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__NOTOC__The Vorontsov Lighthouse ( uk, Воронцовський маяк, russian: Воронцовский маяк) is a red-and-white, 27.2 metre tall lighthouse in the
The lighthouse was built with iron tubing and lead gaskets. It has a one-million-watt signal light that can be seen up to twelve nautical miles (22 km) away. It transmits the
Black Sea
The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, ...
port of Odesa
Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern sho ...
, Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian invas ...
. It is named after Prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov
Prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov (russian: Князь Михаи́л Семёнович Воронцо́в, Romanization of Russian, tr. ; ) was a Russian nobleman and field-marshal, renowned for his success in the Napoleonic wars and most fa ...
, one of the governors-general of the Odessa region. p. 167-168
Construction
The lighthouse was built with iron tubing and lead gaskets. It has a one-million-watt signal light that can be seen up to twelve nautical miles (22 km) away. It transmits the Morse Code
Morse code is a method used in telecommunication to encode text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called ''dots'' and ''dashes'', or ''dits'' and ''dahs''. Morse code is named after Samuel Morse, one ...
signal of three dashes, the letter ''O'', for Odesa. It also sounds a foghorn during severe storms or fog. p. 33
The lighthouse is connected with the port's shoreline by a long stone causeway and jetty, which protect the port from the southern high seas. The port is protected on the east by huge concrete breakwaters built on rocks, that rise above the water.
History
The current lighthouse is the third to stand on the same spot. The first was built in 1862 and was made of wood.See also
* List of lighthouses in UkraineReferences
External links
* {{Authority control Buildings and structures in Odesa Lighthouses in Ukraine Tourist attractions in Odesa Lighthouses completed in 1862 1860s establishments in Ukraine 1862 establishments in the Russian Empire