Inkerman section. Inkerman lighthouses - Front (Western) and Rear (East) Lighthouse

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Two more Sevastopol lighthouses are located in Inkerman.

The mountain began to be called Mayachnaya in the 20s of the 19th century. with the completion in 1820 of the construction of two lighthouses that make up the Inkerman site.

The western lighthouse is located on Mayachnaya Mountain, the eastern one is the highest in our country, located at an altitude of 195.7 m above sea level - on a hill at the end of the bay.

Together with the Chersonesos (the date of its construction is the year 1818), the Inkerman lighthouses formed a system of lights that allowed ships to enter the Sevastopol Bay at night.

Ships always enter Sevastopol Bay along the Inkerman channel. On the near beacon there is a red constant light, on the far one there is a white light, also constant, without blinking or flashing. To enter the bay, you need to hold the steering wheel so that the white light is exactly above the red one. This is what it means to walk along the Inkerman alignment.

View of Inkerman from V. Simpson's album (1855). The lighthouse is visible in the background on the left

The Inkerman lighthouses - the Front (Western) and the Back (East) - which make up the Inkerman site, were built in 1821 to ensure a safe entrance to Sevastopol, which back in 1804 was chosen as the main military port on the Black Sea. This allowed ships to enter Sevastopol Bay at any time of the day.

With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, navigation equipment had to be turned off. But the task of ensuring the safe navigation of the fleet's vessels remains. It only became more complicated due to the danger of mines and opposition from enemy forces. The standard navigation fence was converted into a manipulable one with developed options for the combustion mode, character, color of fire and control schemes. The personnel of the detachments and groups, together with the lighthouses, provided mine laying, escorting ships to besieged Sevastopol, and participated in all landing operations of the fleet.

During one of the German air raids, the entire staff of the Rear Inkerman Lighthouse died in a shelter from a direct hit from a large-caliber bomb. Together with the lighthousemen A. Pavlov, Ivashchenko and his family, the foremen and Red Navy men of the manning detachment (28 people in total) died.

On June 25, 1942, the enemy reached the Inkerman Heights. At this time, Sevastopol was preparing to meet the 142nd Naval Rifle Brigade arriving on the leader "Tashkent" and the destroyers "Bditelny" and "Impeccable", the patrol ship "Shkval" and three minesweepers - the last major replenishment. It was urgently necessary to restore the Inkerman line of lighthouses: not only to break through Sevastopol, which was lying in ruins and engulfed in fire, but, having reached the front line, in full view of the enemy, deploy searchlights at strictly defined points and turn them on at night for ships. The task was carried out by a manipulation group led by Lieutenant I. Barakhovsky. In this case, two sailors died. The leader of “Tashkent” took from Sevastopol two thousand city residents and wounded soldiers, eighty-five pieces of canvas from the famous Panorama “Defense of Sevastopol 1854–1855.”

On November 5, 1944, ships of the Black Sea Fleet squadron returned to Sevastopol. On the approach to Sevastopol they were met by the Inkerman lighthouses. At first, searchlights were lit at the site of the destroyed ones. But already in 1946, builders restored a new tower, residential building and service buildings at the Rear Inkerman Lighthouse. The Inkerman lighthouses were completely restored in 1949.