Odessa ... A magnificent city on the Black Sea coast. But Odessa is not only a lot of architectural sights, magnificent beaches and a special aura, Odessa is also a story full of events, sometimes joyful, sometimes dramatic.

Despite the fact that people have settled on the Black Sea the coast has long been evidenced by numerous archaeological finds on the territory of the city, Odessa counts the years of its life from 1794, when Catherine II's rescript of the city and port was issued.

Of course, the port always imposes a certain imprint on life the city, and participation in the construction of Odessa European architects and engineers has led to the fact that it differs markedly in its appearance from other Russian and Ukrainian cities.
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The Russian Drama Theater in Odessahttp: //drive.google.com/uc ? export = view & id = 1zDKE0lijCOm9QthKbQ7ThZifz8qujVgB The history of Odessa

Thanks to a combination of circumstances and a successful geographical position for the years of the 19th century, Odessa has become a major commercial, industrial and port city, important in the economic and cultural life of the Russian Empire .. His governors-general played an important role in the life of the city, among them were such outstanding people as Richelieu, Langeron, Vorontsov, Stroganov, Kotzebue . Each of them introduced his weighty mite in the development of the city: with the streets, the streets improved, the port improved, Odessa was connected by railways to other Russian cities . The memory of the wise city governors is immortalized in the sights of Odessa .

The city was beautiful before our eyes, and there was nothing like that in 1800 he was on the brink of death due to the termination of financing the construction of the port. The city's magistrate applied for a loan to Emperor Paul by "enclosing" a batch of gorgeous Greek oranges.

The request and gift was accepted, the application was granted, the city was saved, and 200 years after that event, in Odessa in 2004 a monument to an orange that saved the city was opened.

The 20th century left many significant pages in the chronicle of the city. This is the defense of Odessa in 1941, and its occupation by Hitler's troops, and the restoration after the war, which brought the city new factories, new berths of the port, and the loss of economic power due to the severance of ties with the former Soviet republics, and a new revival. But still Odessa is a pearl by the sea, it is impossible to admire it.

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