November 14 in the history of Mykolaiv and the Korabelnyi District marks a meeting of port trade unions, a court ruling on the property of the Ocean shipyard, and the resumption of passenger rail service to the capital after the start of the full-scale invasion. On this day in different years, Mykolaiv residents also said farewell to defenders who died in Donbas and in the Kursk region.
November 14, 1904: future jazz pianist Art Hodes was born in Mykolaiv
Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians names Mykolaiv as the birthplace of Art Hodes. When he was six months old, his family moved to the United States. The future pianist grew up in Chicago and edited the magazine “Jazz Record” from 1943 to 1947. The American National Biography lists 1904 as his probable year of birth.
November 14, 2013: Ukrainian port trade unions gathered at the “Oktyabrsk” port
Representatives of trade unions from more than a dozen Ukrainian ports gathered at the “Oktyabrsk” specialized seaport in Mykolaiv. They discussed amendments to the Law of Ukraine “On Seaports of Ukraine” concerning the rights of work collectives. The proposed amendments were to be submitted to members of the Verkhovna Rada.
November 14, 2016: court overturned the transfer of Ocean’s property to its former director
The Kyiv Court of Appeal partially upheld the appeal filed by Iryna Serbin, the liquidator of the Ocean shipyard. The court overturned the clause in the ruling that transferred the shipyard’s entire property complex into the safekeeping of its former director, Leonid Shumilo. The shipyard’s property remained under arrest.
November 14, 2021: Mykolaiv said farewell to two paratroopers from the 79th Brigade
A farewell ceremony for Lieutenant Colonel Ruslan Prusov and Master Sergeant Vadym Fedoseiev was held at the military unit of the 79th Separate Air Assault Brigade. They were killed in Donbas, in the Joint Forces Operation zone. Several hundred people came to pay their respects.
November 14, 2022: a passenger train from Kyiv to Mykolaiv ran again
In the evening, the first passenger train to Mykolaiv since the start of the full-scale invasion departed from Kyiv. Its passengers included journalists and volunteers. The train arrived at Mykolaiv railway station on the morning of November 15.
November 14, 2023: two investigations into shelter stops were reported in Mykolaiv
At a briefing, Anatolii Voichenko, a representative of the State Audit Service, said that the Bureau of Economic Security was investigating two cases concerning the spending of funds on protective structures at bus stops. Auditors were checking the legality of purchasing 14 shelters.
November 14, 2025: Korabelnyi District said farewell to Vadym Semeniuk
In Balabanivka, residents of the Korabelnyi District knelt as they greeted the cortege carrying the body of 24-year-old Vadym Semeniuk. Before joining the military, he worked at the port. In March 2023, he volunteered to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He served in the 61st Separate Mechanized Brigade and was killed on August 15, 2024, during the Kursk operation.
This day in Ukraine
On the night of November 13–14, 1918, the Directory was formed at a secret meeting in Kyiv to lead the uprising against Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyi. It was headed by Volodymyr Vynnychenko. After the hetman abdicated, the Ukrainian People’s Republic was restored.
