akhtiyar bay was studied back in the days of the first russian-turkish war, measurements of pigeons were made, the fact is that its location, its organization is so convenient for maintaining a harbor and a naval fleet there, because it is shot from both sides and blocked. there are convenient approaches, there you can block off the depth of the bay, so it was studied back in 1771-72, then in 1782 the depths were measured again, that is, it was not a seven-minute decision to create sevastopol as the main a military fortress on the black sea and a base of the black sea fleet. it was a deliberate, balanced decision, it was potemkin’s personal decision, his personal participation in the development of crimea, so he chose the place for sevastopol. you are sailors, batsyuzhki, young flyers, youngsters. this is how we were assigned calm in the month of april, in 1783 - according to the new style, this is may 13, 10 ships came here under the command of the first commander of the black sea fleet, fedot alekseevich klokachev. this means that a very good place was chosen in present-day nikolaev,