Nikolaev - Mykolaiv regional center of Ukraine. The city Nikolaev is located at the intersection of the Southern Bug rivers and Ingul, 65 kilometers from the Black Sea.Birth City Mykolaiv associated with the construction of the first shipyard. Creating a shipyard on Ingul, which Governor-General of New Russia, Prince Grigory Potemkin Tauride attached particular importance, he personally instructed his first assistant to transform the southern edge and a friend, Councillor of State Mikhail Faleyev, which follows from the order � 282 of April 27, 1789: entrusts the care of your ... make shipyard Ingul.

November 10, 1789, Prince Potemkin, Catherine II addressed a dispatch from the most humble number 84 with a request for approval of Nikolaev city status, according to the municipal statute of Catherine II from 1785. However, the status of the city Nikolaev was only in October 1790.

Since 1789 the city of Nikolaev was built according to plan, so the streets, even in the old part of town straight and wide, intersecting at right angles. The city was divided into regular squares - quarters, and each had its own number, and address the people were called by the name of the owners of houses.

The first attempt to name the street of Nikolaev refers to 1822, but the list of names was only adopted in 1835 from this list, have preserved their street name Admiral's, Artillery, Bolshaya Morskaya, Malaya Morskaya Moscow, Quay, Navaryns'ka, Engineering, Garden and Sevastopol.

The origin of street names and historical events associated with them represent milestones biography of the city. In the names of streets, squares, avenues sealed the names of many prominent historical and contemporary heroes, naval, culture and science.

Walking through the squares, streets and avenues, Nikolayev, consider the ancient and modern buildings, stay with plaques and monuments, admire the parks, promenades and beaches. Tourists can explore the historic, but now the business center of the city, its industrial and green areas, highways, train stations and bridges.
Foreign tourists Nikolaev known as the city of brides. Yes, they say, and statistics and tourists themselves - that in Nikolaev live most beautiful women. Feedback from tourists visiting the Ukraine is a country of brides. Most interesting, attractive, cute girl living in Ukraine (especially in southern cities - Nikolaev, Odessa, Kherson)