Danylo Kliakhin

Twenty-four girls, semifinalists of the Miss Mykolayiv-2002 beauty contest (photo), spent twelve hours in the storefront of a shop on Radianska Street, Mykolayiv’s main thoroughfare. Passersby and fans had a chance to select those who would make it to the finals scheduled for mid-December....

Mykolayiv’s Okean Shipbuilding Plant has started building four multipurpose ships designed to carry various types of freight. The Thursday before the last saw the laying of the first section of the first ship of a series ordered by the Damen Shipyards Group. According to preliminary results, this...

A session of the Pervomaisk district council has assessed the local ecological situation as extremely acute. This was caused by the fact that several hundred of district residents had been taken ill with “toxicodermititis of an unspecified etiology” (i.e., unknown origin). The disease, first...

Mykhailo Stoliar, who became manager of the Mykolayiv Alumina Plant (MAP) late last year by government decision, has been elected chairman of the board of directors of the MAP Joint Stock Company. His candidacy was supported by the overwhelming majority of those present at the MAP shareholders...

Mykolayiv city council members have demanded that the Prosecutor General’s Office take an action against a foreign investor. “We reserve the right not to serve some customers in our establishment, irrespective of the size of their wallet,” announces the entrance of Mykolayiv’s American...

The Russian media hastened to dub the latest events surrounding the redistribution of Russia’s aluminum complex as the second great patriotic aluminum war. The cannon fire is already heard in Ukraine: it is not ruled out that the “hostilities” will shortly unfold at the Mykolayiv bridgehead, with...

Last year, government subsidies to finish the construction of the Ukrainian naval flagship missile cruiser Ukraine at the Mykolayiv Shipyard, proudly named for 61 Communards, were a mere 10% of the amount needed. According to shipyard general director Mykhailo Zhelo, his enterprise received UAH 4...

The Southern Buh near Mykolayiv has long won the sinister reputation of a death trap for ice fishermen. This winter is no exception. Owing to the unexpected thaw gnawing away at the ice, tragedies happen practically every day. Another body was retrieved from under the ice late last week. At...