Mykolaiv

Mykolaiv Oblast is located in the south of Ukraine. The administrative centre of the region is Mykolaiv city.
In the west-southwest, Mykolaiv Oblast borders Odesa, in the north – with Kropyvnytsia, in the northeast – with Dnipropetrovsk, and in the southeast – with Kherson. In the south, the region is also washed by the Black Sea. Mykolaiv Oblast includes the Kinburn Peninsula, Berezan Island in the Black Sea, and Pervomaisky Island in the Dnipro Estuary. Mykolayiv region is located 473 km from Kyiv. It has Mykolaiv International Airport, Mykolaiv Seaport, Mykolaiv River Port and Dnipro-Buzka Seaport.
Mykolaiv Region is administratively divided into 4 districts, 9 cities, 17 urban-type settlements, and 889 villages.
Regional GDP was 3.5 billion USD (2.32% of Ukraine’s GDP), FDI stock was 987 million USD (main foreign investors are Pepsico, Bunge, Cofco Agri, Lactalis, Posco International, Dyckerhoff, AbInBev EFES), and export was 2.3 billion USD (5% of Ukraine’s export).
Industry specialization: agricultural processing (fruits and vegetables), food products (dairy products, baby food), mechanical engineering (machines and equipment, shipbuilding), metalworking, agriculture (aquaculture).
Natural resources of the region: granite, building stone, cement raw materials, limestone, kaolin.
There are 11 universities and 5 technical schools in the region. The main universities are the Admiral Makarov National Shipbuilding University, the Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University and the Mykolaiv State Agrarian University.
The unemployment rate in the region was 11.5% (average in Ukraine 9.9%) and the average salary was 474 USD (average in Ukraine 430 USD) in 2021.