Odessa/Potemkin Stairs

Probably every third tourist who has arrived to Ukraine wants to visit this well-known city. Odessa is famous for the seaside resorts, and in Odessa people are notable for mentality and unusual sense of humour.

It is possible boldly to say that Odessa is a country in a country, but not a city of Ukraine.  There are even anecdotes on the subject of Windows and Odessa:

When you open a new document it is named after: “Here’s to you”

When you call up the question-answering system it is always appeared instruction how to prepare stuffed fish.

After Windows loading it is appeared inscription: “Thank’s for God, I’ve loaded and during 15 minutes a melody “Seven forty” is playing, which cannot be neither stop nor cancel.

On the subject of humour, it is necessary to visit Odessa, and to see everything first hand, because it is impossible to tell everything.

Odessa is famous for Potemkin Stair which today consists of 192 steps. It connects the center of a city with a harbour and a marine station. Its length is 142 meters. It was projected in 1825 by an architect Franchesko Boffo. But it was built in 1838. Erosion gradually destroyed Stairs, and in 1933 sandstone was changed to pink and grey granite, and grounds were covered with asphalt. It was changing the names connected with a history of Odessa reason – Boulevard stair, before Seafront stair, Rishel’evskaya stair.

Welcome to Odessa and don’t forget to walk through it.

Translate: Tatyiana Pavlenko

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