In which city is the iron port located. Kherson, Iron Port: description of the resort

iron Port is a small resort village in the Kherson region in Ukraine.

Story

The village was founded in 1922, although the history of these lands stretches back to ancient times.

As in the case of other Black Sea resorts located in the Kherson, Odessa and Nikolaev regions, the Scythians and Sarmatians, who led a nomadic lifestyle, have long lived on these lands. At present, many artifacts have been preserved that tell us that they were the first inhabitants of the lands on which the Iron Port is now located.

After the Scythians, the ancient Greeks came to the Kherson lands, who founded their trading colonies along the entire coast of the Black Sea for fishing and exporting the catch by sea to Greece.

In the 2nd century AD, the Byzantines replaced the Greeks. Fulfilling the decree of the strong and ambitious Emperor Justinian I, they built their trading posts along the coast, attaching small piers to them for mooring their merchant and warships.

The 4th century century brought cardinal changes to the life of the Kherson steppes. The lands on which the Iron Port is now located were captured by the nomadic tribes of the Polovtsy, who completely ousted the Byzantines from the coast and established complete control over it.

The Polovtsy ruled the steppes for about 800 years, terrifying with their raids on the border principalities of Kievan Rus. The Kyiv princes made many attempts to expel the Polovtsy from the Black Sea coast, but most of the attempts were not successful.

In the thirteenth century, the Polovtsians and Pechenegs joined the Mongol-Tatar hordes, who moved from the Golden Horde to the west, not forgetting to destroy everything in their path. The land was depopulated, the steppe was deserted. The Mongol-Tatar yoke on these lands lasted about a hundred years.

The Grand Duke of the Principality of Lithuania Vitovt did not accept this state of affairs. He equipped his troops and in stubborn battles defeated the Mongol-Tatar hordes in the area where modern Ochakov is located and pushed them back as far as the Crimean mountains in the Crimea. Lithuanian governors began to own the lands.

At the beginning of the fifteenth century, the Lithuanians were replaced by the Genoese, then the Moldavian king Stephen the Great presented his claims to this territory. With the help of his cunning boyars, he managed to expel the Genoese from the northern Black Sea region and establish his control over the coast. In addition, his governors were engaged in sea piracy, robbing the trade caravans of the Genoese.

Moldavian rule in the lands adjacent to the Iron Port ended at the end of the fifteenth century. Moldovan governors were expelled by the hordes of the Crimean Khan Mengli Giray.

The end of the fifteenth century was marked by the arrival on the coast of Khan Mengli Giray - the rulers of the Crimean Horde.

Soon, the khan enters into an alliance with the then strengthened Ottoman Empire and gives these lands to the Ottoman Turks, while becoming a vassal of the Turkish sultan.

The end of the eighteenth century was marked in history as the years of the bloody struggle of tsarist Russia with the Ottoman Empire for control over the northern coast of the Black Sea. Alexander Suvorov took the main outpost of the Turks on the northern coast - the Kinburn fortress and mastered the assault on Ochakov. After that, the Ottomans left the entire coast and the lands on which the Iron Port is now located became part of tsarist Russia.

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the Turks again returned the northern coast of the Black Sea. England and France, who were allies of the Ottoman Empire, came to their aid. For a year, the British and French ruled the Black Sea steppes, but a year later they had to leave the coast under the onslaught of Russian troops.

At the end of the nineteenth century, a large Russian industrialist-philanthropist Baron Falzfein moved to the Kherson province for permanent residence. It was this man who donated his funds to the creation of the first reserve in Tsarist Russia - Askania-Nova. On the territory of the modern village, with funds donated by Falzfein, a wooden port and cattle pens were built. In addition, an iron current was built. As a result of mixing the two names of objects that were nearby, in the future the modern name of the village was born - Iron Port. The official date of foundation of the village is 1922.

Iron Port, like other Black Sea cities and towns, survived the dominance of the Wrangel gangs in the civil war and the horrors of the Nazi occupation in the Great Patriotic War.

It acquired the status of a resort village relatively recently - about thirty years ago.

Consider the sights of the village and its environs.

There are no historical sights in the village itself - only in the surroundings.

