Attractions of Mykolaiv region

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 Saints Peter and Paul in the village of Stepove was built in 1881-1885 by German settlers.

The first Catholic church built in Stepove in 1820-1830 was made of limestone and straw. The new Peter and Paul Church in the neo-Gothic style was built of solid shell.

Currently, the dilapidated church belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate, but restoration work is not being carried out. Deprived of ceilings, the church building is gradually collapsing.

The ancient settlement "Wild Garden" in Mykolaiv 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".

The building of the Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Mykolaiv was built in 1794 in the style of classicism, designed by architect Illya Neyolov. For some time, the residence of the Black Sea Fleet Commander-in-Chief was located here.

Since 1978, the premises have been occupied by the Museum of Shipbuilding and Fleet. The exposition demonstrates the development of shipbuilding in the Northern Black Sea region from ancient times to the present - more than 100 models of ships of the XVIII-XX centuries. In particular, models of the first ship of the Mykolayiv shipyard - the 44-gun frigate "Saint Nicholas", the legendary 20-gun brig "Mercury", the rebellious battleship "Potemkin", the aircraft carrier "Kyiv", the research ship "Academic" are presented. Also presented are fragments of ancient ships, navigation devices, rare maps and documents.

One of the most interesting exhibits - a diorama "Construction of the first sailing ships on the Mykolaiv Admiralty".

In front of the house is the Alley of Fleet Commanders (busts of Ushakov, Lazarev, Bellingshausen, Nakhimov, etc.).

The Mykolaiv Museum of Shipbuilding and Fleet is a department of the regional local lore museum.

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 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.

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.

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 "Partyzanska Iskra" (Partisan Spark) Museum was founded in the village of Krymka in 1965 by Ivan Herasymenko, a member of the underground youth organization.

In 1985-1991, the museum underwent reconstruction, during which a large exhibition hall and a cinema hall were completed, a monument to a young underground fighter was erected against the backdrop of granite pylons, a stele near the mass grave was restored, and a young park was planted. After the reconstruction, the museum was granted the status of a memorial complex.

The main collection of the "Partyzanska Iskra " Museum contains 2,428 museum exhibits. The auxiliary collection includes 1,676 items. The oldest museum items date back to the late 19th - early 20th centuries.

The museum's exposition is located in two halls. Among the exhibits are photographs of members of the underground organization, their personal belongings (clothes, school supplies, drawings, musical instruments, sports equipment), documents, samples of weapons, postcards, maps, letters, a diorama.

The exhibition hall hosts various exhibitions from the museum's collections, exhibitions of creative works by artists, photographers, amateur craftsmen, local artists, and exhibitions of the Mykolaiv Museum of Local Lore, a branch of which is the "Partyzanska Iskra " Memorial Museum.

Regional landscape park "Pryinhulskyi" is located in the section of the valley of the Inhul River from the village of Rozanivka to the village of Sofiivka.

Precambrian granites come to the surface here, forming a picturesque landscape. Some of the most visible or colorful outcrops of crystalline rocks have their own names. There are several legends about some of them, such as the "Pugach", "Stovp" (or "Rock of the Stone Heroes"), "Sleeping Beauty", "Stina" or simply "Ustia" rocks near the mouth of the Berezovka River. at the confluence with the Inhul River.

South of the village of Rozanivka there is also "Stina" or "Crow's Rock", on which a pair of crows have been nesting since ancient times.

There are fantastically attractive granite outcrops - the "Stone Chimera Coast", a granite plateau at the confluence of the Stoupova River and the Inhul River, which is called the "Devil's City" and others.

Near the village of Sofiivka, an artificial canyon and a waterfall have been created - the spillway of the Sofiivka hydraulic system for rainwater and snowmelt.

Regional landscape park "Tylihulskyi" is located on the eastern coast of Tylihulskyi estuary.

It was created in 1995 with the aim of preserving valuable natural complexes and historical and cultural objects of Tylihul, creating conditions for organized tourism and recreation, conducting scientific research, and promoting ecological knowledge.

The Tylihul estuary is considered the cleanest on the Northwest Black Sea coast. In the area of the Tashin Bay and the mouth of the Tsarega River, there is one of the largest virgin steppe massifs in the south of Ukraine. 350 species of plants and 384 species of vertebrates. From the species of birds listed in the Red Book of Ukraine, the following can be found here: cormorant, stilt, sea plover, magpie wader, sandpiper, red heron, yellow heron and others. The estuary has large reserves of healing hydrogen sulfide mud.

There is practically no tourist infrastructure in the protected area, even in the high season the number of tourists is small.

The administration of the Tylihulskyi landscape park is located in the village of Berezanka, 20 kilometers east of the Tylihul estuary.

A monument to Vice-Admiral Stepan Makarov was erected in 1976 in his native city of Mykolaiv, on Flotskyi Boulevard.

Makarov was an outstanding polar explorer, scientist and naval theorist. A hero of the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878, during the war he successfully used torpedo weapons for the first time in the world.

The figure of the admiral was made of metal by sculptors Anatoliy Koptev and Oleksiy Sopelkin, and the pedestal is made of polished granite. The inscription on the pedestal reads: "Makarov Stepan Yosypovych. 1848-1904. Vice-admiral, outstanding naval commander and scientist. Born in Mykolaiv, died on the battleship "Petropavlivsk".

The Memorial Museum of Admiral Stepan Makarov was established in Mykolaiv in 1949 by teachers, staff and students of the Admiral Makarov National Shipbuilding University.

The museum is located in the main building of the university.

The museum's exposition presents exhibits that tell about the life and activities of the outstanding scientist, shipbuilder, and naval commander Admiral Stepan Makarov - ship models related to Admiral Makarov's service, a large number of photographs, issues of the "Maritime Collection" with the Admiral's scientific publications, and Admiral Makarov's books that were printed during his lifetime.

Among the museum's exhibits are many memorial items - a fragment of the ladder to the navigation bridge of the world's first icebreaker "Yermak", created according to the idea of ​​Admiral Makarov, and an armchair from the cabin of this icebreaker, and the diary of the senior mechanic of the icebreaker Ulashkevych, who, under the leadership of Admiral Makarov, took part in the second Arctic expedition, and a drawing of the first-rank cruiser "Admiral Makarov" from 1908.

Agrotourism complex "Kremenivsky Ostrich" invites you to get acquainted not only with ostriches, but also with other animals in the "contact zoo", where you can feed and pet them.

During the tour, visitors are told about the life and breeding of ostriches in captivity. At the ostrich farm, you can see how the incubation process takes place, see funny ostriches that look like hedgehogs and, of course, observe an adult bird.

A fenced recreation area is located separately from the ostrich enclosures. It is a landscaped area with an artificial pond. In the recreation area there are gazebos, a barbecue, children's playgrounds, as well as a guest house with a bathhouse.

Visitors are also offered a tasting lunch: borscht on ostrich broth, ostrich meat roast with salad, ostrich egg omelet, uzvar, homemade pastries.

Other services of the "Kremenivsky Ostrich" ostrich farm: working forge, paintball, buggy rental, shooting with air rifles, bows, crossbows.

The Church of All Saints is one of the oldest churches in Mykolaiv. City planner and founder of Mykolaiv Shipyard Mykhaylo Falyeyev is buried in the crypt of the church.

Nearby, in the Old Cemetery, is the crypt of Kharkiv University founder Vasyl Karazin.