August 6 in the history of the Korabelnyi District and Mykolaiv is remembered for the establishment of an educational institution, a destructive storm in the port, a large-scale fire along the railway, the rescue of a person and a deadly Russian shelling.
August 6, 1971: a cultural-educational faculty was established in Mykolaiv
By Order of the Ministry of Culture of the Ukrainian SSR No. 301, a cultural-educational faculty of the Kyiv Institute of Culture was established in Mykolaiv. It became the beginning of a separate city unit for training specialists for libraries, cultural institutions and artistic ensembles.
August 6, 2017: a storm derailed seven cranes at the port “Olvia”
Around 16:09 a powerful gust of wind that lasted about 10 minutes shifted 7 portal cranes off their rails at berths No. 5 and No. 6 of the enterprise “Olvia”. Two cranes were damaged, part of the roof was torn off warehouses and windows were blown out, but no people were injured.
August 6, 2020: a train left a fire covering three hectares
After a freight train passed through the Korabelnyi District, a series of fires started along the railway on Yantarna, Novobudivna, Olviyska, Samoylovycha and Rybna streets. Korabelov.info reported that the fire affected about 3 hectares, and 20 rescuers, 5 special vehicles and two water trucks were involved in extinguishing it.
August 6, 2022: Russians fired 12 rocket projectiles at Mykolaiv
Around 03:30 Russian forces shelled industrial infrastructure and residential quarters of Mykolaiv, firing 12 rocket projectiles. 7 microdistricts were hit, and in Korenis a rocket pierced the ceiling of a five-story building and flew into an apartment: 2 people died, about 10 were seriously wounded, which human rights defenders recorded.
August 6, 2024: a man was rescued from a burning apartment
At 05:11 an apartment on the 7th floor of a nine-story building on Prospekt Korabeliv, 12-B, caught fire. Due to a narrow access road an aerial ladder could not be set up, so rescuers broke down the door and carried a man born in 1963 out the stairs; he was hospitalized with smoke inhalation. Korabelov.info reported that 12 firefighters and 3 special vehicles were on the scene.
On this day in Ukraine and the world
August 6, 1657, or July 27 old style, in Chyhyryn died Bohdan Khmelnytsky — the first hetman of the Ukrainian Cossack state he had created. August 6, 1945 an American aircraft dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima: tens of thousands of people died immediately, and the effects of radiation claimed lives for many years afterwards.
For the Korabelnyi District this date became a reminder of both the power of natural forces, the danger of neglected infrastructure, and of Russian terror, which in 2022 brought Mykolaiv new victims and destruction.
Previously we wrote:
- Fire in Korabelnyi: a man rescued from an apartment on the seventh floor
- A rocket hit a five-story building: two dead and about ten wounded
- Russians fired 12 rocket projectiles at Mykolaiv
- In Korabelnyi a fire was extinguished for more than three hours after a train passed
- Due to a storm at the “Olvia” port portal cranes were damaged
