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The Best Attractions In Odessa

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Odessa is the third most populous city of Ukraine and a major tourism center, seaport and transportation hub located on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. It is also the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast and a multiethnic cultural center. Odessa is sometimes called the pearl of the Black Sea, the South Capital , and Southern Palmyra.Before the Tsarist establishment of Odessa, an ancient Greek settlement existed at its location as elsewhere along the northwestern Black Sea coast. A relatively more recent Tatar settlement was also founded at the location by Hacı I Giray, the Khan of Crimea in 1440 that was named after him as Hacıbey. Aft...
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The Best Attractions In Odessa

  • 1. City Garden Odessa
    Odessa is the third most populous city of Ukraine and a major tourism center, seaport and transportation hub located on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. It is also the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast and a multiethnic cultural center. Odessa is sometimes called the pearl of the Black Sea, the South Capital , and Southern Palmyra.Before the Tsarist establishment of Odessa, an ancient Greek settlement existed at its location as elsewhere along the northwestern Black Sea coast. A relatively more recent Tatar settlement was also founded at the location by Hacı I Giray, the Khan of Crimea in 1440 that was named after him as Hacıbey. After a period of Lithuanian Grand Duchy control, Hacibey and surroundings became part of the domain of the Ottomans in 1529 and remained there...
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  • 2. Deribasovskaya Street Odessa
    Vulytsia Derybasivska or ulitsa Deribasovskaya is a pedestrian walkway in the heart of Odessa, Ukraine. The street is named after José de Ribas, who helped build the city, who was its first mayor and who lived on the street. Next to the street is Odessa's first park, which was built shortly after the foundation of the city in 1803 by the De Ribas brothers, Joseph and Felix . This park has a fountain, bandstand, and several monuments, including a sculpture of a lion and lioness with her cubs, a chair commemorating the famous book The Twelve Chairs, two monuments to Leonid Utyosov , and a monument to Sergey Utochkin, a famous pilot. Derybasivska Street was previously named Gimnazskaya Street after the Gymnasium which opened April 16, 1804. It was renamed for de Ribas on July 6, 1811, being ...
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  • 4. Secrets of Underground Odessa Museum Odessa
    The Lithuanian Security Police , also known as Saugumas , was a local police force that operated in German-occupied Lithuania from 1941 to 1944, in collaboration with the occupational authorities. Collaborating with the Nazi Sipo and SD , the unit was directly subordinate to the German Kripo . The LSP took part in perpetrating the Holocaust in Lithuania, persecuting Polish resistance and communist underground.
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  • 5. Primorsky Boulevard Odessa
    The Potemkin Stairs, or Potemkin Steps , is a giant stairway in Odessa, Ukraine. The stairs are considered a formal entrance into the city from the direction of the sea and are the best known symbol of Odessa. The stairs were originally known as the Boulevard steps, the Giant Staircase, or the Richelieu steps. The top step is 12.5 meters wide, and the lowest step is 21.7 meters wide. The staircase extends for 142 meters, but it gives the illusion of greater length. The stairs were so precisely constructed as to create an optical illusion. A person looking down the stairs sees only the landings, and the steps are invisible, but a person looking up sees only steps, and the landings are invisible.
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  • 6. Potemkin Steps Odessa
    The Potemkin Stairs, or Potemkin Steps , is a giant stairway in Odessa, Ukraine. The stairs are considered a formal entrance into the city from the direction of the sea and are the best known symbol of Odessa. The stairs were originally known as the Boulevard steps, the Giant Staircase, or the Richelieu steps. The top step is 12.5 meters wide, and the lowest step is 21.7 meters wide. The staircase extends for 142 meters, but it gives the illusion of greater length. The stairs were so precisely constructed as to create an optical illusion. A person looking down the stairs sees only the landings, and the steps are invisible, but a person looking up sees only steps, and the landings are invisible.
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  • 8. Museum of Interesting Science Odessa
    Mykolayiv Regional Museum of Local History “Staroflotski Barracks” is one of the oldest museums in Ukraine. It was established on 15 December 1913.
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  • 9. Beach Golden Shore Odessa
    This is a list of beaches of the world, sorted by country. A beach is a landform along the shoreline of an ocean, sea, lake, or river. It usually consists of loose particles, which are often composed of rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles, or cobblestones. Beaches typically occur in areas along the coast where wave or current action deposits and reworks sediments. The particles comprising a beach are occasionally biological in origin, such as mollusc shells or coralline algae.
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  • 10. The Odessa Port Odessa
    The Odessa Review is a print English language cultural magazine was founded and named after the Black Sea port city of Odessa, Ukraine. The magazine offices are now based in Kyiv. It focuses on issues related to the literary and intellectual life of Ukraine as well as policy, political and identity issues related to modern day Ukrainian culture. A special emphasis is placed on cultural coverage covering the intellectual trends of the Black Sea Region. The magazine's target readership is the English language Ukrainian diaspora and readers interested in the development of contemporary Ukrainian culture as well as that of Eastern Europe. The magazine appears six times a in print form and online .
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  • 11. Arcadia Beach Odessa
    Arcadia beach is Odessa, Ukraine's most famous beach. It is located in the Arcadia quarter. The founders of Odessa chose this name for this area in the hopes it would help make is a success as a holiday resort. There is a main beach which has water slides and several smaller beaches. Arcadia is a popular beach, health resort, and summer nightspot in Odessa. Its nightclubs are open from May through September, and are Odessa's primary nightlife during that time.
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