Izmail

Izmail is a city and municipality on the left bank of the Chilia branch of the Danube in the Odesa Oblast of south-western Ukraine. It is the largest Ukrainian port in the Danube Delta and the largest city of the Budjak area of southern Bessarabia, and it is the administrative centre of Izmail Raion. The economy rests on food processing and river trade, the Ukrainian Navy and Sea Guard keep river units there, and the Isles of Izmail Regional Landscape Park lies nearby. The place grew around a fortress that Genoese merchants built in the twelfth century, which later passed between Moldavia, the Ottoman Empire, Russia and Romania. Russian historiography remembers it for the storming of the Ottoman fortress by General Suvorov in December 1790. A 2022 estimate gives it 69,932 residents.