Map

Attractions

What can tourists who come here to relax visit?

Crypt of the Faltzfeins - located in the village of Novochernomorye. Today, only ruins remain of it; during the Soviet era, the crypt was looted.

Nearby is tract with an interesting name "Bald Mountains" . Bald Mountains is a group of Scythian and Sarmatian mounds of the Bronze Age.

The site of the Zaporizhzhya kuren of the Cossacks from the time of the Zaporizhzhya Sich - located in the village of Heroskoe. A Cossack stone cross from 1769 has been preserved in the village cemetery.

Near the cemetery are the ruins of an ancient Cossack temple.

In the village Staraya Zburyevka there are the remains of a fortress, which was built by the Zaporizhzhya Cossacks in the second half of the eighteenth century during the Turkish war. The earthen ramparts are very well preserved.

In the village of Malaya Kardashinka is located Church of St. George built in the second half of the seventeenth century.

Now let's look at the natural monuments and natural attractions in the vicinity of the Iron Port.

A real raisin for numerous vacationers - iodine bromide geyser . Scientists have studied and found out that the depth from which hot water, enriched with yol and bromine, rises, is as much as one and a half kilometers! The source temperature is 65 degrees. Once here, for a moment you can forget that you are on the Black Sea, it may seem to you that you are near one of the geysers in Iceland!

There are three baths next to the geyser: two with healing water, one with healing mud. The water has a pronounced brown color.

The next wonder of nature biosphere reserve Askania-Nova . Askania-Nova is a wintering place for migratory birds. It is home to 68 bird species and 45 animal species. This is a huge piece of unplowed virgin Kherson steppe in its original form.

Black Sea Biosphere Reserve - occupies a vast expanse of water with a coastal strip.

The territory of the reserve consists of several large areas that represent various landscapes of the Northern Black Sea region.

The main goal of the Black Sea Reserve is to protect nesting and migratory birds that come here for the winter, as well as unique complexes of sandy arenas and desert steppes.

In conclusion - about the resort itself.

Beaches

The quality of rest in the Iron Port is no worse than in Yalta or Sochi. The resort itself is located at the latitude of Evpatoria and is warmer here than in Ochakovo or Koblevo. The sea in the resort area is relatively calm, shallow. The resort is suitable for families with small children. The beaches are sandy. Throughout the village there are many hotels, hotels, you can stay on vacation in the private sector.

Climate

The active bathing season here is a month longer than in Ochakovo or Koblevo and lasts exactly six months - from early May to early November.

11.09.2016

Have you ever wondered why some settlements in our region have such unusual names?

For example, why was the village of Zhelezny Port in the Golopristansky district of the Kherson region called Zhelezny Port, and not, for example, copper? Why is Naked Pier itself - Naked and is she really naked? Does the Côte d'Azur have anything in common with the Côte d'Azur in France?

The answer is obvious: like all cities, towns, these points on the map of the Kherson region got their names thanks to some historical associations of people or often repeated actions that took place precisely on their territories.

So, for example, there are several versions why the well-known resort of the Kherson region - the Iron Port - was named that way.

According to the first version, the name is due to the fact that there really was a pier with a hundred-meter iron pier. It was used for loading grain and fish onto small ships. Over time, sea water swallowed up the land and flooded the pier.

According to the second version, the port was originally called "Zaliznym" in Ukrainian, and the word came from the phrase: "The village that sank under the very sea" (the village that climbed under the very sea).

Well, according to the third version, the Iron Port is iron - because for a long time barns with an iron roof were located on its territory, in which grain was stored for shipment. The sailors who were on their ships saw how these iron storages gleamed and, therefore, they gave the village such a name - the Iron Port.

As for the Naked Pier, its name goes back to the first quarter of the 18th century. Then, not far from it, at the tributaries of the Dnieper - the Konka - the Zaporizhzhya Cossacks made a mooring and called it - Naked ferry, because the land was bare and deserted.

The Cossacks of the Oleshkovskaya Sich made their canoes here and went fishing. Over time, the village of Golaya Pristan was subsequently founded near the ferry, which was first mentioned in the documents of 1786. Holaya Pristan became the regional center only in 1923, and the status of a city was assigned to it in 1958.

