Melitopol is a melting pot of different nationalities and cultures, representatives of more than 100 natinonalities have been living here together in peace. An association of national-cultural societies is actively working in the city. In 2008 Melitopol became a member of the international project of the Council of Europe "Intercultural Cities". City confidently and clearly stated its goals in this program. Three flagship projects were identified as belonging to the future of the municipal program "Melitopol - European Intercultural City." The project on which the city works under the Council of Europe project, is called "Creation of Intercultural Park �Melito-Park�. The aim of the project is to create an intercultural park where people of different nationalities could meet and communicate. There is a design project of Intercultural Park, prepared by a group of European architects and designers led by Mark Glaudemans - Director of the European Laboratory for urban planning, the Dean of the Academy of Architecture and Urbanism (city of Tilburg, Netherlands).
As ethnic conflicts are not a problem for Melitopol, city authorities are trying to identify the potential diversity for the mobilization of efforts and creativity of different ethnic groups to develop and implement innovative projects revival.
Among all the diversity of cultural events in Melitopol there are unique activities:
1. the Festival of Brides
2. "Miss and Mister Interculturality" contest
3. the Cherry Festival "Chereshnevo"
4. the Honey Festival "Medovo"
Melitopol has 38 monuments, memorials and statues registered.
One of them is the statue of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, the famous hetman of Ukraine. His images are printed on Ukrainian 5 hryvnia's banknotes.
The other one represents Ostap Bender a hero of the book of Ilf and Petrov "12 chairs"
