Ochakiv Territorial Community
- Type: Urban
- Population: 14,300
People of the Community
Ochakiv Town Mayor Serhii Bychkov was first elected in October 2015 and is the current town mayor.
The key priority of the mayor’s activities is the comprehensive development of the community, creation of constructive interaction between the authorities and the residents, development of a new type of a community which would be a better place to live, work and rest in.
Community and War
Since 24 February 2022, the community has been under constant enemy fire from the russian federation. In recent months, the community’s territory has repeatedly been subjected to massive artillery fire and rocket attacks. As a result, industrial facilities, residential buildings, social, resort and port infrastructure facilities, and the coastline have been significantly damaged or destroyed.Today, many Ochakiv residents defend Ukraine in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and those staying in the town help provide for the needs of the front.The Ochakiv Town Council has established cooperation with charitable, international organizations, foreign business entities regarding humanitarian cooperation, as well as with foundations and other non-governmental organizations.
A process has been established regarding the distribution of humanitarian aid to the residents of the Ochakiv Urban Territorial Community and temporarily displaced persons.
History
Ochakiv is a town of regional subordination founded in 1492.
People settled on the site of present-day Ochakiv already in the first millennium BC. Ancient Slavs built fortifications between the Black Sea and the Dnipro – Bug Estuary. Ochakiv was founded in 1492 by Crimean Khan Mengli I Prey, on the site of the Lithuanian fortress of Dashiv, and was originally called Kara Kerman. A good strategic location also attracted Turkish immigrants there, who built a strong fortress near the sea and called it Achi-Kale, which sounds closely to the current name of Ochakiv.
During the times of independent Ukraine, the military built new fortifications in the area. Despite the fact that Ochakiv was a resort town for a long time, there were also military bases there in addition to the tourist ones.The Kinburn Spit is formed by a natural complex of the lower Dnipro sands that accumulated in the mouth of the Dnipro during the last glaciation.
The National Nature Reserve of the White Coast of Sviatoslav and the Kinburn Spit Regional Landscape Reserve were created within its area.
