Berezan Lighthouse
Also known as: Березань
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Place
- Country
- Ukraine
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Names & naming history
RU · Official
- Березань
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The island, once known as Borysthenes, held one of the earliest ancient Greek colonies on the northern Black Sea coast, founded in the 7th century BC, on the trade route to the colony of Olbia. Unlit range beacons marked it from 1826, and lit range lights were added at the Berezan liman in 1856. The island became famous in 1906 when Lieutenant Pyotr Schmidt and fellow leaders of the 1905 Sevastopol uprising aboard the cruiser Ochakov were executed here by firing squad; a 12 m white obelisk erected in 1923 both memorializes them and serves as a navigation mark. A dedicated lighthouse tower, an 11 m openwork metal structure with an automatic apparatus showing a green flashing light to 4 miles, was built in the middle of the island in 1952, and the site remains under Ukrainian administration.
This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed.
The island, once known as Borysthenes, held one of the earliest ancient Greek colonies on the northern Black Sea coast, founded in the 7th century BC, on the trade route to the colony of Olbia. Unlit range beacons marked it from 1826, and lit range lights were added at the Berezan liman in 1856. The island became famous in 1906 when Lieutenant Pyotr Schmidt and fellow leaders of the 1905 Sevastopol uprising aboard the cruiser Ochakov were executed here by firing squad; a 12 m white obelisk erected in 1923 both memorializes them and serves as a navigation mark. A dedicated lighthouse tower, an 11 m openwork metal structure with an automatic apparatus showing a green flashing light to 4 miles, was built in the middle of the island in 1952, and the site remains under Ukrainian administration.
This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed.
The island, once known as Borysthenes, held one of the earliest ancient Greek colonies on the northern Black Sea coast, founded in the 7th century BC, on the trade route to the colony of Olbia. Unlit range beacons marked it from 1826, and lit range lights were added at the Berezan liman in 1856. The island became famous in 1906 when Lieutenant Pyotr Schmidt and fellow leaders of the 1905 Sevastopol uprising aboard the cruiser Ochakov were executed here by firing squad; a 12 m white obelisk erected in 1923 both memorializes them and serves as a navigation mark. A dedicated lighthouse tower, an 11 m openwork metal structure with an automatic apparatus showing a green flashing light to 4 miles, was built in the middle of the island in 1952, and the site remains under Ukrainian administration.
Березань
Geography
- Country: Украина
Details
- Status: действующий
Из книги «Маяки России» (2001)
Источник: Комарицын А. А., Корякин В. И., Романов В. Г. «Маяки России (исторические очерки)». СПб.: ГУНиО МО РФ, 2001 (доп. тираж 2005).
Установлен в средней части одноименного острова, лежащего при входе в Днепровский лиман в 12,8 км от Очакова (см. рис. на с. 334). В этом районе в разные годы происходило немало исторических событий. Еще в середине VII века до н. э. на острове было основано самое первое на северных берегах Черного моря древнегреческое поселение. В то время остров носил название Борисфен — по древнему названию Днепра. На нем греки построили оборонительные сооружения, в северо-восточной части его была гавань. Мимо острова пролегал путь меж
дународной торговли в колонию Ольвия, основанную выходцами из древнего города Милет на берегах Днепровского лимана. В III—IV веках Ольвия перестала существовать, обезлюдел и Борисфен. Остров имеет форму клина, обращенного острым концом к югу. Наибольшая длина его по меридиану около 900 м, ширина в северной половине до 550 м. Берег его, возвышенный и обрывистый с южной стороны, постепенно понижается к северу, переходя в небольшую низменную косу. Ограждать остров навигационными знаками начали очень давно. Достоверно известно [99], что в 1826 году на южной оконечности острова были установлены несветящие створные знаки. Они имели вид столбов с четырьмя подпорами, на вершинах которых имелись деревянные квадратные решетчатые щиты. Задний знак имел высоту 11,5 м, передний 15,2 м. Присматривал за знаками очаковский лоцмейстер.
Остров Березань. Фото 1903 г.
В 1856 году на северо-западной и юго-восточной возвышенностях западного берега Березанского лимана установили два светящих створных маяка в виде деревянных усеченных пирамид с фонарями наверху. Створ маяков вел по северо-западному колену Очаковского фарватера Днепровского лимана. После начала действия этих маяков дневной створ на острове Березань упразднили, оставив один знак для обозначения оконечности острова. Знак этот много раз перестраивали, но внешний вид его сохранялся неизменным до 1920-х годов. Знаку этому было суждено быть свидетелем событий, которые произошли здесь в 1906 году и которые сделали остров известным всему миру. 11 ноября 1905 года в Севастополе вспыхнуло вооруженное восстание. Военная организация социал-демократов предложила возглавить его лейтенанту П. П. Шмидту. 15 ноября Шмидт поднял на крейсере “Очаков” флажный сигнал “Командую флотом”. К полудню в руках восставших было 12 кораблей. С “Очакова” была направлена телеграмма царю с требованием немедленно созвать Учредительное собрание и заявлением, что флот перестает повиноваться царскому правительству. Власти подтянули к Севастополю войска, и восставшим был предъявлен ультиматум о капитуляции, но революционные корабли отвергли его и вступили в неравный бой. Через полтора часа боя оставшиеся в живых покинули корабль. Шмидт и другие участники восстания при высадке на берег были арестованы и через несколько дней на военном транспорте “Дунай” доставлены в Очаков. 18 февраля 1906 года военно-морской суд приговорил П. П. Шмидта и его соратников А. Гладкова, Н. Антоненко и С. Частника к смертной казни. Утром 6 марта 1906 года осужденных доставили на остров Березань. Через час они были расстреляны. 13 ноября 1923 года останки героев перезахоронили в Севастополе на кладбище Коммунаров, а на острове Березань, в его южной части, возвели памятник лейтенанту Шмидту и его товарищам — белый обелиск высотой 12 м, служащий одновременно навигационным знаком.
