Odessa city tour

Your tour in Odessa can starts by the Gare Maritime (1968). From this station, you can climb up Primorsky boulevard (Front Sea) by the stairs of the “Potemkin” which, along with the architectural ensemble of the Primorsky Boulevard, the grand entrance of the city . The staircase of the “Potemkin”, which got its name after the uprising aboard the battleship “Potemkin” was built between 1834 and 1841. It is 142m long and has 192 steps. On the upper platform of the stairs, in 1828, was erected a monument to Duke Richelieu, governor of the city from 1803 to 1814. Right and left of the monument, as representing the wings of the staircase “Potemkin” stand two semicircular buildings built 1827-1828 and forming a unique architectural staircase with the monument. Right and left of this place extends Primorsky Boulevard (Front Sea), the call simply Odessites Boulevard.

When sound exile in Odessa in 1823-1824, A. Pushkin often walked on the Boulevard. In 1888, thanks to a subscription launched by intellectual opinion of the city, they installed a bust of the poet. In the southern part of the Boulevard, where, during the Crimean War of 1853-1856, stood a Russian battery was installed a canon taken aboard the British frigate “Tiger”.

Boulevard buildings mostly date from the first half of the nineteenth century. The building at No. 1 was built in 1826-1827 in the style of classic Russian Governor General of the Territory of Novorossiisk, Count Vorontsov. This is one of the oldest buildings in the city.

This is the same style that appealed in 1834 to build the Exchange whose facade is decorated with statues of Ceres and Mercury. You will not without noticing the architecture of the former Palace of the Princess Naryshkin (today is the House of sailors), the building housing the hotel “Odessa” (former Hotel London ), etc..

At No. 4 Street Lastochkin, you can visit the Archaeological Museum, which was founded in 1825. You will find a collection of rare relating to the history of the Black Sea coast. The building itself is an architectural monument of Latin nineteenth century. In front of the museum you can see a copy of the old group “Laocoon”.

The house at No. 6, which is the oldest building of the English Club (1842) now houses the Maritime Museum.

Lastochkin parallel to the street, to the west of it, passes the main street of Odessa, Déribassovskaïa street takes its name from that of Admiral De Ribas, participating in the attack against the Turkish fortress of Khadzhi- Chief Bey and construction of the seaport. Throughout this street, you will find that shops, cinemas and cafes. At No. 16 stands the old building of the former Lycée Richelieu, who was the first school in Odessa. In 1825, lived in this building the great Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz. At the north end of the street Déribassovskaïa the right side lies the Garden of public sculptures decorated decorative bronze was drawn in 1798.

At the corner of Déribassovskaïa a house in one floor, in the early nineteenth century was the Chancellery of Count Vorontsov where A. Pushkin spent his exile as secretary of college (grade civil).

A little further north stands a monument to Count Vorontsov (1853).

In this part of the city, we also recommend that you visit the University building built between 1852 and 1865 (2, rue Peter the Great).

In the street Krasny Pereulok, at No. 18, is a house where the Hetairia in 1814 took place at meetings of the political organization of Philomuses Metairie, who fought for the liberation of Greece from the Turkish yoke, the n # 27 Zhukovsky street lived in 1883.1890 and 1893 the Ukrainian poet Lessia Oukraïnka.

Boulevard, you can earn the railway station by taking the Pushkin street very shady. Architectural whole is formed entirely in the nineteenth century. Here, not far from the intersection with the street Déribassovskaïa, in a building dating from 1856, is one of the most important museums of Ukraine, the Art Museum of Western and Eastern (No. 9).

Later, at No. 13, where in 1821 lived A. Pushkin Museum was opened on literature devoted to the poet.

From architectural point of view, you will be interested to see the buildings of the hotel “Krasnaya” and the Philharmonic (formerly Board of Trade).

In the south-east of the city at the very edge of the sea stretches the largest park in Odessa, Central Park T. Shevchenko. You can see an interesting monument of architecture: Arcades, quarantine remains of the wall of the eighteenth century.

Since the Central Park T Shevchenko westward along the coast of the Gulf of Odessa, lies a stretch of beaches and resorts.

From Odessa, you can make a trip to the city of Belgorod-Dnestrovski, 85 km. You will discover interesting excavations of the ancient Greek colony called Tir (fourth century BCE).