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Mykolaiv or Mykolayiv (), also known by its Russian name ('''Nikolaev''' or '''Nikolayev''') is a City in Southern Ukraine with the population of 514,000 ( 2001 estimation). The city is the center of the Mykolaiv Oblast . It is located at , along the Estuary of the Southern Bug river at its confluence with the Inhul (''Ingul'') river, 65 Kilometer s from the Black Sea . HISTORY The town was founded in 1789 by the 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 April 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. ECONOMY Today Mykolaiv is a major ship building center of Ukraine (as, earlier, of the whole Soviet Union ) and an important Riverport . The city has 3 major Shipyard s some of which capable of building large Navy ships. Other important industries are Mechanical Engineering , Power Engineering , Metallurgy and Cosmetics . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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