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City

Mykolaiv is located in the southern part of Ukraine, about 600 km (375 miles) south-east of Kyiv, 150 km (90 miles) from Odesa and 80 km (50 miles) from the Black Sea. The city is situated between two rivers - the South Bug and the Ingul. The city was named by Prince Potemkin in honor of St. Nikolaj 209 years ago. From ancient times Mykolaiv has been the center of shipbuilding. It is one of the ten largest cities in Ukraine. Its population is 518,400, including people of different nationalities, mostly Ukrainians and Russians, but also Jewish, Bulgarians, Koreans, Germans, Polish.

The city was founded in 1789 by the Order Of Count Potyomkin of Tavria as a shipbuilding center to become the major shipbuilding base of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. Since then, the craft and the skill of shipbuilders and engineers have grown constantly from generation to generation. Mykolaiv is also a part of a unique nature and complex climate made up by the South Ukraine steppe and the warm Black Sea.

Culture

Presently a lot of the artist's famous paintings are kept here in Mykolaiv in a museum that bears his name. In an observatory constructed in 1821 is a unique collection of devices for the observation of celestial bodies. Having come to visit us, you will acquaint yourself with a land rich in history and culture which still keeps some secrets. We invite you to come and visit us!!!

Sights and things to do include the Mykolaiv Theater of Ukrainian Drama and Musical Comedy (founded in 1959), the Museum of Arts with the paintings by local artistst such as Aivazovski, Bogaievski and Yablonska. Furthermore Mykolaiv has some monuments built in the style of classicism: best known are the Museum of Shipbuilding and the Church of Nicholas.

Mykolaiv Zoo is a place you must visit. Mykolaiv Zoo was founded by Mykolaiv city mayor Nikolai Pavlovich Leontovich. As he himself wrote in the report to the Mykolaiv District Executive Committee in 1923, the zoo, named then Aquarium, was founded on 26 April 1901. Since 1988 there exists Museum of the Zoo History in the territory of the Zoo. Materials for Museum had been accumulated as far back as the beginning of eighties.

In Museum one can see documents, photos, things belonging to Leontovich and Nichikov, written recollections of their relatives and collaborators, collection of sculls and stuffed animals and birds that used to live in the Zoo and also collection of eggs, schemes, maps and guide books of our and those of other zoos. Its the only museum of the kind in Ukraine. Museum is very important for the Zoo because it preserves the experience and the memory about former generations of the Zoo workers.

Name of the city

There are several variations of the city's name. In Ukrainian, the city is named Mykolaiv, also seldom Mykolayiv. The Russian name is Mykolaiv, which translates to Mykolaiv or Nikolayev.

Economy

Today Mykolaiv is a major ship building center of Ukraine (as, earlier, of the whole Soviet union) and an important riverport. The city has 3 major shipyards some of which are capable of building large navy ships. Other important industries are mechanical engineering, power engineering, metallurgy and cosmetics.

Territory

The city is built on territory of ancient antiquity with an unmapped network of catacombs, of an antiquity much older than the famous Odesa Catacombs, near the ancient Greek city-state Ol'viya. Mykolaiv has remarkable parks and reserves. The highest part of the South Bug River is named "Ukrainian Switzerland" because of a beautiful landscape with fast rivers, thresholds and covered rocks as in kazak's legends. The well known artist V.V. Vereshagin lived and worked in Mykolaiv.