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Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrative centre of the Odesa Raion and Odesa Oblast, as well as a multiethnic cultural centre.
- Historic Centre of Odesa
The Historic Centre of Odesa (Ukrainian: Історичний центр...
- Odessa (Disambiguation)
Odessa (commonly spelled Odesa) is the third-largest city in...
- Odesa Raion
Odesa Raion (also sometimes spelled as Odessa Raion;...
- Potemkin Stairs
The Potemkin Stairs, Potemkin Steps (Ukrainian:...
- Culture
References. Further reading. Culture of Odesa. The culture...
- Timeline
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of...
- Historic Centre of Odesa
- Before The 20th Century
- 15th Century
- Origins of The Name
- First Half of The 20th Century
- Second Half of The 20th Century
A very old Greek colony named Olbia (Greek: Ολβία, glorious) perhaps was where the city is now. Many monuments link this place to the Eastern Mediterranean. In the Middle Ages, these lands were a part of the Kievan Rus, Galich and Volyn Principality, the Golden Horde, the Great Lithuanian Principality, the Crimean Khanate and the Ottoman Empire. Th...
In the 15th century AD, nomadic tribes of the Nogays, under the government of the Khanate of Crimea, lived there. During the reign of Khan Haci I Giray, he was in danger from the Golden Horde and the Ottoman Turks. To get help, the khan gave Odesa to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The place now called Odesa was then named Khadjibey. It was part of t...
In 1794, the Russiangovernment decided to build a naval fortress on the ruins of Khadjibey city. In 1795 its new name was first written in government letters. The reasons for the new name are lost, but people had theories.
In 1905 Odesa was the place of a workers' uprising supported by the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin (also see Battleship Potemkin uprising) and Lenin's Iskra. Sergei Eisenstein's famous motion picture, The Battleship Potemkin,was about the uprising and included a scene where hundreds of Odesan citizens were killed on the great stone stairca...
During the 1960s and 1970s, the city grew tremendously. Between the 1970s and 1990s, most of Odesa's surviving Jews emigrated to Israel, the United States and other Western countries. Many of Odesa's middle and upper classes moved to Moscow and Leningrad.The city grew even more with new ruralmigrants elsewhere from Ukraine. Industrial professionals...
Feb 25, 2022 · Odessa is located in the South-west of Ukraine, about 275 miles south of the capital city, Kyiv, and about 360 miles northeast of the Romanian capital of Bucharest. The bustling port city is also situated on the North-west coast of the Black Sea. Odessa experiences a temperate climate.
Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrative centre of the Odesa Raion and Odesa Oblast, as well as a multiethnic cultural centre.
The Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa is the Orthodox Cathedral in Odesa, Ukraine, dedicated to the Transfiguration of Jesus and belongs to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate). It was severely damaged by a Russian missile attack on Odesa on July 23, 2023.
References. Further reading. Culture of Odesa. The culture of Odesa is a unique blend of Russian, Yiddish, and Ukrainian cultures, and Odesa itself has played a notable role in Russian and Yiddish folklore. [1] Dialects. The Russian language as spoken in Odesa is influenced by Yiddish and Ukrainian in grammar, vocabulary, and phraseology.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Odessa, Ukraine . 13th to 17th century. 1240 – Tatars begin settling herds in the region. 1415 – A settlement of Kachibei ( Khadjibey, Hacıbey, Kotsiubiyiv) was first mentioned. [1] [2] [3] 15th century – Khadjibey ceded to Lithuania. 1529 – Ottoman conquest. [citation needed] 18th century.