The village of Lazurnoe also has a history of the origin of its name. From the very beginning it was called Sofiyivka, as evidenced by the first written mention of 1803. Then the village gets the name Novoalekseevka and remains so until 1920.

Azure acquired its current name, so beautiful and familiar to our ears, only on December 4, 1975. And all thanks to the unusually beautiful, constantly changing shade of azure sea water.

Prepared by Natalia ROZHKOVAN

The village of Zhelezny Port has been intensively developing as a resort in recent years, a zone of modern boarding houses is being formed, located outside the village itself.

The beaches in the Iron Port are sand with small shells. A distinctive feature is the open sea and a flat coastline with no bays and gulfs, which contributes to frequent changes in the state of coastal waters. The sea, calm and quiet yesterday, today can meet with high waves, and the very next day nothing reminds of a storm.

Accommodation in the Iron Port, recreation centers

The young, developing resort Zhelezny Port, whose boarding houses and recreation centers offer mainly budget holidays by the sea, is popular among residents of Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova. Sometimes the word "budget rest" means - "rest with a low level of comfort." But in the Iron Port you can find housing by the sea of ​​various levels of comfort at affordable prices. In recent years, hotel administrations and owners of private boarding houses have been increasing the comfort level of housing, in particular, by installing TVs, air conditioners, refrigerators in the rooms, providing Wi-Fi access to the Internet. The private sector of the Iron Port resort is developed, prices in which are slightly lower than in recreation centers.

Iron Port - private sector

Iron Port - recreation centers

Iron Port - boarding houses and hotels

Iron Port - bases, boarding houses and hotels with a swimming pool

Iron Port - a large resort

The development of the resort is quite simple, as in most resort villages. IN cafes, restaurants, nightclubs are located in the first row from the sea. Further there are rows of boarding houses and recreation centers, even further away is the private sector of the Iron Port.

The recreation centers of the Iron Port and boarding houses in the Iron Port are located along the entire coastline, some of them are located in the park area. Smooth rows of boarding houses and recreation centers stretch for kilometers along the sea.

The village has a developed infrastructure focused on recreation and entertainment for tourists. Most shops, cafes and recreation centers are open only in summer. There are many water attractions on the beaches of the Iron Port, not only the already familiar water slides, motorcycles, "bananas" and parachutes, but also, relatively new for the Black Sea coast, surfing and kiting (riding on different types of boards with the help of a kite - a large controlled kite) . In the center of the Iron Port, almost on the beach, there is a water park - one might say a place of concentration of water slides and other attractions. And since the summer of 2019 on the street. Shkolnaya, 80-I, a new water park of the Aqualand network will open, and in this regard, the owners of neighboring boarding houses expect an increase in the flow of tourists in the new season.

"Kherson Las Vegas" - this is how the locals dubbed the Iron Port. With its lively life, it is somewhat reminiscent of Zatoka in the Odessa region or Koblevo in the Nikolaev region.
Unfortunately, as elsewhere, many of the guests of the resort do not have a special culture of behavior, which brings a lot of trouble to the administration of the settlement, base personnel and local residents. This is probably the main reason why the resort is inferior to holiday destinations in Turkey or Bulgaria.

Kilometers of sandy beaches, warm sea and clean air, numerous boarding houses and recreation centers, cafes and restaurants, bustling nightlife, inexpensive accommodation prices in the Iron Port annually attract thousands of citizens of Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova to rest by the sea.

Iron Port. Map how to get there

Comfortable bus on the route Kyiv-Zhelezny Port-Kyiv.

From Kherson to the village of Iron Port can be reached by bus or taxi.

With your own vehicles - you need to follow the route: Kherson - Oleshki - Naked Pier - Iron Port.

History of the Iron Port

After the revolution, the inhabitants of the village of Kelegei were resettled to the productive lands of the Kherson region. In the 20s of the last century, they founded a village, better known at that time as a fishing settlement. They settled near the sea, so that the old-timers in the area said that the village "sank under the sea itself ...". The name was literally translated into Russian - it turned out "Iron Port".

