Attractions of Odesa region

The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built in Tatarbunary in 1877 on the site of a small wooden church founded in 1814.

The one-seat Holy Assumption Church has the shape of a cross. This is one of the few churches in Bessarabiya that was never closed even during the height of Soviet atheism.

The Holy Assumption Church was built in the village of Kotlovyna in 1938.

Construction began in 1914, but was stopped a year later due to the outbreak of World War I. After the war, the area came under Romanian rule, but the construction of the church was continued and it was officially opened in 1938.

In 1944, the church was closed by the Soviet authorities. Divine services resumed after Ukraine gained independence.

The Holy Assumption Church in Kotlovyna is the only church in Ukraine where part of the church services are held in the Gagauz language.

The Holy Assumption Church (or "White Church") was founded in Biliaivka in 1794 and is one of the oldest churches in the Odesa region. The first church was made of willow stakes covered with clay and whitened every year. This is why this church was nicknamed "White Church" by the people, which it still has today.

A new stone church was built in 1873. During the Soviet regime, the church was closed, the dome was destroyed, and the rector of the church was shot near the church gate. In 1943, during the Romanian occupation, services in the Holy Assumption Church were resumed and the church was reconstructed. In the 1950s, with the return of Soviet power, the church was closed again. The church building was used as a workshop for a long time.

After Ukraine gained independence in the 1990s, the restoration of the church began. In the interior of the Holy Assumption Church, a fresco depicting Saint Onuphrius has been preserved, which has been painted over many times, but the image of the saint has appeared through the paint.

The Holy Assumption Church is an architectural monument of local importance. It is used by the Odesa Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.

The Holy Assumption Monastery is the most famous abode in Odesa, founded by Metropolitan Havryil.

Since 1946, the summer residence of the Moscow Patriarchs was located here, the monastery was named Patriarchy, and the Odesa Theological Seminary was transferred here. The building of the patriarchal residence has been preserved on the territory.

The first stone temple was built in 1825 on the site of a wooden one (it was later destroyed by the Bolsheviks). In 1834, a second monastery church with a bell tower was built in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Life-giving Source" (now Uspensky) with the funds donated to the temple by the Odesa merchant Dariya Kharlambu.

Currently, the Holy Assumption Monastery houses the miraculous icon of the Mother of God "The Milkmaid", painted by Athos monks in the 17th century.

The Cathedral of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God in Izmail is the main temple of the city.

It was built in the center of Izmail in 1820-1831, during the heyday of urban planning, in the house of an old wooden temple from Turkish times. The cathedral in the style of classicism was built according to the project of the architect Avraam Melnykov, professor of architecture and rector of the Moscow Academy of Arts (according to another version - Heorhiy Torichelli).

At first it was a simple one-domed temple. Next to it in 1848, a 65-meter three-tier bell tower was built, the bells for which were cast from the metal of captured Turkish cannons. A little later, the bell tower was connected to the cathedral by a covered gallery, and above it was built the upper temple of Nicholas the Wonderworker. The distinct oval colonnade was built in 1837. As a result, the form of the Holy Intercession Cathedral began to vaguely resemble the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg.

The interior was painted in the Art Nouveau style by the artist Pavlo Piskarev, a student of Viktor Vasnetsov.

At the beginning of the 20th century, a clock with a battle was installed on the belfry, which is still going on.

The Holy Intercession Cathedral in Kiliia was built in 1822-1836 according to the project of the architect Abraham Melnikov.

In 1895, a bell tower was added to the new cathedral.

Local residents call the church a "Ukrainian church" as opposed to Old Believer churches.

The Holy Intercession Church is a business card of the village of Starokozache.

The beautiful red brick building in the center of the village was laid in 1908, but construction was delayed, interrupted first by the First World War, then by the Bolshevik coup and the establishment of Soviet power. Work resumed only in 1929 during the Romanian occupation, and was completely completed in 1937.

The Church of the Intercession is built according to the type of cathedral in the shape of a cross. The bell tower was originally much higher, but after the church was closed by the Soviet authorities in 1962, it was destroyed.

Restoration began in 1989. In particular, the original paintings have been restored.

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 Tatyana 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".