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Both the place is beautiful and the lighthouse is beautiful, but, as always, people spoil everything. I was just killed by the phrase "guide": "we would have a president like Stalin, Mussolini or Lukashenko," and it was no joke. The esteemed management of the Seaport should have a serious conversation with this person (it seems Yakovlev's last name) and give several lectures on history. I really hope that this disgrace will end the next time I come on a tour, we will be told that the country needs a president like Bandera, Shukhevych or Chornovil! All is well!

The keeper of the Vorontsov lighthouse, Ivan Timofeevich Tsikhovich, has literally been living at his workplace since 1955. And before the work of the lighthouse became automated, and remote control, Ivan Timofeevich went to turn it on manually. Everyday. 700 meters along a narrow concrete isthmus. In any weather: in frosts, in cold weather, in fogs, in storms with waves of many meters, in winds knocking down, and even when the concrete was covered with a thick ice crust, and the door to the tower was completely frozen. Because otherwise the ships in the sea would be destroyed ... Vorontsov lighthouse is the only one in Ukraine that can be visited with a guided tour. And the story of Ivan Timofeevich is only a small part of what is not written about the lighthouse in Wikipedia. ❗️In the very tower of the lighthouse, for reasons of strategic security, mere mortals are not allowed. The tour is a walk to its base. From the age of 12 and under adequate weather conditions. Issue price - 220 UAH / person with the Adventurer's Club. And now a little self-harm and a life hack on how to halve the price of this pleasure for yourself. Excursions to the lighthouse are led only by groups. KA has a kind of monopoly on their implementation and they are the main organizer and their customer. But the port itself provides a guide and a bus on the territory of the port. Your people and all that. The port's website has a working phone number for the guide (if I am not mistaken, Tatiana Nikolaevna), with which you can negotiate directly. Without intermediaries, the cost of the excursion is 90 UAH / person + travel by bus based on the total rental cost (1158 UAH) divided by all passengers. We traveled as part of a spacecraft group, but those who joined from the guide cost about 27 UAH, total for everything - 117 UAH. So if you want to get to the lighthouse on a budget - google on the KA website for the next date of the excursion to the lighthouse .. and call the port. The only advantage of excursions with spacecraft is the photographer accompanying the group. But to be honest, I took more beautiful and interesting pictures on my phone than I received from the photographer as a result 😕. I waited longer.

Just good.

"The path of the pendulum" is the path of the caretaker to work and back. In order to touch the Vorontsov lighthouse, you first need to get to the port, and then walk 680 meters along the Raid Breakwater. Listening to the sound of the wind and the rhythm of the sea, it is important to calculate the possibility of overflow. In such situations, the wave runs up and “jumps over” the narrow path of the pier, which plays the role of a breakwater. The ideal time for such a walk, of course, is summer, when getting under the sea wave is very nice. But with the first serious cooling, the attitude towards such a sudden “soul” changes radically. Passing through the pier, you can see how tetrapods work - reinforced concrete structures that perform the function of shore protection. The weight of one tetrapod is 2 tons. Although, at first glance, they seem lighter and as if piled in a heap. But looking closely, you literally feel the system and stability.

Extremely dissatisfied with the service and communication with me as a client, my questions on the phone received an aggressive response and no explanation, only that I have to read everything on the official site, talked with Yakovlevoy (not the benevolent person) sorry that there are so many interesting things in the country. places, but to look at them you have to do a lot of work on their own, through such employees as Yakovleva in general, there is no desire to rest or travel to Odessa,