The Directory's pages for Ukraine describe the lighthouses as they existed before the start of the current conflict between Ukraine and Russia. No changes will be made until there is a stable agreement that stops the fighting. Ukraine (officially Україна, Ukraina) is a large country on the north side of the Black Sea, bordering Russia. Except for a brief period of independence during the Russian Revolution (1917-20), Ukraine was part of Russian or Soviet empires from the mid seventeenth century until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. However, the coastline of the Black Sea was mostly under the control of the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire until it was taken by Russia during a series of wars in the second half of the 1700s. The Black Sea's northern coast is in several sections. In the west is the Bight of Odessa, named for Ukraine's largest port. In the center is the diamond shaped peninsula of Crimea. To the east is the Sea of Azov, connected to the rest of the Black Sea by the narrow Kerch Strait at the eastern end of Crimea. Ukraine is divided into provinces called oblasts (область), and the oblasts are divided into county-level districts called raions (райони). This page includes the lighthouses of the Odessa Oblast, the westernmost section of the Ukrainian coast. The Ukrainian word for a lighthouse is mayak (маяк); ostriv (острів) is an island, mys (мис) is a cape, richka (річка) is a river, and havan' (гавань) is a harbor. Lighthouses in Ukraine are maintained by the Derzhhidrohrafiyu, the hydrography and navigation service of the Ministry of Transport and Communications. ARLHS numbers are from the ARLHS World List of Lights. UA numbers are the Ukrainian light list numbers as reported by Ukrainian Lighthouses on the Air. Admiralty numbers are from volume N of the Admiralty List of Lights & Fog Signals. U.S. NGA List numbers are from Publication 113. The Ukrainian light list, Вогні і знаки Чорного та Азовського морів (Lights and Signs of the Black and Azov Seas), is not available online.
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![]() Port Yuzhnyi Upper Range Front (left) and Rear Lights, June 2019 contributed photo copyright Javier Ortuño García; used by permission |
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![]() Stvornyy (Odessa Range Rear) Light, June 2019 photo copyright Javier Ortuño García; used by permission |
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![]() Odessa (Fontana) Light, Odessa unattributed photo from lighthouse21v.narod.ru (no longer online) |
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![]() 2010 Sanzhiika Light, July 2012 ex-Panoramio photo copyright Alex Helgi; used by permission |
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Posted February 19, 2007. Checked and revised September 22, 2021. Lighthouses: 37. Site copyright 2021 Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.