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. Russian occupied territories in Ukraine are identified as East Ukraine. Ukraine (officially Україна, Ukraina) is a large country on the north side of the Black Sea, bordering Russia to the east. 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. Meanwhile 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. In March 2014 Russia annexed Crimea, separating the Ukrainian coast into two sections: one on the Bight of Odessa in the west and one on the the northwestern side of the Sea of Azov in the east. The annexation of Crimea has not been accepted by Ukraine or recognized internationally. Important note: The Lighthouse Directory takes no position on any international dispute; our task is to describe lighthouses, not comment on politics. Our descriptions are of the actual situation, whatever it may be. Ukraine (without Crimea) is divided into 24 regions called oblasts (область) This page describes Ukraine's lighthouses on the Sea of Azov in the regions of Donets'ka, Zaporizʹka, and southeastern Khersons’ka. Separatists supported by Russian troops occupy the easternmost part of the Donets'ka region. 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 (Держгідрографія) 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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![]() Old Gate South Mole Light, Port Mariúpol, April 2009 ex-Panoramio photo copyright -=MNA=-; permission requested |
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![]() Berdyans'k Nizhniy Light, Berdyans'k, July 2009 ex-Panoramio Creative Commons photo by Olya Usovaツ |
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Adjoining pages: East: Russia: Sea of Azov | South: Eastern Crimea | West: Ukraine: Dnipro Basin
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Posted February 19, 2007. Checked and revised August 11, 2021. Lighthouses: 21. Site copyright 2021 Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.