Count pier
Count pier
It is the main moorage, a peculiar town emblem and architectural monument. It was built together with the first buildings in Sevastopol. For the first time it was an original boating moorage but in 1787 by Ekaterina the Second's arrival a wide stone staircase and pier were built. In honour of the empress' arrival it had been called Ekaterinskaya. But that name did not live long as the name of the Third International (the name of the pier before the War). And now the pier is called Count Pier. It is connected with the name, and to be more exact, with the title of count Voynovich who was in command of the Black Sea Fleet in the forties last century. The pier acquired its present appearance only in 1846. There were four marble statues (only two were preserved) in recesses of the portico and two marble lions in front of the staircase; Italian architect Ferdinando Pellichio was their designer. Count Pier has survived many historic events which a lot of memorial boards talk about. One of them on the pier's wall reminds: "Conducting the fight with its enemy the cruiser "The Red Ukraine" was lost here in 12 November, 1941". The soldiers of the second guards army forcing the Northern Bay disembarked on the pier in 9 May, 1944.
 

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