Artyleriyska Bay, Maritime inlet in Sevastopol, Ukraine

Artyleriyska Bay is a maritime inlet that extends into Sevastopol and forms part of the larger Bay of Sevastopol. The bay provides protected waters for vessels and maritime activities with multiple points where people can access the shoreline.

The bay is named after the artillery depots and workshops set up on its banks when Akhtiar (from 1784 Sevastopol) was founded in 1783; the left bank later held the artillery business yard repairing fleet guns. Before the Russian annexation of the Crimean Khanate it was known as Qadı Liman, from qadı (judge) and liman (harbour). A commercial port for internal trade opened here in the mid-1820s, and from November 1871 to July 1877 the city's hydrometeorological station stood just south of the bay.

The bay connects to traditional fishing practices that local fishermen continue to use in these waters today. Everyday boat work and nets remain a familiar sight along the shoreline.

You can access the bay from several points along the shoreline where boats can be launched and maritime work takes place. Both commercial and recreational water activities are supported in open areas throughout the bay.

Before 1958 the bay continued inland as the Odeska ravine, also called the City or Central ravine; the gully was filled in that year. In the early 1980s the retired training barquentine Kropotkin was moored at the bay's mouth as the restaurant Barkentina, closed during the anti-alcohol campaign and burned in 1987; the hull was dismantled in 1990.