Attractions of Odesa region

The old building of the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Pedagogical Vocational College was built in 1900 for a male gymnasium.

An architectural monument of local importance.

There is a large square in front of the choir, where local residents like to relax.

Arboretum Peremohy (Victory) in the resort district of Odesa Arkadiya was founded in 1960. It occupies an area of 55 hectares.

More than 500 species of trees and shrubs, including heat-loving exotics, have been planted in the park. On Druzhba Avenue, trees were planted by cosmonauts Valeriy Bykovsky, Heorhiy Shonin, and members of hero city delegations. There is a system of artificial ponds with fountains.

Many scenes of the film "Adventures of Electronics" were filmed here.

Peremohy Park is considered one of the best in Odesa, especially after the recent reconstruction.

The Petrographic and Mineralogical Museum of the Odesa National University named after Illya Mechnykov is one of the oldest museums in Odesa and the Odesa region. Its collections include more than 10 thousand samples of minerals and rocks that reflect the material composition of the Earth's crust and the bottom of the World Ocean.

The history of the museum begins with the collection of the Ryshelevsky Lyceum, on the basis of which the Imperial University was opened in 1865. After the disbandment of the University by the Soviet authorities in 1921, the museum room with the collection resumed its activities in 1933 and received the status of the Petrographic and Mineralogical Museum.

The basis of the exposition part of the museum is the systematic collections of minerals and rocks. Thematic expositions on crystallography, genetic mineralogy, ontogeny of minerals, and geochemistry of minerals are presented separately. Along with natural minerals, an exposition of a large group of synthetic minerals is presented.

The meteorite collection stands out in particular. The main groups of meteorites are presented - iron, stony and iron-stone. Among them are meteorites that fell in the Odesa region. These are the "Odesa" and "Hrosslibental" meteorites.

Among the scientific collections, the collection of iron-manganese formations of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, collected in the 80s during scientific voyages, is of particular value.

The exposition presents mineral formations of the Odessa catacombs and karst caves. Regional collections of minerals and rocks represent, first of all, Ukraine with its geological diversity. Of other regional collections, collections of minerals and rocks of the Urals, the Far East, Central Asia, Western and Central Europe (France, Germany, Czech Republic) are of interest.

The geological and mineralogical museum is forming a collection of artifacts of the Sabotinovska and Chernyakhivska cultures found in the Odesa region. The artifacts are represented by tools made of rocks. Their research is carried out within the framework of a new direction - archaeological geology, which uses geological research methods, in particular mineralogical and petrographic, to reconstruct the distribution routes of materials and tools in the Northern Black Sea region.

The Museum of the History of the City of Pivdenne is located in the city center in the premises of the Druzhba House of Culture.

The museum exposition is presented to visitors in three exhibition halls: "Ukrainian Svitlytsya", "History of Pivdenne from the First Peg" and "Modernity".

The first hall exhibits artifacts of the past found during the construction of the Odesa Port Plant (shards, coins, rings), as well as depicts the 40-year history of Pivdenne itself - photos of the city when it was still a cornfield, the beginning of the Odesa Port Plant, photos of people who built the first houses, household items and furniture of residents who came to the new settlement.

The "Ukrainian Svitlytsya" hall recreates the traditional life of a Ukrainian village of the late 19th - early 20th centuries. There is a stove, a chest, embroidered shirts and towels, a baby cradle, and an old Gospel.

The "Modernity" Hall is dedicated to honoring the memory of the Heroes of the Russian-Ukrainian War.

The Podilsk City Museum of Local Lore was opened in the then Kotovsk in 1961.

It was originally housed in a historic building of the beginning of the 20th century and was dedicated mainly to the Bolshevik leader Heorhiy Kotovsky, the commander of the Red Army units and an active participant in the "Red Terror" on the territory of Ukraine, who died in Odesa and was buried in the mausoleum in Podilsk. The exposition also told about the history of the city, its economic and cultural development.

In 1980, an art gallery was opened, where the works of local artists are presented: Leonid Hryhorashchenko, Mykola Slipchenko and others.

Since 2008, the Podilsk Museum of Local Lore has been located in the city's cultural center. It has three exhibition halls on the history and nature of the region. The picture gallery is also used for exhibitions of works by folk craftsmen.

The Rare Book Museum of the Scientific Library of the Odesa National University named after Ilya Mechnykov was opened in February 1979.

The Rare Book Museum's collection consists of rare and valuable publications selected from the general storage fund. Together with the library's personal collections, the museum's collection includes about 100 thousand publications.

Incunabula - books from the "cradle" period of book printing (the second half of the 15th century) - are represented by works on law, history and mathematics published in Nuremberg, Padua, Venice. The collection of 16th-century publications includes about 500 books in Latin, French, German, Italian, Czech, Polish, Greek, English. It presents publications by famous printers of Western Europe: Aldi, Giunta, Etsn, Plantin, Froben and other publishers.

Among the masterpieces of Ukrainian printing of the 16th century are the famous "Ostroh Bible" by Ivan Fedorov, and the book of the prominent theologian of the 4th century, Sфште Basil of Caesarea from Cappadocia - "On Fasting".

