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Landmark Attractions In Odessa Oblast

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Odessa Oblast is an oblast of southwestern Ukraine, located along the northern coast of the Black Sea. The oblast consists in the eastern part of the historical region of Novorossiya and the southern part of the historical region of Bessarabia . Its administrative center is the city of Odessa . The region, the largest in Ukraine by area, approximates the size of either Belgium or the Netherlands. The length of coastline reaches 300 km , while the state border stretches for 1,200 km . The region has eight sea-ports, over 80,000 ha of vineyards, and five of the biggest lakes in Ukraine. One of the largest, Yalpuh Lake, is as large as the city of Odessa i...
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Landmark Attractions In Odessa Oblast

  • 1. 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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  • 2. 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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  • 3. 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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  • 5. Vorontsov Lighthouse Odessa
    The Vorontsov Lighthouse is a red-and-white, 27.2 metre tall lighthouse in the Black Sea port of Odessa, Ukraine. It is named after Prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov, one of the governors-general of the Odessa region.
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  • 9. Passage Odessa
    Odessa Passage is a passage and a hotel on Deribasivska Street in the centre of Odessa. It has 4 floors. On the ground floor there are many boutiques and on other 3 floors there is a hotel. Odessa Passage was built at the end of the 19th century and was the best hotel in Southern Russia until the Bristol Hotel was opened. The inside and exterior of the Passage building are decorated by numerous sculptures. The Passage houses multiple shops, restaurants, offices and the economy hotel “Passage”. Passage is the most picturesque market of Odessa.
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  • 11. Monument to Catherine the Great and Founders of Odessa Odessa
    Monument to the founders of Odessa, also known as monument to Catherine the Great and her companions: José de Ribas, François Sainte de Wollant, Platon Zubov and Grigory Potemkin. Located in Odessa on Ekaterininskaya Square. Built in 1900 by the project of Odessa architect Yuri Melent’evich Dmitrenko. Sculptor M. Popov, with the participation of sculptors B.V. Eduards, M.D. Mentsione, engineer A. Sikorski. Dismantled in 1920. Restored in 2007 at the expense of the family of Ruslan Tarpan, Odessa businessman.
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