В 1952 году в средней части острова был построен маяк — ажурная четырехгранная металлическая башня высотой 11 м с фонарным сооружением наверху, в котором установили автоматический светооптический аппарат АСА-50, светящий зеленым проблесковым огнем на 4 мили. Кроме светового, на острове работает радиомаяк. В настоящее время маяк находится в ведении Украины.
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The island, once known as Borysthenes, held one of the earliest ancient Greek colonies on the northern Black Sea coast, founded in the 7th century BC, on the trade route to the colony of Olbia. Unlit range beacons marked it from 1826, and lit range lights were added at the Berezan liman in 1856. The island became famous in 1906 when Lieutenant Pyotr Schmidt and fellow leaders of the 1905 Sevastopol uprising aboard the cruiser Ochakov were executed here by firing squad; a 12 m white obelisk erected in 1923 both memorializes them and serves as a navigation mark. A dedicated lighthouse tower, an 11 m openwork metal structure with an automatic apparatus showing a green flashing light to 4 miles, was built in the middle of the island in 1952, and the site remains under Ukrainian administration.
Heritage identity & evidence
Identity
- LUX ID
LUX-LH-000119- Type
- Lighthouse
- Object kind
- Lighthouse
- Current status
- active
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Operational status
Selected value: active
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Archive value: active
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- active selected why: Current evidence is active; Source: Legacy archive field; Inherited from the archive · Березань Current · archive · Legacy archive field
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Construction or building date
Phase history: 1856; 1952
Reviewer action: Treat each active date as a separate lighthouse phase, rebuild, first-light, or current-structure date before promoting phase-specific facts.
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Archive value: 1856, 1952
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- 1856 · Березань Current · archive · Legacy archive field
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- 1952 · Березань Current · archive · Legacy archive field
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CLAIM-LUX-LH-000119-construction_date-002- review_status
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construction_date- current_claim_id
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2- distinct_value_count
2- review_guidance
repeatable lifecycle phase field; display active values as phase history and only flag conflict when review assigns two different values to the same phase.
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External Identity Graph
- LUX Light ArchiveLUX-LH-000119 Canonical LUX ID
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- Construction or building date construction_date · 1856
- Construction or building date construction_date · 1952
- Operational status status · active
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Reconstructed state
- 1856-1951
- 1952-present
History and connections
Lifecycle summary
Current status: active
Lifecycle events
- BuiltInherited from legacy archive
Construction date recorded.
1 source · medium confidence
Construction phases
Repeated construction dates are treated as lighthouse phases or rebuilds, not one current-date conflict.
- 1856 · Березань · Phase claim
Source narrative context: ...o the colony of Olbia. Unlit range beacons marked it from 1826, and lit range lights were added at the Berezan liman in 1856. The island became famous in 1906 when Lieutenant Pyotr Schmidt and fellow leaders of the 1905 Sevastopol uprising aboard the cruiser Ochakov were executed here by firing squad; a 12 m white obelisk erected in 1923 both memorializes them and serves as a navigation mark. A dedicated lighthouse t...
- 1952 · Березань · Phase claim
Source narrative context: ...ructure with an automatic apparatus showing a green flashing light to 4 miles, was built in the middle of the island in 1952, and the site remains under Ukrainian administration.
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Lighthouse history (2 events)
- Construction date recordedrecord-derived
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Record history (2 changes)
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- Geography contextУкраина · text-only
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Attribution
"Berezan Lighthouse" · LUX-LH-000119 · © LUX143 · Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International · https://light.lux143.org/node/611/
Citation
LUX Light Archive, Lighthouse record: "Berezan Lighthouse", LUX-LH-000119, https://light.lux143.org/node/611/, accessed 2026-08-10, archive v0.24.362.
Legacy archive provenance
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- Canonical LUX ID
- LUX-LH-000119
- Legacy node
- node:611
- Legacy URL
- /node/611/
- Drupal source type
- lighthouse
- Source system
- drupal_migration
- Source path
- /node/611
Trusted References
Known external identifiers and review leads for Wikipedia, Wikidata, map, registry, and catalogue coverage. Search leads are not accepted evidence until reviewed. Field-level evidence is implied only when evidence scope or supported fields are explicit.
| Source | Status | Evidence scope | Reference | Review note |
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| Wikidata | search-candidate | Search / review | Resolve to a verified QID before treating as evidence. | |
| Wikipedia | search-candidate | Search / review | Useful for public descriptions and cross-checking, but text must be rewritten or quoted sparingly. | |
| OpenStreetMap | search-candidate | Search / review | Resolve to a stable node, way, or relation URL before acceptance. | |
| ARLHS | review-source | Search / review | Search the World List of Lights and add a verified ARLHS ID when found. | |
| Lighthouse Directory | review-source | Search / review | Use the regional directory page as a trusted catalogue lead; add the exact URL after review. |
Record identifiers
- Node
- 611
- Source type
- lighthouse
- Review class
- Lighthouse
- Wikidata class
- Q39715
- Created
- 27/05/2011 14:50:38 UTC
- Changed
- 29/05/2011 14:13:19 UTC
- Source path
- /node/611
All technical fields
- Status
- active Legacy archive claim · Березань
- Construction date
- 1856; 1952 Multiple lighthouse phases
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- Not curated
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- Longitude
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