Berezan is an island with a length of 850 m and a maximum width of 350 m, located opposite the Rybakovka resort, a few kilometers from the confluence of the Dnieper into the Black Sea. In the 7th century BC, when Berezan was still a peninsula, the Greek settlement Borisfen appeared here, described under the name Buyan in the Tale of Tsar Saltan, written by A.S. Pushkin. Then the legendary city of Olbia was founded by Greek settlers, with the development of which Borisfen falls into disrepair. The end of the ancient city came in the 4th century BC, when, due to rising sea levels, the peninsula became an island.
From 1774 to 1788, a Turkish fortress was located on the island of Berezan, taken by storm and destroyed by the Black Sea Cossacks - the remains of this fortification have been preserved. On March 6, 1906, the team of the rebel cruiser Ochakov, led by Lieutenant P.P. Schmidt, was shot on the island, to whom a monument resembling a sail was erected here in 1968. Berezan Island is a popular tourist site, but with limited visitation due to archaeological excavations being carried out here. Berezan is part of the Olvia nature reserve. You can get here by boat from Rybakovka or Ochakov.