{"id":602595,"date":"2026-08-04T10:51:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T07:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/korabelov.info\/2026\/08\/602595\/a-film-was-booed-shipbuilders-went-on-strike-what-happened-in-mykolaiv-on-august-4\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T10:51:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T07:51:24","slug":"a-film-was-booed-shipbuilders-went-on-strike-what-happened-in-mykolaiv-on-august-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/korabelov.info\/en\/2026\/08\/602595\/a-film-was-booed-shipbuilders-went-on-strike-what-happened-in-mykolaiv-on-august-4\/","title":{"rendered":"A film was booed, shipbuilders went on strike: what happened in Mykolaiv on August 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

August 4<\/strong> in the history of Mykolaiv<\/strong> and the present-day Korabelnyi District<\/strong> is associated with the city’s first film screening, a major shipbuilders’ strike, Bolshevik requisitions in Bohoyavlensk, the work of the “Okean” plant, and Russian shelling.<\/p>\n

August 4, 1896<\/strong>: the first film was shown in Mykolaiv<\/h2>\n

At Yakov Sheffer’s theater the<\/a> city’s first film screening was held, but the showing proved unsuccessful: instead of a clear image the audience saw flickering silhouettes and greeted the novelty with whistles and hisses. Already in October 1896<\/strong> townspeople were shown a genuine device by the brothers Auguste Lumi\u00e8re<\/strong> and Louis Lumi\u00e8re<\/strong>, after which film screenings began to gain popularity.<\/p>\n

August 4, 1908<\/strong>: hundreds of shipbuilders stopped work<\/h2>\n

Because of reduced piece rates work at the Mykolaiv shipbuilding plant was stopped by 483 workers<\/strong> of the mechanical shop, and the next day the strike was supported by all 2,636 workers<\/strong> of the enterprise. Whether the shipbuilders managed to secure a return to their former pay is not indicated in the available historical account.<\/p>\n

August 4, 1920<\/strong>: in Bohoyavlensk they began preparing meat requisitions<\/h2>\n

The Bohoyavlensk volost committee decided<\/a> to create a commission for meat distribution, which was to ensure the forced seizure of food from the residents of Bohoyavlensk \u2014 the present territory of the Korabelnyi District<\/strong>. Requisitions of grain, livestock, horses and property undermined local households, and already in 1921<\/strong> the famine claimed the lives of more than 2,000 residents<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

August 4, 2021<\/strong>: a flagpole made at the “Okean” plant was installed<\/h2>\n

In the “Young Heroes” square in Mykolaiv<\/strong> they completed<\/a> the installation of a flagpole 72 meters<\/strong> high and weighing about 30 tons<\/strong>, which was manufactured by the Okean shipbuilding plant in the Korabelnyi District<\/strong>. The structure consisted of 3 sections<\/strong>, and 2 truck cranes<\/strong> were used to lift it.<\/p>\n

August 4, 2022<\/strong>: Russians shelled Mykolaiv<\/h2>\n

Around 04:00<\/strong> and after 06:00<\/strong> Russian occupiers shelled<\/a> two districts of Mykolaiv<\/strong>: residential buildings were damaged, a neglected two-story structure was destroyed, a fire broke out, one rocket hit the roadway and another hit the sidewalk. There were no deaths or injuries; however after the enemy attacks a coniferous decking in the Balabanivskyi forest also caught fire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is how the date August 4<\/strong> has remained in the city’s history: from Mykolaiv residents’ unsuccessful first encounter with cinema and the shipbuilders’ struggle for wages \u2014 to the Bolshevik plundering of Bohoyavlensk and Russian rockets that, a century later, once again brought danger to the residents of Mykolaiv<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Earlier we wrote:<\/h2>\n