The library's holdings include lifetime editions of political and historical treatises by Hugo Grotius, Thomas Hobbes and John Milton, works by the great Czech educator Yan Amos Comenius, the famous Italian anatomist, botanist and physicist Marcello Malpighi, and the English physiologist William Harvey. The collection includes examples of the activities of the Elsevier House (Holland).

The collection of 18th century publications includes works by prominent European philosophers, scientists, writers, and travelers of that time.

The library presents lifetime and rare editions of classics of Ukrainian literature by Ivan Kotlyarevsky, Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, and Lesya Ukrayinka.

Of exceptional value is the so-called Radzivill Bible, printed in Brzeg (Brest-Litovsk) in 1563 - the first translation of the Bible into Polish.

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 Rozdilna National Museum of History and Local Lore of the Rozdilna City Council was founded in 1987. The museum fund has more than 2000 exhibits.

The expositions chronologically cover the period from the end of the 18th century, when the settlement of the region began, to the present day.

In particular, the photo exhibition "Look into the history of Rozdilna" with original photos of the beginning of the XX century is presented.

The Saint Archangel Michael Church in Odesa was founded in 1828.

After the completion of construction in 1833, the church had two side altars: in the name of the Holy Prophet Ilya and in the name of the icon of the Mother of God Feodorivska.

In 1841, a 3rd-class monastery was founded at the church. The construction of the monastery was carried out with the assistance of Odesa merchants. An asylum for round orphans of the spiritual rank was opened at the monastery, later transformed into the Diocesan Women's School. Since then, the monastery has become a center of charity, charity and spirituality, and later became famous for its icon painting and sewing of robes.

In 1923, the monastery was closed, and in 1931, the Archangel Michael Cathedral and the bell tower were blown up. The monastery premises were transferred to the Higher Agricultural School. During the Romanian occupation, in 1942, the monastery was reopened and it remained active for almost 20 years.

The revival of the Archangel Michael monastery began in 1991. A monastery shelter was erected on the territory - a modern building of the House of Mercy, a chapel was built, and the "Christian Odesa" museum was opened.

Subordinate to the Russian Orthodox Church.

The Church of Saint. Barbara in Dobroslav (formerly Antonovo-Kodyntseve) was founded in 1818 by the landowner Captain Kolmohorov.

The temple was stone, with one throne. In 1862, a parish school was opened with him.

During Soviet times, the church was destroyed. In 1995, the construction of the new Saint Barbara Church began on the former site, according to the project of the architect Oleksandr Malakhovskyi. In 2002, during the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the founding of the village of Dobroslav, the revival of the church of Saint Barbara was consecrated.

Saint George's Church was built in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi in 1840 according to the project of the architect Zaushkevych on the order of the Bulgarian community of the city.

There was a church cemetery near the church, which was closed together with the church in 1934. Here are the graves of the family of Princes Volkonsky, who made large donations for the upkeep of the church.

Today the Saint George's Church is active.

The Church of Saint Mitrofan in Bolhrad is the temple-tomb of General Ivan Inzov, the guardian of foreign settlements on the territory of Bessarabia, which the Russian Empire conquered in 1806-1812.

General Inzov paid special attention to the situation of the Bulgarian immigrants who founded Bolhrad. In particular, with his efforts, the Bulgarians were equalized in rights with the German colonists.

During his lifetime, Inzov expressed his desire "that his ashes lie in Bolhrad after his death." The cemetery rotunda church of Saint Mitrofan was built in 1840-1844. After Inzov's death in 1845 in Odesa, residents of Bolhrad carried the coffin with his remains on their shoulders to Bolhrad and buried them in the Saint Mitrofan Church, which became Inzov's mausoleum. The restored hearse of Inzov, which was never used for its intended purpose, is stored in the church. The words carved on the tombstone: "...He gave the envoys a new life in the new Motherland. The grateful Bulgarian colonists wished to transfer the ashes of the perpetrator of their prosperity to the depths of their settlement to preserve his name in the memory of the people."

Saint Nicholas Cathedral in Ovidiopol was built in 1823.

It is known that even in Turkish times there was a Cathedral Orthodox Church of Nicholas the Wonderworker here. After the founding of Ovidiopol and the construction of the harbor, a new Nicholas Church was built next to the port, but it soon burned down.

The current Saint Nicholas Cathedral in the style of classicism was built on the same place. The Orthodox Water Rescue Society operated for him. Restoration has been carried out in recent years.

Saint Nicholas Church was built in the village of Shabo, probably in 1805 - this is the date indicated on the plaque at the entrance.

The church is two-domed, cruciform in plan. Its architecture is similar to the Old Believer churches of Besarabiya.

The Saint Nicholas Church houses the miraculous icon "The Flagellation of the Lord Jesus Christ" and the miraculous myrrh-flowing "Image of the Mother of God the Prompt Obedient".

Next to the church is the healing spring of Saint Nicholas.

The Saint Nicholas Church is active. It is an architectural monument of local importance.

Saint Nicholas Church in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi was built in 1867 at the expense of local resident Herasym Ovchynnikov. Since its construction, the temple has not undergone any changes.

The architectural decor is not rich, the character is local, traditional. Modern painting on the facades and in the interior.

Next to the Saint Nicholas Church was the Oleksandr-Mariyinsky Heart Disease Asylum with a hospital, opened in 1868 by Lieutenant General Ivan Hanhardt (commanding chief of the Danube Cossack Army).