{"id":591858,"date":"2026-06-06T12:45:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T09:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/korabelov.info\/2026\/06\/591858\/across-the-shoal-to-the-fort-an-expedition-to-battery-island-near-the-korabelnyi-district\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T12:45:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T09:45:39","slug":"across-the-shoal-to-the-fort-an-expedition-to-battery-island-near-the-korabelnyi-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/korabelov.info\/en\/2026\/06\/591858\/across-the-shoal-to-the-fort-an-expedition-to-battery-island-near-the-korabelnyi-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Across the shoal \u2014 to the fort: an expedition to Battery Island near the Korabelnyi District"},"content":{"rendered":"

Battery Island Batareya<\/strong>, located in the Buzkyi Lyman<\/strong> opposite the border of the Korabelnyi district of Mykolaiv<\/strong>, has again attracted the attention of local historians and city residents. After a story about the old fort, ground sinkholes and a possible underground passage to the island, the local historian Ira Ivkova<\/strong><\/a> received new questions from readers: whether it is possible to get to the Battery<\/strong> now and what such a walk across the water actually entails.<\/p>\n

In a new post Ira Ivkova<\/strong> described in more detail her own expedition-research to Battery<\/strong> Island, and also explained why this location is not just an interesting point on the map but a true engineering and military-historical site, partially hidden beneath the waters of the lyman.<\/p>\n

She notes that it is possible to reach the island. But doing so on foot without knowledge of the area is extremely difficult and dangerous. Especially now, during the full-scale war, when security restrictions are in place, and any independent attempts to reach remote sites in the lyman can be risky.<\/p>\n

According to the historian, only about two years<\/strong> before the start of the full-scale invasion the son of one of the researchers, together with friends, independently reached the Battery<\/strong> by this route. Another option is to get there by water, by boat. But even here things are not simple: it is difficult to land near the island because of old stone embankments, remnants of wooden piles and dense reedbeds.<\/p>\n

According to Ira Ivkova<\/strong>, these very obstacles are related to the history of the island\u2019s creation and its defensive purpose. The Kostiantynivska Battery<\/strong> was a complex engineering structure associated with the name of the eminent fortifier Eduard Totleben<\/strong>. Its underwater foundation consisted of ryazhs \u2014 large oak cribworks, fastened with iron and covered with granite.<\/p>\n

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Nearby, a continuous palisade of piles was driven into the silt. The whole system was supposed to function as an underwater shield: to block the movement of enemy ships and leave only a narrow channel for them, which would be covered by cannon fire. In other words, the Battery<\/strong> was not simply an island with guns, but part of a deliberate defensive trap on the water.<\/p>\n

In the 20th century<\/strong>, when the fairway was deepened for the passage of large vessels, the central part of the underwater cribworks, according to the researcher, was blown up. But the old structures close to the island held. That is why stone foundations, piles and other elements of the old fortifications still remain around the Battery<\/strong>, creating serious obstacles for water transport.<\/p>\n

In today’s conditions this old military engineering takes on a new significance. Ira Ivkova<\/strong> points out that the remnants of underwater structures around the island can still complicate movement in this part of the water area. In peacetime this was a problem for boats and researchers, and during the war such a natural-historical obstacle is already perceived as part of Mykolaiv’s defensive landscape<\/strong>.<\/p>\n