Shabo, Ukraine

Shabo (Ukrainian: Шабо; Romanian: Șaba-Târg or Șaba) is a selo of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion, Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, situated at the Dniester Liman, some 7 km downstream of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi.

[1] A Tatar village was established c. 1500, called Acha-abag "the lower vineyards" (attested 1788).

Emperor Alexander I decided to re-populate the region, in 1822 inviting Swiss settlers from Vaud, led by Louis-Vincent Tardent [ru], to cultivate vineyards at Shabo.

[citation needed] In 1889, the village Osnovy was founded in what is now southern Ukraine by settlers from Shabo.

Osnovy became a significant grape plantation and winemaking site, where the wine was exported through the port of Brytany (present-day Dnipriany).