Peresyp, Odesa — Area Guide & Where to Stay

What are the main landmarks in Peresyp?

An agricultural machinery works made the district's name. Johann Hoehn, a German emigrant, founded it in 1854, and by the early twentieth century it was the largest plant of its kind in Ukraine. Its output ran to a hundred thousand implements.

Ploughs and reapers, winnowers and threshers came off it in those numbers, which is what put Peresyp on the map beyond Odesa. Tanneries and slaughterhouses filled the rest. They were thick on the ground between the Peresyp bridge and the fair square, and the largest slaughterhouse stood where the stadium on that square is now.

What is the history of Peresyp?

The spit separated the estuaries in the fifteenth century. Kuyalnyk and Khadzhibey were cut off from the gulf of Odesa when the bar formed between them, and the first Zaporozhian Cossack settlements appeared on it only after the Sich was destroyed in 1709. Several villages stood here by the end of the eighteenth century.

Kuyalnyk below Shkodova hill was one of them. Building spread along the shore between 1820 and 1830. The plots along the Black Sea coast on the line of what is now Chornomorskoho Kozatstva street were built up then, and the district stayed unremarkable until a railway crossed it in 1867.

That railway made it industrial. The ground was ownerless and needed no buying, and the fishing settlements on it were poor, so factories, warehouses and grain elevators rose between the Peresyp bridge and the fair square before the century was out. Building filled in during the 1880s.

The stretch between Chornomorskoho Kozatstva, Otamana Chepihy and Oleksandrivska square was covered, and the industrial zone widened through the 1920s and 1930s with the mechanical and cable works added to the machinery plant.

Where is Peresyp?

Peresyp lies on the sand and shell spit north of central Odesa, between the Khadzhibey and Kuyalnyk estuaries and the Black Sea.