Odessa Ukraine: blog about Odessa food, apartments, night life

    No discussion of the architecture of Odessa would be complete without at least reference to the gigantic stairway leading from Primorsky Boulevard down to the port, the source of most of the city's wealth. It was designed by Francesco...

    Story about history of cinema in Odessa presented by travel agency Odessa Apartments  ( Аренда квартир в Одессе ).
    The history of Russian photography began in Odessa, where major photography studios opened as early as 1842. Pioneers of...

    The famous Privoz Market—noisy, slightly crooked, and ethnically diverse—was yet another visiting card of both old and new Odessa. Here today, as a hundred years ago, untranslatable Odessa jokes arise and several generations...

    Although the French, Swiss, British, and Italians did not form a large percentage of the population, they had a strong cultural influence. The Italian influence is perhaps the most obvious. In the first decades of the nineteenth century...