Attractions of Odesa region

The Holy Intercession Church was built in the village of Yasenove Druhe in the second half of the 18th century. It is an architectural monument of local importance.

The church houses a unique icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "It is Worthy to Be", which was painted and consecrated in the cell of John Chrysostom on Mount Athos and is revered by local residents as a highly revered shrine.

On the territory of the Holy Intercession Church is the Yasenivsky Historical and Local Lore Museum with rare artifacts from the history of the region.

The Holy Trinity Greek Church was built according to the project of architects Dzhovanni Frapolli and Arkadiy Todorov in the style of classicism.

Founded in 1795, it was intended for the Greek community of the city, and was originally made of wood. In 1804, the solemn laying of the stone temple took place, the construction lasted 4 years. In 1821, the Patriarch of Constantinople Hrihoriy V, who was executed by the Turks, was buried here (later the remains were transferred to Athens).

From 1936 to 1941, the Holy Trinity church was closed.

The oldest temple in the city. The marble floor is partially preserved.

Since January 4, 2006 - the Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Odesa Metropolis of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

"House with Atlanteans" in Odesa is considered one of the most beautiful residential buildings not only in the city, but also in the whole country.

The complex of profitable buildings on Mykoly Hoholya Street was created in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by architects Lev Vlodek and Semen Landesman. The houses belonged to the Falts-Feyn family, the founders of the "Askania-Nova" nature reserve.

The "House with Atlanteans" became especially popular thanks to the statues of the sculptor Tovy Fishel that decorate it. The figures of the mighty Atlanteans, bent under the weight of the star globe, became the business card of Odesa.

On the house opposite you can also see Atlanteans supporting the balcony.

The house-museum and home bakery "Khlebna kyshta" in Krynychne (pronounced as "khlibna kyshta", which means "bread house" in Bulgarian) is a private estate of Krynychne folklorist Tetiana Yancheva-Dukova, where tourists are served with traditional Bessarabian bread-making.
    
Homemade cornmeal bread is made here according to ancient Bulgarian recipes, which use intoxicating yeast and wine products. This bread has a special taste and appetizing texture. It can be stored for a long time without hardening and without losing its taste.

For tourist groups, the hostess can organize a tour of the house-museum of Bulgarian life "Bytova Kyshta" and an exhibition of woven products of the last century. He will also demonstrate the process of baking sourdough bread, hold a master class on making traditional Bulgarian bakery products, and at the end will arrange a delicious tasting. An additional attraction will be the performance of Bulgarian songs accompanied by folk instruments.

The tasting can be complemented by a lunch with dishes of Bulgarian national cuisine, including "Kurban" (lamb soup), "Agnieszka Churba" (lamb soup), "Kashychka ut pulenci" (chicken cream soup), "Lozena sarma" (stuffed grape leaves with bulgur), "Ryba sas bulgur" (fish baked with onions and bulgur), cheese, sliced vegetables.

The House-museum and home bakery "Khlebna kyshta" is a participant in the project "Wine and Taste Route of Ukrainian Bessarabia".

The House-wall or Flat House in Odessa is the former profitable house of Rafalovych, which attracts tourists with its unique architectural feature.

When looking at it from a certain angle, a complete illusion is created that the building has only one wall - the facade. The best perspective on this optical effect opens from the intersection of Vorontsovsky Lane and Prymorsky Boulevard.

In 2013, Rafalovych's House-wall was recognized as an architectural monument of local importance in Ukraine.

The History and Local Lore Museum was opened in the village of Ilyinka in 2012 by the couple Viktor and Tatiana Bondarchuk.

The museum's exposition includes about five thousand exhibits, which are located in two exhibition halls. The first hall is historical and local history. The second is dedicated to the stories of wars and world cataclysms - World War II, Afghanistan and the modern Russian-Ukrainian, as well as the Chornobyl tragedy.

The pride of the collection of the Ilyinka Museum is part of a training plane that crashed in 1944 near the village.

The Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin in Kiliia is the largest Old Believer church in Odesa region.

The first Old Believer Intercession Church in Kiliia was built in 1846 from adobe (clay bricks mixed with straw, dried in the sun). The Old Believer district of Kiliia was formed around the church.

In 1912-1916, a new one was built around the adobe church - the old one was dismantled and taken out through the door. Great help in the construction of the Old Believer Cathedral was provided by Jewish merchants - a feature of multinational Kiliia.

In 1929-1930, a new 51-meter bell tower was built. The fence around the temple yard was built already in Soviet times - in 1953-1954.

The Museum of Interesting Science in Odesa is the first science-entertainment interactive museum in the south of Ukraine, where more than 130 unique interactive exhibits from the world of science have been collected.

If in other museums you can't even touch the valuable exhibits, here you can not only touch, check, feel and see everything in action. Both children and adults can conduct interesting experiments and unusual experiments.

The main task of the museum is to show schoolchildren and students that even the most difficult problems and the longest formulas can be fascinating, you just have to look at them from a different angle.

The Museum of Interesting Science aims to teach subjects of the natural cycle: physics, chemistry, biology, geology, astronomy, mathematics and many other fields of knowledge.

The museum's laboratory hosts a Tesla show every day, and chemistry and physics shows are also being actively developed. In the planetarium, sessions of informative scientific films about space take place every hour.

In the summer of 2023, a Russian rocket destroyed the premises of the Museum of Interesting Science on Taras Shevchenko Avenue in Odesa. But with the exception of special rooms, the museum team managed to save almost all of its exhibits and after 7 months the museum moved part of its exposition to a new location and opened its first branch - the Experimentarium.

