Attractions of Izmail district

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 Old Believer Church of the Kazan Icon of the Holy Virgin was built in Prymorske in 1903 by Old Believers-Lypovans, who form the basis of the village's population.

The church is single-domed, with an attached high bell tower. Much decorated. There is a wonderful iconostasis in the interior.

The Kiliia Museum of History and Local Lore was opened in 1964. It is located in an old house built in the middle of the 19th century by a wealthy Jewish grocer, Rebbe Kahane.

The number of exhibits in the museum is 2,100. The exposition highlights such historical topics as ancient times, Greek and Byzantine colonization of the Danube region, Kiliia during the Tatar-Mongol invasion, the reign of the Moldavian princes, the Cossack era and the period of the Russo-Turkish wars, the region during the Romanian occupation, Tatarbunary period of the Second World War wars, recent history.

Excursion service for organized groups on routes through the city is carried out at pre-arranged times, including on weekends.

The Local Lore Museum of the village of Kotlovyna is located in the school building. One of the halls is dedicated to the history of the village, the second to the history of the school, and the third to ethnography and the history of the Gagauz people.

The museum is filled with various antiquities that were once used by the villagers. In addition to ancient and medieval ceramics, stone tools of the Neolithic era, an old student desk and a pioneer furnace, photographs, here you can get acquainted with tools, household items, clothing and other artifacts of traditional local Gagauz culture, as well as with the works of art of Kotlovyna artists, among whom Petro Chekirov and Viktor Chernov are widely known.

Special cauldrons used only by the Gagauz for preparing a ritual dish - "kurban" - are located here next to children's toys, carefully carved from wood or molded from clay. Also interesting are the traditions of Gagauz winemaking, the symbol of which even appeared on the coat of arms of Kotlovyna.

During the excursion, you can clearly see how the Gagauz lived in ancient times, what their houses looked like, how women and men dressed, and learn the personal stories of some families in the village.

A monument to the legendary founder of the village of Lypovanske, from which the modern Vylkove originates, was installed on the city pier for the 250th anniversary of the city.

It was founded in the 18th century by Orthodox Old Believers from Lypovans who were hiding from the persecution of the reformed Russian Orthodox Church. It is believed that the traditions of seafaring in Vylkove were laid down by fugitive Zaporozhian Cossacks who also settled here.

The monument of the work of the Odesa sculptor Oleksandr Tokarev depicts a plastered pioneer with a cross in his hands, descending to the shore from a boat. The sculpture is installed near the wharf, from which excursions along the Vylkove canals and the Danube floodplains usually depart.

The Old Believer Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in Vylkove was built in 1854-1857.

According to legend, the temple stands on the site of the first wooden church, which was built in the 18th century by the Old Believers who moved to these regions, Lypovans. The bell tower with a height of 32 meters was added 19 years after the construction of the main building.

In 1954, the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary was closed by the Soviet authorities, and in 1980, part of the building burned down. In the 1990s, the revival of the church began. The bell tower offers a magnificent panorama of Vylkove, the Danube, and the canals.

Nicholas church - a new Old Believer church, built at the beginning of the 20th century on the territory of the village of Novo-Vylkove, on the island of Kalymbeika.

The church is clearly visible from the Danube and is admired by all who come to the city by water. The light and dark blue colors of the walls against the background of the sky create a floating effect.

The interior decoration of the Nicholas Church corresponds to Lipovan traditions - the church is divided into men's and women's halves, benches are provided only for elderly and sick people.

The author's historical and local lore museum was created in Vylkove by the artist Oleksandr Sharonov in 2002. The museum is located in the city center.

The exposition was based on 54 artistic canvases of the artist, as well as icons, household items of the Old Believers and other peoples who lived on the territory of Bessarabia (Antians, Goths, Greeks, Scythians, Romans, Turks and others).

The museum exhibits weapons from the times of Transdanubian Sich, Russian-Turkish wars, and World War II.

The Reni Historical and Local Lore Museum is located in the city center.

The museum's collection is dedicated to the past and present of the Reni community. The exhibition presents documents from the history of the region, antiques and local life, and examples of applied and fine arts.

The new exhibition is dedicated to honoring the memory of the Heroes of the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian War.

In a separate exhibition hall, exhibitions of local artists and days of national cultures are regularly held.

The Saint Nicholas Church in Vylkove is called "Ukrainian".

The Orthodox church of the new rite was founded here in 1818 and 7 years later it was consecrated in the name of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker. Although, according to legend, the first wooden temple was built in Vylkove by Zaporizhzhian Cossacks who moved here at the end of the 18th century.

In 1902, a new stone church was built at the expense of the parishioners on the site of the wooden church. Baroque and modern ideas are intertwined in its architecture. The iconostasis was created under the influence of the works of Master Faberge. The church keeps relics brought by the people of Vylkove from different countries.

The unique semi-underground Saint Nicholas Church in Kiliia was founded in 1485, at the beginning of the period of Turkish rule on the Danube.

The Turks did not forbid the Orthodox to build churches, but they demanded that Orthodox churches not exceed the height of a mosque (according to another version, a janissary on a horse). In order for the building to retain its functionality, the builders had to sink it into the ground by more than 2 meters.

The Saint Nicholas Church acquired its current appearance in 1891, when a high bell tower was added to it.

The Church of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Tsars Kostyantyn and Olena was built in the village of Katlabuh in 1888. It is an architectural monument of local importance.

The temple is made according to a typical diocesan project in the neo-Rus style.

The interior of the church has preserved interior paintings and an iconostasis.

The Church of Saints Kostyantyn and Olena in Katlabug belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The memorial sign on the southern edge of the Struve Geodetic Arc in Stara Nekrasivka is often called the "Meridian Monument".

The Struve Arc is a network of 265 triangulation points, which are stone cubes embedded in the ground with an edge length of 2 meters. The length of the arc is more than 2,820 kilometers. It runs from the coast of the Arctic Ocean near Cape Nord Cape to the mouth of the Danube.

It was created in 1816-1855 by academician Vasyl Struve with the aim of determining the shape and dimensions of the Earth.

The equestrian monument to the general Suvorov, who led the capture of the Turkish fortress Izmail in 1790, was made in 1913 by the Odesa sculptor Borys Eduards for the memorial in Rymnik (Romania).

Shortly after the beginning of the First World War, the sculpture was evacuated. For a long time, she stood in the workshop of a sculptor in Odesa. According to another version, the Roman sculpture disappeared during the war, and Edwards' workshop kept a copy, which he created specifically for the installation of the monument in Ishmael. Only in 1945, the statue was transported to Izmail and installed on the central avenue of the city. A copy of this monument was installed in Tulchyn (Vinnytsia region).

On December 1, 2022, during the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war, the monument to Suvorov in Izmail was dismantled by the decision of the deputies of the Izmail City Council. The further fate of this monument should be determined by the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine.