Odessa

Памятник основателю Одессы А.Э. Ришелье.

Caledonia ! Odessa -Mama !

Odessa - a special city in the world.

The city that gave the world the most cheerful and resourceful citizens, he is famous for its great history and the title Hero City . Odessa - a city - worker, a port city and resort city.

Odessa is situated on the Black Sea , as the historical center of New Russia and the largest port in Ukraine.

In this land once was located the ancient Greek colony .It has long belonged to the various nomadic tribes : Pechenegs and Polovtsy, and the conquerors of the Golden Horde, the Crimean Khanate, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Ottoman Empire.

In the fourteenth century to the future site of Odessa was Hadzhibey settlement founded by the great Lithuanian prince Vitovt . From 1529 to 1794.settlement in the possession of the Ottoman Empire.

During the bloody wars with the Crimean Khanate and the Ottoman Empire gradually annexed Russia these territories. Previously, there was a so-called Wild Field - underdeveloped steppe, and in the central part - the land of Cossacks , who had a special status.Since the end of XVIII century under the leadership of Prince Potemkin, a mass development of the New Russia . At this time, new cities are laid LOTS , Mykolaiv, Kherson, Elizavetgrad , Novorossiysk , Sevastopol, Simferopol.

May 27, 1794 by decree of Catherine II founded Hadzhibey Russian city and the port of Odessa .

It was organized by the relocation of its own people and foreigners to enter new territories. With the support of the state are German , Bulgarian, Hebrew , Greek and Serbian agricultural colony.

Thanks to the seaport and rapidly growing trade in grain, in the XIX century, Odessa has become one of the most important trade centers in the country - the fourth largest city in the Russian Empire ( after St. Petersburg , Moscow and Warsaw), while formally remaining district center in the province of Kherson .

For Military Merit during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, Odessa was awarded the title Hero City .

Today, Odessa - the biggest sea port , transporting , among other things grains, sugar , coal , petroleum , cement, metals , jute, wood products engineering industries.

This is the largest in Eastern Europe, wholesale clothing market .

The city is the famous resort. There are a lot of mud - balneotherapy , balneology -climatic and climatic seaside resorts of national significance.

Useful information.

Emergency Services .

Fire 101.

Police 102.

Ambulance 103.

Odessa office of a rapid response to emergency situations in 1577 .

gas emergency service 104.

Gorspravka 1544.

1559.

Bus 1504.

721-63-54 .

Airport 1506.

Seaport 729-38-03 .

729-42-75 .

Train Station: 1505.

727-42-42 .

1583.

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