Culture

Day: August 2, 2011

  • Map

    1.  Sea Terminal 2.  Potemkin Stairway3.  Opera and Ballet Theatre 4.  Chernomorets Stadium 5.  Arcade 6.  Open-Air Theatre 7.  Railway Station 8.  Odessa Film Studios 9.  Hotel Arkadiya 10.  Hotel Tourist 11.  Restaurant Clechik 12.  Yacht Club 13.  Sports Palace 14.  Musical Comedy Theatre 15.  Army Sports Club Stadium 16.  Lermontov Resort 17.  Sanatorium Ukraina…

  • The Musical Comedy Theatre

    The Musical Comedy Theatre and on the left you will see the theatre itself (3, St. Chizhikova) – a new modern building completed in 1981. It is worth going to take a closer look. It was designed by architect G.Topuz and engineer A. Lyubovsky. At the entrance there is a sculpture of a girl with…

  • Ukrainian wines are tasted in this room at 19 Catherine st.

    On the left-hand side (No 8.) behind a red and white brick wall is the wine distillery. Its best produces, the dry wines “Perlina Stepu” and “Oksamit Ukrainy”, can be bought in the Ukrainian Wines shop in the centre of the city (st. Catherine), where it is also possible to taste about twenty varieties of…

  • Research Institute

    The Filatov Scientific Research Institute House No. 49/51 on the right-hand side of the street belongs to the Odessa Research Institute of Eye Dis­eases and Tissue Therapy founded in 1936. It bears the name of Academician Vladimir Filatov (1875-1956), the eminent Soviet ophthalmologist, known as a great fighter against blindness by his grateful patients from…

  • The University Botanical Gardens

    The University Botanical Gardens are on the left-hand side next to the grounds of the Dzerzhinsky sanatorium. The Gardens were founded in 1867, originally on the grounds of the University at No. 2 Ulitsa Petra Velikogo (2 Peter the Great St.), but were transferred to the present site in 1880. During the years of the…

  • The Arkadiya

    The fathers of Odessa chose this name for this lovely spot on the coast hoping it would help make it a success as a holiday resort. They were not mistaken. Private villas, restaurants and other holiday facilities were soon built. After the revolution it was developed as a health resort and is now one of…

  • The Children’s Sports Palace “Olympiyets”

    The Children’s Sports Palace “Olympiyets”. It caters for children from the age of seven. The building has a gymnasium, various games halls, a special section for the high, long and vault jumps, and a running track with a special artificial covering. The total floor space of the building is 3,600 square metres. There are the…

  • The State Designing and Research Institute of Marine and Voyage Holiday Hotel

    House No.12 on the right side is occupied by the Odessa Department of the State Designing and Research Institute of Marine Transport ” which designs modern ports and port complexes for the Black Sea and Azov Sea areas and also for the Danube. On the left-hand side of the street (No.29) there is light-coloured building…

  • Odessa National Polytechnic University

    Odessa National Polytechnic University. Its numerous buildings form a single architectural ensemble. The simplicity of style, laconic architectural forms and spacing of the buildings, interconnected by galleries, make it a pleasant sight. The facade of the right wing of the laboratory building is decorated with a panel of forged aluminium, symbolising scientific and technical progress.…

  • The Health Resort District Arkadiya

    The Health Resort District Arkadiya Privokzalnaya Ploshchad—Prospekt Shevchenko—Ploshchad Desyatogo Aprelya—Arkadiya—Ulitsa Pionerskaya— Proletarskiy Bulvar—Ulitsa Chizhikova-Privokzalnaya Ploshchad. This excursion to the oldest health-resort district Arkadiya (Arcadia) is best begun from Privokzalnaya Ploshchad (Railway Station Square). Take the No.7 trolleybus (the stop is on the left-hand side of the station, if you are facing it) and ride to…

  • Hotel Chernoye More

    Intourist hotel Chernoye More (Black Sea), house No. 59, opened in 1972, which can accommodate 360 visitors; and the twelve-storey Odessa Centre of Scientific and Technical Information and Propaganda (No. 28), built in 1980. The school building (No. 22) with a bas-relief of Lenin on its facade, was rebuilt in recent years and adds to…

  • Railway station

  • The Odessa Philharmonic Society and Interclub

    The building also houses “Interklub”, the International Seamen’s Club, or as it has been called by foreign seamen, “The House of Good Friends” because of its friendly atmosphere. The central hall of the club has stained-glass windows and an ancient Venetian chandelier. It is the centre of many activities and arranges get-togethers, excursions, visits to…

  • The Modern Centre of Odessa

    The Modern Centre of Odessa Ulitsa Pushkinskaya-Privokzalnaya Ploshchad-Ploshchad Oktyabrskoy Revolutsii-Ulitsa Lenina. Pushkinskaya Ulitsa (Pushkin St.) takes its beginning from Ploshchad Kommuny (Commune Square), which we visited during our first excursion. This time we start from the intersection of Pushkinskaya Ulitsa and Deribasovskaya Ulitsa (Deribasov St.) The street takes a quiet start, shadows fall on its…

  • Streets of Odessa

    Since 1932 the building has served as the Odessa Scientists’ Club. Apart from catering to the leisure needs of the scientists it is also the venue of international, national and republican symposia, conferences and seminars. It also houses the Odessa Department of the Ukrainian Society for Friendship and Cultural Ties with Foreign Countries. That is…

  • The Historical Centre of the City

    The Historical Centre of the Odessa Ploshchad Potemkintsev-Pereulok Mendeleyeva-Ulitsa Gogolya-Pereulok Nekrasova- Preobrazhenskaya street -Pereulok Mayakovskogo-Ulitsa Lastochkina-Ulitsa Khalturina- Ulitsa Catherine -Ploshchad Potemkintsev Time: from one to one and a half hours, this does not include visits to the museums. This route takes us around a smaller circle which is within the larger circle of the first…