Ochakiv

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Ochakiv
Очаків
Coat of arms of Ochakiv
Ochakiv (Ukraine)
Ochakiv
Ochakiv
Basic data
Oblast : Mykolaiv Oblast
Rajon : District-free city
Height : no information
Area : 12.49 km²
Residents : 14,513 (2016)
Population density : 1,162 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 57500-57014
Area code : +380 5154
Geographic location : 46 ° 37 '  N , 31 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 36 '50 "  N , 31 ° 32' 44"  E
KOATUU : 4825100000
Administrative structure : 1 city
Address: вул. 50-річчя Жовтня 7-А
57500 м. Очаків
Statistical information
Ochakiv (Mykolaiv Oblast)
Ochakiv
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Otschakiw (Ukrainian Очаків ; Russian Очаков / Otschakow , Romanian Oceacov , Turkish-Crimean Tatar : Özü ) is a Ukrainian port city in the Mykolaiv Oblast with about 14,500 inhabitants and the administrative center of the raion of the same name .

Geographical location

Ochakiv is located on the Black Sea coast at the confluence of the Dnepr-Bug-Liman and the Berezan-Liman 59 km southwest of the Oblast center Mykolaiv and 67 km east of Odessa .

history

It is believed that a Greek colony existed in the 7th and 6th centuries BC on the site of today's city of Ochakiv. In the 14th century AD, the Lithuanian Grand Duke Vytautas the Great built a fortress called Dashiv on the same site. At the end of the 15th century, the northern coastal area on the Black Sea was under the control of the Crimean Khanate and the Crimean Tartars , who built a fortress. In a short time the Turks built up their power over the Tartars and steppes on the Black Sea.

The name Otschakiv comes from the Turkish name of the strengthened settlement Achi-Kale. In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Zaporozhian Cossacks conquered the Ochakiv fortress several times. Ochakiv was strategically located at the mouth of the Dnieper-Bug Estuary located fortress of the Ottomans and entered repeatedly emerged as the scene of Russian-Ottoman conflict.

Münchhausen , known as the " Baron of Lies " , claims to have performed his famous ride on the cannonball during the siege of this fortress in 1737 during the Russo-Austrian Turkish War .

January Suchodolski 1853: Storming of Ochakiv on December 6th, 1788

Rear Admiral Karl Heinrich von Nassau-Siegen (1743-1808) won the 1788 naval battle of Ochakov against a vastly superior Turkish fleet, after which the city was finally conquered by the Russian troops .

After the Russian conquest, the city grew rapidly, and its port made it an important trading center and center of the fishing industry.

Today there is a fish canning complex, several wineries and sewing shops in the city. There are some museums and some sanatoriums in the vicinity.

Population development

1897 1923 1926 1959 1970 1979 1989 2001 2005 2014 2016
10,786 4,702 4,674 8,473 12,529 14,918 18,976 16,929 15,551 14,553 14,513

Source:

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Ochakiv  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d XX. SOUTHERN UKRAINE (1), WESTERN PART: THE ODESA REGION in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on December 19, 2017
  2. ↑ Demography of Ukrainian cities on pop-stat.mashke.org