church was closed by the Soviet authorities in 1962, it was destroyed.

Restoration began in 1989. In particular, the original paintings have been restored.