According to another version, an iron bridge went into the sea, eventually washed out and completely absorbed by the waves. They also say that there was an iron barn in the village, which was visible from afar from the sea. There are many versions, but the exact origin of the village name is unknown.

The very same area around the present village iron Port rich in historical events. At the beginning of the 18th century, the Cossacks of the Oleshkovskaya Sich founded Golaya Pristan (Goliy Pereviz), and starting from 1804, free Cossacks from the Poltava, Kyiv, Oryol and Kursk provinces arrived here.

Here the path from the Sich to Kinburn and Prognoevskaya palanka passed through Kherson.
The places were famous for the extraction of salt, to protect the salt-mining industries in these areas, the Prognoievsky palanka of the Zaporizhzhya Sich was created. Here was the advanced post of the Zaporizhzhya Cossacks, who controlled any movement of the Tatars and Turks. Thanks to them, salt was mined from salt lakes and exported to Ukraine and Poland, creating competition for the more expensive Crimean salt.
Naked Pier is the birthplace of radio communications. In 1902, a wireless communication session with Kherson was carried out in the village and, on the initiative of O.S. Popov, the first radio station in Russia was installed.

Tourist sites near the Iron Port

• With. Heroic ( on the way to the Iron Port) - Prognoevskaya palanka of the Zaporizhzhya Sich, XVIII century;
• With. Staraya Zburyevka - the remains of the Zburyevskaya fortress, XVIII century, which is part of the fortification system of the Kinburn bridgehead;
• Assumption Church, 1869, p. New Zburyevka;
• With. Malaya Kardashinka - Church of St. George, 1905 - 1912;
• With. Novochernomorie ( on the way to the Iron Port) - the crypt of the Falz-Fein family, 1900, oak grove;
• The tract "Bald holes", with. Novochernomorie;
• Black Sea biosphere reserve - Tendrovskaya and Kinburnskaya spits, Yagorlitsky Kut tract;
• Askania-Nova - biosphere reserve "Askania-Nova";
• Oleshkovsky sands - the only sandy desert in Europe;
• Iodine-bromide spring "Geyser";
• Salt Lake (Naked Pier) is an analogue of the Dead Sea in Israel.
Distances
• Iron Port - Odessa: 298 km;
• Iron Port - Kherson: 94 km;
• Iron Port - Koblevo: 242 km.

Address and coordinates

Kherson region, Golopristansky district, with. Iron Port, 46°07′20″ s. w.32°17′54″ east d.

Travel notes

In the village of Zhelezny Port itself, there are no famous tourist sites, there are no mountains and caves, but the most important thing is here - the Black Sea, clean air, kilometers of sandy beaches, Kherson cordiality and hospitality.
The sounding name Iron Port, affordable prices!

Zalizny Port or Zalizniy Port (Ukr. Zalizniy Port) is a resort village in the Golopristansky district of the Kherson region, Ukraine. It is located in the south of the region, on the Black Sea coast.

Attractions

To the west of Zalizny Port is the Black Sea Biosphere Reserve, the largest in Ukraine. The expansion of the resort area poses a threat to the reserve, in particular, to its parts adjacent to the village. As of 2008, the distance from the outskirts of the Zalizny Port to the border of the Potievsky section of the reserve is less than 500 meters.

There is a geyser 15 kilometers from the Zalizny Port, opened to the public in 2005. The depth of the source is 1572 meters, the temperature is 65-70 °C. To serve tourists, the geyser is equipped with baths.

Story

The historical date of foundation of the village is 1922.

origin of name

There is no documentary evidence of the origin of the name Zalizny Port. There are several versions based on the stories of local residents.

One version says that in the village there was an iron (Ukr. Zalizniy) pier, going 100 meters into the sea. The pier was used for loading grain and fish onto small vessels. Subsequently, with the gradual advance of the sea on land, the pier was far from the coast, and was swallowed up by the sea.

According to another version, a barn with an iron roof was used to store grain intended for shipment, and sailors who saw the barn from ships gave the village its name.

The presence of the port in the early history of the Zalizny Port is also confirmed by the third version. However, according to her, the name of the village comes from the Ukrainian verb “zalіz” (Russian: “zalez”): “I zalizlo tse village under the sea itself. For this reason, the port is Zalizniy. Later, the Russified name "Iron Port" became established, but on the maps it was and remains "Zalizny".

