Vilkovo

Vilkovo founded in the middle of the XVIII century. First settled here, the Don Cossacks, the participants in the uprising Kondraty Bulavin. Since 1879, the city belonged to Romania. Before the October Revolution was regarded as the capital of anglers Danube region. Advantageous geographical position, vast fish resources of the region here have attracted an army of merchants and fishermen. They cared little about the growth of the city. On the whole town was one elementary school in which studied forty children, and thirty taverns where fishermen returning from sea after a hard day, kept the money. During the Soviet period Vilkovo appearance has changed. Construction of new fish farm shops, put into effect a power station. The plant has several powerful refrigerators, and motor-fishing - the station - large and medium-seiner. Local fishermen joined the collective farms served by motor-fishing station. Proper use of fish resources Danube region attracts much attention. With this purpose in a laboratory of the Hydrobiological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. For working fishermen are good conditions. On all the islands near the place of catch to establish a point of reception of fish. Departing on fishing, the fishermen for a week and never returned to the city and live on islands, where special home-built residences, shops. The two islands are primary schools. From the marine station in the city is one of the most beautiful streets - Port. In 1949, it erected a monument to the sailors who died during the liberation Vilkovo during the Great Patriotic War. From Vilkovo can make a three-day hike along the route Vilkovo - Seaside Village - Vilkovo. Route length - Thirty-six kilometers. Two kilometers from the village - the beach on the Black Sea coast - sand, no pebbles, clean the bottom. Four kilometers - fishery, it is recommended to take a tour. Returning to the village, tourists can observe an interesting natural phenomenon - a mirage. People who had been in these parts have seen in the distance the water surface, does not really exist, surrounded by trees and houses that actually are there. Sometimes the trees seemed to be lifted into the air, a haystack - dangling three meters from the ground, and birds - elongated.