Odessa General Tips by Klod5

Favorite Thing: So Odessa had to be summarized by only one picture, it would be the one of a baby carriage descending the marches after a fusillade... To this detail near : that the fusillade never had for setting the Richelieu staircase.

Fondest Memory: Architect Franz Boffo, in 1841, constructed its monument for the travelers arriving of the sea. large of 21 meters to the basis, of 13 to the summit, high of 27 meters, the staircase appears bigger seen of the harbor. The 192 marches made of sandstone one been replaced by the granite in the years 1930.
Constructs in 1908, a funicular flanked the staircase, then it has been replaced, in the years 60 by the present escalator.

In the bottom of the photo : 'Kempinsky' hotel

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Favorite Thing: On the harbor, before the entry of the maritime station, facing the terminal of the travelers, you won't be able to miss this charming sculpture of bronze to the rounded shapes. I think that it is very "Zen", a lot of "Yang" with its soft and round shapes. Ukrainian people names this sculpture "A child is newborn".

This sculpture is The Golden Child - sculptor Ernst Neizvestny

Fondest Memory: The Odessant's bindioujnik, always slanderous say that this sculpture to cost very dear... "worse that Krik Benia"

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Favorite Thing: ...The Odessa period of Pushkin's art was a frutful one. During 13 months of his staying here (from 03.07.1823 to 01.08.1824) the great poet begun to work under "Tzigans" poem, wrote "The fountain of Bakhchisaray" and two chapters of "Eugene Onegin" novel. The odessits honoured the memory of the talented artist; now one of the main street of the city is named after Alexander Pushkin. The monument to Alexander Pushkin, located just opposite the Municipal Building, was unveiled in 1889. A bronze bust of the great poet was modelled by the sculptor Zh. Polonskaya. A granite pedestal executed according to the plan drawn up by the architect Kh. Vasilyev, is given the form of a truncated pyramid edges. Water jetting from the fishes' mouths flows down into the shell-shaped bowis of iron placed on the granite stylobate.


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Favorite Thing: The architectural ensemble of Primorsky Boulevard attests to the high standards of Odessa architects. Designed as the compositional pivot of the city, the Boulevard runs along the sealine. The middle section of the Boulevard is occupied by the semi-circular square with the monument to A.-E.Richelieu in the centre. The buildings of the stock exchange and the Vorontsov Palace terminate the Boulevard on each end to form an integral balanced whole. The architectural rhythm of Primorsky Boulevard, enhanced by horizontal terraces, is interrupted by the vertical line of the grandiose Stairs terraces, is interrupted by the vertical line of the grandiose Stairs which were given the name of Potemkin.


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Favorite Thing: Odessa has preserved its inimitable architectural aspect through the decades. It was precisely in the latter half of the 19th century that a number of the significant monuments of architecture, including the Theatre of Opera and Ballet, the buildings of the New Stock Exchange, pawnshop and public library were erected. The best representatives of a new generation of architects designed projects which proved most effective and at the same time, the architects took into account the characteristic traits of the southern town. Many buildings in Odessa were built of shell-limestone, which seemed to be saturated with hot sunshine. The shell-limestone was simultaneously extracted from different deposits which resulted in the formation of an entire labyrinth of underground galleries. During the Great Patriotic War of 1941 - 1945, Odessa partisans operated from these underground passeges which were inaccesible to the fascists. It is long ago that guns ceased thundering, gunsmoke dissipated and the trenches grew with grass... Odessa land has held sacred the memory of those who, at the cost of their lives, upheld freedom of the country...


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Favorite Thing: Memorial erected on the site of a bastion of the earthen fortress The grounds of the present-day stadium were once the site of a fortress surrounded by an earthen rampart. It was built in 1793 to the plan eleborated by the engineer F. Devollan and approved by A. Suvorov, who at that time was entrusted with the defence of the Southern Russia. In 1891, one of the fortress bastions was replaced by a granite column to the design of the architect N. Barinov. It was reconstructed in 1978 and a memorial plaque was attached featuring a bas-relief representation of A. Suvorov, the great Russian military commander.


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Favorite Thing: The Potemkin Stairs are a formal entrance into the city from the direction of the sea. Sure, each city has it own place of mostly pronounced originality. For Odessa, no doubt, it will be Potemkin Stairs. The stairs leading from Prymorsky Boulevard down to the sea were constructed from 1837 through 1841 to the design of the architect F. Bofford. This imposing monument numbers 192 stairsarranged in ten flights and flanked by two-metre thick parapets. The difference in width between the highest (13.4 m) and the lowest (21.6 m) flights produces an optical illusion that enhances the grandeur of the structure. Originally, the stairs were faced with grey Trieste sandstone. With time, however, the sandstone weathered and was replaced with granite.

The famous Potemkin Stairs serve as a symbol of the city. It has recently been complemented with ramp overbridges to extend as far as the Novy Pier, where a modern structure of the new seaport is located on a high platform. Memorial plagues state that it was on precisely this spot that the first Odessa buildings were founded in 1794.


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