Attractions of Odesa region

Odesa Archaeological Museum is one of the first museums in Ukraine. Founded by I. Blaramberg, who donated part of his collection of antiquities. The development was facilitated by the Odesa Society of History and Antiquities, founded in 1839, which had the right to conduct excavations in southern Russia. The collection includes more than 150,000 items: monuments of history and culture of the Northern Black Sea Coast, Ancient Greece and Rome. The best collections of Egyptian antiquities in Ukraine (sarcophagi, mummies of people and animals, jewelry, etc.). The "Golden Pantry" exhibits real things made of precious metals, the oldest of which date back to the beginning of the second millennium BC. A copy of the ancient Greek sculpture "Laokoon" is installed in front of the entrance.

The Olexander Pushkin Literary Memorial Museum was opened in the building of the former Hotel du Nord, where the poet lived for a month during a visit to Odesa in 1823. In Odessa he created the poem "Gypsies", completed the poem "Bakhchisaray Fountain", wrote thirty lyric poems and two and a half chapters of the novel "Eugene Onegin". The exhibition presents engravings of Pushkin's Odesa, portraits of the poet's contemporaries, his drawings, rare lifetime publications.

The modern winery "Shabo" is based on the ancient traditions of Shabby winemaking. The Turkish name of the village Shabo - "Asha-abag" ("Lower Gardens") - indicates that in the XVII century there were vineyards. The development of winemaking was facilitated by French settlers who arrived in Chabot in 1822. The first vine was planted here by the Swiss scientist and winemaker Louis Tardan, and in 1847 his son Carl Tardan presented at the first agricultural exhibition in Chisinau 8 varieties of Shab wine. Today, the best grape varieties grow on 1,000 hectares of their own vineyards located between the Dniester estuary and the Black Sea coast, many of which were imported 200 years ago by the first French settlers. The wine is made by modern cold bottling technologies. The Shabo Wine Culture Center has been established at the plant, and excursions and tastings are being held. During the tour you can visit the ancient Royal Cellar, Sherry Cellar, underground storage, Cognac Yard, Champagne House, cold bottling plant, museum maze.

The Tatarbunary Museum of History and Local Lore was established in 1949 as a museum of the Tatarbunary Uprising, an armed peasant uprising in Tatarbunary organized by the Bolsheviks in 1924 against Romanian rule. Today the museum has 8 halls and an art gallery. The history of the settlement of the region by numerous peoples is presented, starting with the Cimmerians, Scythians, Polovtsians, Tatars, Turks and ending with the Transdanubian Cossacks. The main themes of the exposition: ethnography, Tatarbunary uprising, the period of the Second World War, the epoch of collective farms, sports glory of Tatarbunary region, creativity of Tatarbunary artists and poets (in particular works of Odessa artist V. Sharapenko). The museum is located on the second floor of the Palace of Sports.