Infrastructure

The economy of the Zalizny Port is focused on the holiday season and servicing vacationers. Along the coast there are mainly boarding houses, recreation centers, hotels - about 50 institutions in total, from individual buildings to boarding houses with an area of ​​​​up to ten hectares. Entertainment facilities are also located on the coast. The private sector, in relation to the sea, is located behind the boarding houses.

Almost all institutions and shops are open only during the holiday season, mainly in summer (June-August).

In Zalizny Port there is a general education school of I-III degree (11 classes), opened in the summer of 1985.

Iron Port- a village, a popular Black Sea resort in the Kherson region in Ukraine.

Thermal spring "Healing geyser"

Black Sea Biosphere Reserve

origin of name

There are several versions of the origin of the village name:

• According to the first version, once there was an iron pier, to which small ships sailed to load grain and fish. Over time, the sea captured this piece of land, and the pier was under water.
• According to the second version, once in the village there was a barn with an iron roof, which was visible to sailors from afar, and for this they called the place the Iron Port.
• Finally, the third version says that it was not at all about the iron, and the name of the village came from the Ukrainian verb "zalіz" (Russian "climbed"). Since the village is located near the sea, it crawled under the sea. Following this version, it is correct to say not the Iron Port, but the Zalezny Port. The last name, by the way, is increasingly appearing in modern navigators.

Benefits of a holiday in the Iron Port

• The resort is considered youth. There are many cafes, entertainment venues, water rides, etc. along the embankment.
• The iron port is located on the coast of the open Black Sea. The entrance to the water on the beaches is gentle - convenient for both children and adults. The beach itself is sandy, in some places it is littered with huge stones, which are very fond of taking pictures of vacationers.
• The village is quite young. The year of its foundation is 1922. There are no old and dilapidated buildings here in principle. The entire coastline is built up with modern recreation centers and boarding houses for every taste and budget.
• The infrastructure of the city is quite developed. Shops and shops are able to provide vacationers with everything they need, though with resort extra charges.

Disadvantages of rest in the Iron Port

• In the high season, the beaches of the Iron Port are crowded with people. Here, literally, there is nowhere for an apple to fall, and the towel of one vacationer fits tightly with the towel of a neighbor.
• Such a number of vacationers per square meter of beach has the most negative impact on the state of the coastal area. There is a lot of garbage on the beaches and in the water, and this spoils the impression of the rest.
• It will not work to rent a private sector by the sea or with a sea view. The coastline is densely built up with boarding houses, recreation centers and private hotels. There are about three hundred of them in the Iron Port.

Attractions in the vicinity

The Iron Port itself is interesting only in terms of a beach holiday. There are no other attractions here. However, on the western outskirts of the village of Zhelezny Port, it borders on the Black Sea Biosphere Reserve, which is one of the largest in Ukraine. Its territory is unique saline and sandy steppes, bays, groves, salt and fresh lakes, islands and spits. The fauna of the reserve is represented by nesting and migratory birds.

The next attraction in terms of distance is the Healing Geyser thermal spring. This is a rather unique place where hot iodine-bromine water, which has many healing properties, beats from the bowels of the earth.

This source is equipped with a wooden embankment, steps for easy entry into the water. The thermal water pool is divided into two parts. In the first - the water is hotter (sometimes up to 70 degrees Celsius), in the second - noticeably cooler. Baths with thermal water are considered beneficial for the musculoskeletal system, thyroid gland, nervous system, and inhalation of geyser vapors is considered beneficial for the respiratory system and the treatment of various ENT diseases.

For the convenience of vacationers, there are sun loungers around the pools with thermal water. Here you can visit a massage room, smear yourself with therapeutic mud.

In such a healing bath in the open air, it is especially pleasant in cool weather. Therefore, people come to the geyser not only in the high season, but also in the off-season.

Boat trips to the uninhabited island of Dzharylgach are also popular from the Iron Port. Here, vacationers will be met by sparsely populated clean beaches with deep white sand and clear sea, rich in vegetation from the side of the bay.