Description of the attraction
Belosaraysky lighthouse is a white stone lighthouse, which is located on the sandy spit of the same name (the Ukrainian part of the Azov Sea). The lighthouse was built back in 1935 and at that time was an eight-sided tower twenty-three meters high, as well as various outbuildings in which sailors and people serving the lighthouse lived. And now this one, one of the oldest lighthouses in Ukraine, is operating. Until now, three families of caretakers live on its territory, who every evening light the lantern of the lighthouse, thereby giving the ships hope of an early return home. On the territory of the lighthouse there is a magnificent orchard, from the trees of which more than one generation has been treated. The sea constantly approaches this narrow strip of land, and sometimes during storms it hits the walls of the lighthouse.
Lighthouses have been erected on the Belosaraiskaya Spit for a long time. In the beginning, these were wooden buildings. So, for example, in 1811, with the money of merchants, an eighteen-meter lighthouse was built, the light of which could be seen at a distance of 20 miles from the coast. The Cossacks were also noted here, who built in 1835 a new, capital lighthouse from the delivered piece Kerch stone. And in 1890, the lighthouse was equipped with a novelty of that time - a steam whistle brought specially from Canada, which gave sound signals during heavy fog. And although the modern lighthouse is equipped with the latest technology, the light from its fire is visible at sea only at a distance of 14 miles, and the merchant's lighthouse was visible at a distance of 20 miles!
What is noteworthy is that since then the lighthouse has been repeatedly modernized inside, but its appearance has remained practically unchanged.
