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 Mykolaiv Oblast including the Bug River, the lower Dnipro-Bug estuary, and a short section of the Bight of Odessa 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 Derzhhidrohrafiyu, the hydrography and navigation service of the Ministry of Transport and Communications. Most of Ukraine's lighthouses were destroyed or heavily damaged during World War II (known in Ukraine and Russia as the Great Patriotic War), but most of them were restored to their original design and appearance after the war. 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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Russkaya Kosa Light, Lymany Derzhhidrohrafiyu photo |
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Stara Bohdanivka Range Rear Light, Stara Bohdanivka, August 2017 Google Maps street view by John Kavura |
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Kozyrsky Range Front Light, Kozyrka, May 2009 photo copyright Capt. Peter Mosselberger; used by permission |
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Dnipro-Bug skiy Range Front Light, Parutyne, May 2009 photo copyright Capt. Peter Mosselberger; used by permission |
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Vostochniy Range Rear Light, Dniprovska Bay photo copyright Capt. Peter Mosselberger; used by permission |
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Adzhygolskyy Range Middle Light, Dniprovska Bay photo copyright Douglas Cameron; used by permission |
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Dnipro-Limanskiy Range Front Light, Ochakiv photo copyright Capt. Peter Mosselberger used by permission |
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Karabush Light, Kobleve, May 2019 contributed photo copyright Javier Ortuño; used by permission |
Information available on lost lighthouses:
Notable faux lighthouses:
Adjoining pages: East: Ukraine: Dnipro Basin | West: Odessa Area
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Posted February 19, 2007. Checked and revised September 15, 2021. Lighthouses: 47. Site copyright 2021 Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.