[citation needed] Zatoka Bridge opened in 1955 and carries the R70 national road and the railway line from Odesa to Bessarabia.

[3] Near the village there is a monument of Trypillian culture and the Copper Age - Akkembetskyi mound.

The settlement of Zatoka was founded in 1827, as a result of the installation of a navigation marker (lighthouse) at the Tsarehradske mouth.

The southern part of modern Zatoka (Bugaz) belonged to Romania.

On August 21-22, 1944, the Dniester landing operation took place, as a result of which Zatoka was liberated.

In 1953, the Zatoka elementary school was located in the barracks left by the bridge builders.

[4] On 19 September 2015, local Euromaidan activist Andriy Yusov was beaten up in the town by people with pro-Russian views.