18 August left very different traces in the history of Mykolaiv: the city’s capture by Denikin’s forces, the birth of a well-known boxing coach, a deadly Russian shelling, honors for medics from the Korablevnyi District, and the launch of long-awaited trolleybus routes.
18 August 1919: Denikin’s forces captured Mykolaiv
The State Archive of the Mykolaiv Region confirms that on 18 August 1919 White Guard troops captured Mykolaiv, and Denikin’s authority in the city was represented by General Yakov Slashchov. Pre-revolutionary order was being restored, opponents of the regime were persecuted by military field courts, enterprises were closed, and unemployment and typhus spread. Documents from that time sometimes use the date 5 August in the old Julian style, which corresponds to 18 August in the modern Gregorian calendar.
18 August 1919: the Mykolaiv coach Oleh Prokopovych Hryhoriev was born
On the same day in Mykolaiv Oleh Prokopovych Hryhoriev was born — the future Honored Coach of Ukraine in boxing. The Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine notes that since 1946 he headed the Mykolaiv Boxing Federation, coached at the shipbuilding and pedagogical institutes, at youth sports schools (DYuSSh) and sports societies, and received the title of Honored Coach in 1967.
18 August 2022: a shelling took a life, and rescuers from Korablevnyi extinguished the aftermath of the strike
At about 12:50 Russian forces shelled Mykolaiv: reports noted 2 wounded and 1 person killed, who died en route to the hospital. That same day a fire station in Halytsynove was hit: one fire engine burned down, another was seriously damaged, and the burning ZIL was extinguished by firefighters of the 5th State Fire and Rescue Unit from the Korablevnyi District.
18 August 2023: the minister honored medics associated with the Korablevnyi District
During a visit to Mykolaiv, Minister of Health Viktor Liashko presented honorary certificates of the Ministry of Health to city medics. As reported “Korabeliv.Info”, among those awarded was Valeriy Dovbnia — deputy medical director of City Hospital No. 5 in the Korablevnyi District, as well as family doctor Ruslana Omelyanchuk, who served, in particular, Kulbakine and Shyroka Balka.
18 August 2025: 2 new trolleybus routes started operating in Korablevnyi
In the Korablevnyi District of Mykolaiv routes began operating in test mode: No. 11 and No. 12. The circular No. 11 ran around the district from Aivazovskyi Street, while No. 12 connected the center of the Korablevnyi District with the Kulbakine neighborhood. The launch of these routes became one of the main transportation updates in the district in recent years.
On this day in the world
On 18 August 1868 French astronomer Pierre Jules César Janssen during a solar eclipse recorded an unknown spectral line associated with an element that was later named helium. And on 18 August 1920 the state of Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, providing the necessary number of votes to secure women’s suffrage.
For Mykolaiv and the Korablevnyi District this date combined almost opposite pages of history: a change of power and repression, war and human losses, but at the same time the development of sport, medicine, and urban transport.
Previously we wrote:
- Gas-network booths, “Priluky” between the bridges, and S-300 rockets: what August 17 in Mykolaiv was remembered for
- From the black August of 1941 to new trolleybuses: what August 16 in Mykolaiv was remembered for
- Either sewage, or S-300, or finally trolleybuses: how Korablevnyi was “lucky” on August 15
- Books, ambrosia and “Smerchi”: the strange August 14 in Mykolaiv’s history
- On this day Korablevnyi was given two trolleybus routes, and Mykolaiv endured a “Smerchi” strike
