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Chornomorsk (, ), formerly Illichivsk (), is a city in Odesa Raion, Odesa Oblast, south-western Ukraine, dependent on the Port of Chornomorsk. It hosts the administration of Chornomorsk urban hromada, one of the of Ukraine. The city is located around the Sukhyi Estuary. Its population was given as
Originally, the city was established as a satellite town of Odesa.
In 1952 a port was established, and its surrounding territory was urbanized and converted into a city called Illichivsk (). The city was designed to become a new home for the Black Sea Shipping Company (then the largest operator of passenger and commercial vessels in the world). Originally a builder's trailer village, Chornomorsk has expanded to become Ukraine's most prosperous town by income per capita. Residents are mostly employed by the port (one of the largest ports of Europe) and in the maritime industry. Residents of Odesa have recently begun relocating to lower-cost but higher-income Chornomorsk.
On 15 May 2015 the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, signed a bill into law which began a six-months period for the removal of communist monuments and the mandatory renaming of settlements with names related to Communism. Порошенко підписав закони про декомунізацію Poroshenko. Ukrayinska Pravda. 15 May 2015
Poroshenko signs laws on denouncing Communist, Nazi regimes, Interfax-Ukraine. 15 May 20
Goodbye, Lenin: Ukraine moves to ban communist symbols, BBC News (14 April 2015) On 12 November 2015, the city council decided to rename the city to Chornomorsk (after the Black Sea (), on the coast of which the city stands). The decision was confirmed by the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian parliament) on 4 February 2016.
The city's former name, Illichivsk, was an homage to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union.
Until 18 July 2020, Chornomorsk was incorporated as a city of oblast significance and the center of Illichivsk Municipality. The municipality was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Odesa Oblast to seven. The area of Illichivsk Municipality was merged into Odesa Raion.
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The city also has a freight railway station. The port is on one of the freight routes of China's proposed Eurasian Land Bridge (part of the "New Silk Road"), which would see an eastern link to China via ferry to Georgia, Azerbaijan and across the Caspian Sea, and a western link by train to western Europe.
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