page_title: Mykolaiv
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Mykolaiv / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Prospekt Lenina in Mykolaiv Русский: Проспект Ленина в Николаеве
context_page_description: Mykolaiv is a major city in southern Ukraine.
  The city is located 65 kilometers from the Black Sea along the estuary of the Southern Buh river at around 46°58′N 32°0′E. Population 514,000.
context_section_description: The town was founded in 1789 by the Russian Governor General of Novorossiya Knyaz Potemkin initially as a shipyard called simply a New Shipyard on the Ingul river. Knyaz Potemkin signed an order to construct a shipyard on August 27, 1789, which is considered to be a city birth date. The shipyard was to serve for the repair of the Russian Navy ships in the Russo-Turkish war. Later Potemkin ordered the shipyard to be named Nikolaev to commemorate the date of fall of Ochakov to the Russian troops under his command on December 6, 1788, close to the day of Saint Nicholas (Nikolay) December 19, in the Russian Orthodox Church.
  The history of the city has always been closely connected to the ship building.
  The only Russian Navy aircraft carrier currently in commission, Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Kuznetsov, was built in Mykolaiv.
caption: View of the Lenin Prospekt.
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