Odessa.

      Odessa is the fourth largest city in Ukraine. Population: 1,029,000.
The city is a major seaport on the Black Sea, the largest port in Ukraine.
       Remembering Odessa say "Odessa - Mom, why?
First let "Odessa- Mom" we remember "Mum Odessa" - Yekaterina II, published order on the construction of Odessa. Secondly it is connected with the spirit of Odessa. As my mother grows her children and then releases them in the light and Odessa grows odessitov many of whom are leaving it.
     Ivan Martos's statue of Duc de Richelieu in Odessa Richelieu Street and the Opera Theater
he city was officially founded in 1794 as a Russian naval fortress on the ruins of Khadjibey and renamed Odessa by January 1795, when its new name was first mentioned in official correspondence. Neither the origin of the new name nor reasons for renaming are known, though etymologies and anecdotes abound. According to one of the stories, when someone suggested Odessos as a name for the new Russian port, Catherine II said that all names in the South of the Empire were already 'masculine,' and didn't want yet another one, so she decided to change it to more 'feminine' Odessa.

Catherine II

Duc de Richelieu.

     Odessa catacombs.
     Most of the city's 19th century houses were built of limestone mined nearby. Abandoned mines were later used and broadened by local smugglers. This created a gigantic complicated labyrinth of underground tunnels beneath Odessa, known as "catacombs". They are a now a great attraction for extreme tourists.

The exact length of the chart and the Odessa catacombs unknown, but estimated it
exceeds 3.5 thousand kilometers.

Sculpture "Stealing the Europe".

Seaport of Odessa.

Opera Theater.

Building of the city council.

  POTEMKINSKAYA LESTNITSA, at 142 metres long, was built in 1837 year, and is one of the best places in town overlooking the harbor and the bay. Looking down from the top of stairs, steps seem to be invisible and visible only intervals between levels, and vice versa - at the foot seems that the ladder consists of a continuum of steps. On both sides of a stone parapet ladder, which, at first glance, parallel to each other.

   The Battleship Potemkin has been called one of the most influential films of all time, and was named the greatest film of all time at the World's Fair at Brussels, Belgium, in 1958. The film is composed of five episodes: "The Odessa Staircase" (Одесская лестница)
The most famous scene in the film is the massacre of civilians on the Odessa Steps (also known as the Primorsky or Potemkin Stairs).