Attractions of Mykolaiv region

The Arbuzynsky Canyon near the village of Aktove is also called the Small Aktivsky Canyon, "Valley of the Devil".

The granite rocks that form the relief of the Arbuzynka River valley were formed 4 billion years ago as a result of volcanic activity (it is believed that the volcano has not yet cooled, so violets sometimes bloom on the rocks even in winter). Here you can meet pheasants, turtles, hawks, muskrats, moles, bison, wild boars and even deer.

Arbuzynsky Canyon is a part of the National Nature Park "Buzky Gard". It is often confused with the larger and more difficult-to-access Aktivsky Canyon ("Devil's Valley"), located on the Mertvovod River behind the village of Aktove.

The view of both canyons opens simultaneously from the rock "Navel of the Earth" - the highest point of the tract.

The Yevhen Kibryk Art Museum presents a large collection of works by this graphic artist, who was born in Voznesensk in 1906.

The outstanding illustrator left a significant contribution to the history of this genre, his museum is considered one of the five museums of graphics in the world.

The Kybrik museum exhibits paintings and reproductions of the artist's works, in particular, illustrations to the works of Mykola Hohol.

The art museum is located in a modern building in the very center of Voznesensk.

Berezan is a small island at the entrance to the Dnipro estuary, described by Pushkin in "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" as Buyan (in Slavic mythology - a fairy-tale paradise island).

At the end of the 7th century BC (it was a peninsula before the sea level rose), the first ancient settlement of Borysthenes or Borysphenida, founded by natives of the Ionian city of Miletus, appeared here in the Northern Black Sea region. Later, it was a stronghold of the ancient Rus on the way "From the Varangians to the Greeks".

Remains of the Turkish fortification of the 18th century, reinforced concrete fortifications from 1910, batteries from the Second World War, a chapel and a monument at the place of the shooting of Lieutenant Schmidt (1906) have been preserved.

Berezan Island is part of the Olbia National Reserve. Visiting is limited - archaeological research is underway. Excursions are organized in Ochakiv.

Beykush winery is a small family winery started in 2010.

The vineyards are located on Cape Beykush, between the Berezan estuary and Beykush Bay, near Ochakiv.

Wines by classic technology: manual grape picking, gentle transportation, manual picking of berries, gentle pressing and other manual technological operations.

The monument to Brigadier Ivan Horych is the most unusual in Ochakiv. An eagle with spread wings sits on top of a pyramid of 30 cannonballs.

During the assault on Ochakiv by Russian troops and Black Sea Cossacks, Horych commanded the 6th column, which was tasked with directly attacking the fortress. At the head of the column, the brigadier was one of the first to climb the fortress wall and heroically died in battle.

The monument to Horych was installed in the square at the intersection of Schmidt and Lotsmanska Streets. Authors: sculptor Yuriy Makushyn and architect Oleksiy Rudenko.

The Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the oldest church in Mykolaiv. It was built in 1800 with donations from Mykolaiv merchants, so it was called the Old Merchant Church.

The 38-meter-high classicist building has powerful walls made of hewn tortoiseshell stone. Later, two side altars were added, the church became the city diocesan cathedral. In 1876, a belfry was built, a huge bell weighing more than 8 tons was installed in it.

The cathedral was closed in 1938, the premises housed the officers' garrison house. Since 1992, the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin has been operating again. A new iconostasis with its original appearance was installed.

The Cathedral of the Kasperivska Icon of the Mother of God is distinguished by ancient Rus architectural forms (architect Fedir Eppinher), due to disputes over which the construction was delayed for three decades.

The main shrine, in honor of which the church is named, was the icon most revered by the inhabitants of Tavriya province during the Crimean War.

In Soviet times, the building was a club of the Plant named after 61 Communards.

The Cathedral of the Kasperivska icon of the Mother of God was returned to believers in 1992, and reconstruction was carried out. Currently, it is the cathedral of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in Mykolaiv.

Flotskyi Boulevard in Mykolaiv is a shady pedestrian embankment over the Inhul River that vaguely resembles Primorsky Boulevard in Odesa.

It offers a view of the river, bridges and Peremoha Park on the opposite bank. In honor of the founding of the city, a memorial sign - an ancient cannon - was installed.

