Zatoka, Odessa Oblast

Zatoka (Ukrainian and Russian Затока, Romanian Bugaz ) is an urban-type settlement in the Odessa Oblast in southwestern Ukraine. It belongs administratively to the city Bilhorod - Dnistrovskyi and is located southeast of the city at the end of the Dniester Liman.

The place was in 1827 for the first time in writing as Bugaz ( means something like " quicksand " ) mentioned, since 1965, he has the status of an urban-type settlement. On September 21, 1851 the lighthouse was vessel traffic in the Liman built, it was reconstructed in 1877 and improved the wooden construction. Already in the First World War the railway from Odessa to Bilhorod - Dnistrovskyi was realized via train ferries, in 1917 a railway station was realized with connection to the port as an extension of the railway line to Bilhorod - Dnistrovskyi in place. In the interwar period the place then belonged to Romania, due to the situation, financed with funds from the League of Nations tuberculosis sanatorium was opened in 1936. During the Second World War Bugaz was then briefly occupied 1940-1941 by the Soviet Union, then came back to Romania and, in 1944, then finally annexed by the Soviet Union, since it was a part of the Ukrainian SSR since 1991 a part of today's Ukraine. Between December 25, 1953 and December 5, 1955, a combined road and railway bridge was built instead of the previously existing wood and pontoon bridges and reopened the railway from Odessa to Izmail and Basarabeasca.

Because of the location on the Black Sea, Zatoka has developed into a popular resort on the Black Sea, now the site extends on a longer route along the coast.