And already on April 12, 2024, he resumed his work in a new place - in the shopping center Arkadiya City, where you can see 50 more exhibits. Also, in the renovated Museum of Interesting Science, they plan to open a completely new exhibition "The World under a Microscope".

The memorial sign in honor of General Ivan Inzov was opened in 2010 for the 165th anniversary of the death of the founder of Bolhrad, a hero of the Franco-Russian war, a guardian of immigrants from the southern part of the Russian Empire.

The first monument to Inzov in Bolhrad was created with public funds back in 1911, but it was dismantled and taken to Romania under the Romanian authorities. It is planned to create an exact copy.

The current memorial is a round obelisk with a relief portrait of Inzov. The inscription on the reverse side reads: "General Inzov of the Suvorov and Kutuzov schools made a famous name for himself in military and civil positions. He gave the settlers a new life in the new Motherland. With his assistance, the construction of Bolhrad was started."

The Izmail Art Gallery presents a collection of modern Ukrainian and foreign art, an exposition of decorative and applied art, sections of Ukrainian and Western European art of the 16th-19th centuries, works of icon painting, art of the peoples of the East.

Painting, graphics, sculpture are presented. A portrait of Generalissimo Oleksandr Suvorov painted by an unknown 19th-century master, engravings with portraits of Hryhori Potomkin, Kostyantyn Vorontsov, Fedir Tolstoy, graphic sheets of itinerant artists Ivan Shyshkin, Illya Repin, and Volodymyr Makovsky are on display. The painting "Bay" by the celebrated mariner Rufin Sudkovskyi is presented.

Among the pearls of the museum collection is a vase by the famous French master Emile Halle.

The remains of the Turkish fortress of Izmail, taken in 1790 by Russian troops and Black Sea Cossacks under the command of Oleksandr Suvorov, have been preserved on the high bank of the Danube in the western part of present-day Izmail.

The fortress was mostly earthen, with brick retaining walls and three stone bastions on the Danube side. The plan to storm Izmail, approved by Suvorov, was drawn up by the commander of the Black Sea rowing flotilla, Yosyp de Rybas. He also led the largest assault column of Cossacks, attacking the fortress from the river. The battle lasted more than 16 hours. The Turks were defeated, losing 29,000 killed, while the losses of the Russians amounted to 4,000 killed. Mikhaylo Kutuzov was appointed commandant of conquered Izmail.

After the defeat of Russia in the Crimean War, under the terms of the Paris Peace Treaty, Izmail Fortress was blown up, the fortifications demolished. Now from the side of Sudnoremontnykiv Street you can see fragments of earthen ramparts and a grand defensive moat up to 11 meters deep, as well as one fragment of the retaining wall consisting of plinths. The park on the banks of the Danube preserves the remains of a moat and an embankment, the Kiliia Gate of Saint Nicholas Monastery, the Church of the Assumption (1643-1841), the Church of Saint Nicholas (1644-1852), and the Small Mosque (XVI century), which exhibits diorama "Siege of Izmail Fortress". The Eagle monument has been erected in the military cemetery.

In 1991, the Izmail Memorial Park-Museum "Fortress" was established, whose staff conducts tours of the fortress.

The administration of the park-museum and the exposition on the history of the Izmail fortress are located in the city center (51 Nezalezhnosti Avenue).

The Izmail Military History Museum is located in a mansion of the XIX century, which belonged to the mayor Ioann Abraham.

The museum's collection includes more than 30,000 exhibits: flags, military uniforms and equipment of the XVII-XX centuries, a collection of cold steel and firearms, paintings and graphics on the Russian-Turkish wars, archeology and everyday life, numismatics.

The diorama in the Small Mosque is a department of the Izmail Military History Museum.

The Old Believer Church of John the Theologian was built in Stara Nekrasivka at the end of the 19th century.

The interior is decorated with an iconostasis made according to Old Believer canons with icons of the 17th century, brought to Stara Nekrasivka by the Don Cossacks from Nekrasivka.

The winter church and Sunday school of the Old Believers are nearby.

The Church of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian in Pokrovka is located on a high hill on the left bank of the Tylihul River.

The foundation of the church took place in 1894, and the consecration took place in 1911. The construction was carried out at the expense of General Semenov and the landowner Kondratskyi.

The temple is made in pseudo-Rus style, made of red brick, has 11 domes. In Pokrovka, there is an opinion that the Church of John the Theologian is a copy of Saint Michael's Cathedral in Vienna or Saint Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg.

During the Second World War, the Church of John the Theologian was used as an infirmary. Returned to the Orthodox community in 1989.

The Memorial Museum of the poet, journalist, and national hero of Bulgaria, Khrysto Botev, was opened in 2008 in the village of Zadunaivka in the Odesa region, where he taught in 1866.

The museum exposition is located in three halls. The first hall tells about the subjugation of Bulgaria by the Ottoman Empire and the resettlement of Bulgarian refugees to neighboring lands. The second hall is dedicated to the life and work of Khrysto Botev - here are presented Botev's works, newspapers in which he was published, bibliographical literature, and the poet's reading circle. The third hall tells the story of the founding of the village of Zadunaivka by Bulgarian immigrants. The museum exposition presents not only documents, books, and household items of Bulgarians, but also panels with images of contemporaries - residents of Zadunaivka.

The Khrysto Botev Museum is a branch of the Odesa Literary Museum.