In 2002, a monument to Prince Hrihoriy Potemkin's associate Colonel Mykhaylo Faleyev, who oversaw the construction of the city and the shipyard, was erected nearby. At the other end of Fleet Boulevard is a monument to Admiral Stepan Makarov (1976), a famous scientist and naval commander.

Traces of an ancient border post of the Zaporizhzhian Cossacks have been preserved on a hill above the Pivdeny Buh near Ivanivka near Pivdennoukrainsk.

On Richchi Zannoni 's map of 1767, this place is marked as the border fortress "Wanderer". Now there are only a few dozen stones in its place, as well as an ancient stone road leading to the Pivdeny Buh. Very nice places.

George Redoubt at the entrance to the former village of Mala Korenykha (now Mykolaiv District) is part of the fortification system created during the Crimean War of 1853-1856 by the project of the famous engineer Eduard Totleben.

The redoubt covered the approaches to the Kostyantynivska Battery. Many guns, a powder cellar, barracks and everything necessary for people's daily life were placed inside. Significant earthen ramparts have been preserved.

The Hard tract in the granite canyon of the Pivdennyi Buh River is one of the most picturesque places of the Buzkyi Hard National Nature Park (formerly the Regional Landscape Park "Granite-Steppe Pobuzhzhya").

"Hard" was the name of a special structure for catching fish, built by Zaporizhzhia Cossacks back in the 16th century. After the creation of Nova Sich in 1740, the Buho-Hard palanque of the Zaporizhzhia Nizove Army was formed on these lands, the military-administrative center of which was the settlement of Hard (present-day Bohdanivka opposite Pivdennoukrainsk). There was a ferry crossing across the Pivdennyi Buh on Hard Island, for the protection of which the Buho-Hard armed border post was built.

The remains of the Cossack fortress and the wooden church on Hard Island were preserved until the middle of the 20th century. In the 1970s, the Yuzhnoukrainsk NPP was built at the confluence of the Pivdennyi Buh and its left tributary Velikiy Tashlyk, a Cossack church was destroyed on Hard Island, and granite rocks were blown up. In 2006, during the construction of the Tashlytska HPP, the Hard threshold was flooded.

The remains of the island itself still exist, but are divided into two parts. The hanging rocks of the canyon are a favorite place for climbing competitions. Porig Hard is one of the most difficult sections of rafting on the Pivdennyi Buh.

The Holy Intercession Church is the only architectural structure preserved in Pervomaisk from the 19th century.

The traditional church was built in 1805 in the style of classicism. In 1839, a bell tower was built nearby.

It is located on the territory of the former Polish settlement of Bohopol, which later became part of Pervomaisk.

The Church of the Holy Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in Voznesensk was built in 1891.

It is located in the Bolharka district, which was a suburb of Voznesensk, at the intersection of Bolharska Street and Titova Street.

It was one of the four Orthodox churches of the city. The only one that survived.

The Church of the Holy Spirit was built in 1857 on the then outskirts of Mykolaiv, in the village of Bohoyavlenske, at the expense of the villagers with the active financial assistance of the merchant Kostyantyn Sobolev.

It was closed in Soviet times. In 1941, the German occupiers allowed religious services to be held and the church was reopened. During the retreat of the Germans, the church was destroyed.

It was restored in its original form in 1992-1997.

The Turkish fortress of Kinburn was built in the 15th century on the Kinburn spit at the mouth of the Dnipro.

In 1736, it was captured and destroyed by the Russian detachment of General Leontiev, but rebuilt by the Turks. According to the Kyuchuk-Kainardzhii peace treaty in 1774, the Kinburn fortress went to Russia. In 1787, during the Second Russo-Turkish War, a Turkish landing force of janissaries trying to take over Kinburn's fortifications was completely defeated by the garrison under the leadership of Oleksandr Suvorov, which allowed the Russians to soon capture the Turkish fortress of Ochakiv. The Ukrainian Cossacks of the Black Sea Flotilla took an active part in this battle.

In October 1855, the Kinburn fortress was attacked by the Anglo-French fleet, surrendered and has not been restored since then.

Earthen ramparts and a ditch crossing the spit from north to south to the west of the village of Pokrovske have been preserved.