Melitopol

Melitopol (Мелитополь) is in Zaporizhzhia Oblast in Eastern Ukraine, though under Russian control since March 2022. It is in the south of the Zaporizhzhia region, 30 km from the Sea of Azov and 5 km from the Molochny estuary of the Sea of ​​Azov. Due to its proximity to the sea, tourists often choose Melitopol as a base to stay when visiting the coast. The city may be of only limited interest: in its historical part, there are several streets with buildings from the 19th century (spoiled by outdoor advertising and heavily diluted with new buildings), a relatively large museum of local lore and the archaeological monument "Stone Grave" in its vicinity.

Understand
Melitopol is an engineering center and a major transport hub in the south of Ukraine.

It was founded in 1784 as Novoaleksandrovka. In 1842 it received the status of a city and was renamed Melitopol. The central avenue of the city, crossing it from north to south, is Bohdan Khmelnitsky Avenue. It also houses the main square of the modern city.1 Victory square.

The historical center of pre-revolutionary Melitopol is in the area of ​​Mikhail Hrushevsky Street, and Cathedral Square is its main square.

It is a mainly Russian-speaking city.

Climate
Summers are hot, sunny, dry and long. Winters are short, relatively cool, humid, rainy and with little snow. Gusty winds and sand and dust storms are observed in winter. The average air temperature in January is −2 °С, in July + 24 °С.

Get in
The city is 220 km E of Kherson. Two international highways pass through the city: and the territorial road T-0401 Dnepr - Melitopol.
 * E58/M-14 Odesa-Rostov-on-Don
 * E105/M-18 Kharkiv-Simferopol

By train
Electric trains pass through the city, starting their journey at the border with Crimea - from Genichesk, Sivash, Novoalekseevka - and go through Melitopol to Zaporizhzhia, and regional high-speed trains go to the Dnieper. Trains follow the same route, only after the Dnieper they go further to Kyiv, Lviv, Khmelnitsky, Ivano-Frankivsk and Kharkiv.



Get around
There are several dozen bus routes in the city.