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Introducing Odesa

Odesa is a city straight from literature – an energetic, decadent boomtown. Its famous Potemkin Steps sweep down to the Black Sea and Ukraine’s biggest commercial port. Behind them, a cosmopolitan cast of characters makes merry among pastel neoclassical buildings lining a geometrical grid of leafy streets.

Immigrants from all over Europe were invited to make their fortune here when Odesa was founded in the late 18th century by Russia’s Catherine the Great. These new inhabitants gave Russia’s southern window on the world a singular, subversive nature.

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Neo-Byzantine Pantelejmonovska Church.
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Neo-Byzantine Pantelejmonovska Church.

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