In the Admiralty, this Russian Classical building was the seat for a long line of Black Sea Fleet commanders from 1794 to 1900. In 12 rooms there are almost 3,000 objects on shipbuilding and navigation on the Black Sea, Ukraine’s rivers and the Mediterranean.
This starts in antiquity and also covers the Kievan Rus in medieval times and the Zaporizhian Cossacks in the early modern age.
You’ll see Mykolaiv’s military shipyards at their peak in the 19th century in a massive diorama.
The city’s extensive civilian shipbuilding activity in the 21st century is also revealed, at companies like “Shipyard named after 61 Communards”, which has been in...
Read moreA museum with the history of Shipbuilding in Nikolaev, the main activity of the city since its was borne. The replicas of all the ships are incredible for the details. It includes paintings, documents and tools. However, what is incredibly is the different amount of different ships build here over the years. If you wonder in which place the old soviet empire built those war ships and submarines, it was here. Even the city, during the soviet times, was close to tourism because the projects developed here. Sadly, now all those industry is almost out of business. The Museum captures with detal a...
Read moreA nice museum with many exhibition halls. You can see the models of different ships, "pieces" of history. Amazing dioramas. I enjoyed the dioramas most of all, especially the one about assembling and molding submarine Maliutka. They also allowed us to ring one of the bells, which our son, who's one year and a half,...
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