Beryslav

A city on the right bank of the Kakhovskoye reservoir near Nova Kakhovka. In the III-IV centuries. on this place was the capital of the Ostrogothic kingdom Danparstadt, in the 15th century. - Lithuanian customs office "Vitovtova Banya" at the Tavan ferry. From in the XVI century. - the Turkish fortress Kyzy-Kermen (Maiden Fortress), in 1695 it was captured by the combined troops of Hetman Mazepa and the governor Sheremetyev. The remains of the fortress have been preserved in the central park above the Dnipro. A bell was installed in honor of the Cossack grassroots army. The wooden Vvedenskaya church (1726) was brought in 1784 from the Zaporizhye fortress Perevolochna, it contains the Gospel of 1695. The mass grave of the heroes of the Crimean War of 1853-56. with a memorial ch ...