Click here to read an encyclopaedic article about Odessa.
Odessa-mama is an excellent site, with yet more links.
A Geographic Note
The city of Odessa is situated on the north coast of the Black Sea. It
currently belongs to the Ukraine.
Some Peculiar Facts
- The city is "properly" planned, so that, from above, it looks like a
chessboard.
- The Potemkin Steps were built so that from the top of the steps:
1) only the flights are seen, and 2) the two vertical barriers, one
on each side of the steps, seem parallel.
- The interior design of the Opera House (or the Opera Theatre) required
thin gold sheets and the sharp skills of specially trained personnel. The
building periodically sank and was restored, though not to full height.
Some famous people born in Odessa
- Vladimir Arnol'd
- Isaak Babel
-
Emil Gilels
- Aleksandr Glikberg (better known under his pen name, Sasha Cherny)
- George Gamow
- Il'ja Il'f
- Valentin Kataev
- David Milman (Attn.: Mathematicians. This is a co-author of the Krein-Mliman theorem.)
- David Oistrakh
- Evgenij Petrov
- Pavel Urysohn
- Leonid Utesov
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