Off the Beaten Path in Odessa

Georgy Zhukov memorial
plaque, Ostrovidov Street

There are dozens of memorial plaques at the city buildings and apartment houses. They commemorate people who used to live and to work here. This is one of them. It is located in Ostrovidov Street and dedicated to Georgy Zhukov (1896 – 1974), Marshall of the Soviet Union, who used to live and to serve in Odessa from June 13, 1946 till December 1947 as the Commander-in-Chief of Odessa Military District. That was a kind of exile for him for he had been the Commander-in-Chief of the Land Forces of the Soviet Union since March 1946 and then suddenly fell into Stalin’s disgrace and was urgently sent to Odessa: out of sight, out of mind… He resumed his leadership as the Commander-in-Chief of the Land Forces of the Soviet Union only after Stalin’s death in March 1953 and had to resign finally in 1957. Marshall Zhukov is considered to be Russia’s most talented general after Generalissimo Alexander Suvorov who died in 1801.

Website: www.odessapassage.com


	Modern Knights in Action	Tip Rating:

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on October 14, 2006

Belgorod-Dniestrovsky, Odessa
region

If you want to see a real Knights’ Tournament, you can go to the city of Belgorod-Dnistrovsky located about 100 km to the west of Odessa. The knights have imitation armor made carefully after ancient samples of the 12th and 13th century. The tournament is officially called Open Championship of Odessa Region in Historic Fencing, although in practice this competition is All-Ukrainian for there are participants from all over Ukraine here. Besides, “knights” from neighboring Moldova and Russian also take part in it. There are several nominations for participants: Sword-Sword and Shield-Sword. The jury is very strict and checks not only the “authentic look” of the knight, but also his technical fighting. The spectacular event takes place at the old fortress located on the outskirts of that southern city.


	Holy Assumption Cathedral	Tip Rating:

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on January 22, 2008

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Assumption Cathedral,
Odessa, Ukraine

I remember visiting Uspenskaya Cathedral (Holy (Assumption Catghdral) located at 70 Preobrazhenskaya (Transfiguration) Street. It is not far from the railway station. The cathedral is quite old. It was dedicated in 1869. The Orthodox people call it "a temple". It has five domes and a high belfry. The main relic of the Assumption Cathedral is the wonder-working icon of the Most Holy Mother of God of Caspersk. This icon is known to have saved the city from complete destruction during the Crimean War in October 1855. The cathedral dean is Fr. Agaphangel, Metropolitan of Odessa and Ismail.

Phone: fax(0482) 25 82 55

Website: www.odessapassage.com

Other Contact: (0482) 25 82 63


	The Black Sea Hollywood	Tip Rating:

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on September 4, 2004

Odessa Film Studio, Ukraine

The Black Sea Hollywood - this is how Odessa Film Studio is often called. It was founded in 1919 and is now one of the three Ukrainian film studios. Lots of famous films have been created by this studio. It's located in French Boulevard. If you want to see the building, take tram #5 from the railway station in the direction of Arcadia sanatorium and Russia hotel. (10 minutes' ride by tram) or just take a taxi ($3).


	Vylkovo, Venice Of Ukraine	Tip Rating:

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on August 7, 2005

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This is a great one-day trip from Odessa. Vylkovo is on the very south of Ukraine, on a boarder with Romainia, with just Danube river between. Vylkovo is crisscrossed by narrow cannals (therefore comparison with Venice), where you can walk among small, picturesque houses or take a bout tour and observe how people of Vylkovo are living. The feeling is like time stooped here. My Vylkovo Page


	Laocoon	Tip Rating:

Updated By hunterV

on February 20, 2008

Laocoon sculpture

There is an interesting sculpture to the right of the entrance to the archeological museum: Laocoon. It depicts old Laocoon and two of his sons being stifled by a huge snake. The sculpture illustrates a famous Greek legend.


	Archeological Museum	Tip Rating:

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on February 20, 2008

Archeological Museum

You can visit this museum if you are interested in atcheology and would like to learn more things about the past of this area. It's located at the end of Primosrky Boulevard.


	Catacombs	Tip Rating:

By Lubok

on August 18, 2003

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A hundreds or even thouthands kilometers of catacombs are under Odessa. During WW2 catacombs were the home for patizan troops. Now - the headache for municipality :))


	The fundation ...	Tip Rating:

By Klod5

on April 30, 2003

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In Odessa's streets

The 2 September 1794 under the surveiyng of General Major duke Suvorov they begun the foundatory works for future port. From the height of the present day it is not so easy to picture what tremendous efforts and civic courage were required of the Khadzibey's pioneers. After, the fortress and the port which idea suggested by Suvorov, gave rise to the future town. Firstly, not more than 30 buildings in stone were erected along the harbour. An arsenal, storehouses, hospital frontier control and carantin buildings were built by first Khadzibey's inhabitants: soldiers, kossaks and sailors of Deribas' float. On 1795 the fortress has been renamed into Odessa. The development of Odessa has much in common with that of Petersburg which was often referred to as the "Nothern Palmira". Odessa was founded on the Black Sea coast as a "window on Europe", and just like Petersburg, it sprang up in an undeveloped area, far from inhabited lands.


	A dissident City	Tip Rating:

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on April 30, 2003

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In Odessa

The unique position of Odessa - a vital trade link between the West and the East, and the growth in importance of Russia's external trade through the Black Sea in the 19th century made way for the establishment of a big trade port centre and the development of Odessa into an advanced European city. A crucial event in the trade policy was the declaration of a free port regime in Odessa in August, 1819, establishing a customs border in the vicinity. It was aimed at overcoming scarcity in the domestic market, by the attraction of investment capital. It was also done because of the absence of Russia's trade fleet in the Black Sea. By 1820 Odessa had become an important commercial, industrial and cultural centre in the southern part of tsarist Russia and the greatest sea-port on the Black Sea. The economy of Odessa was based on private businesses. They made the city a 'dissident' in the old feudal Russia.