You want to talk about Odesa. Fine. Let's talk about a city that's spent a couple of centuries being told what it is, usually by people who only ever saw the reflection of their own myth-making.
If you spend any time in Odesa, sooner or later someone will tell you about the Seventh-Kilometer Market.
To millions of readers, Ostap Bender is the ultimate fictional rogue—the charming, quick-witted "Great Combinator" of Soviet literature who outsmarted the system with a flash of his white scarf and a tipped captain's hat. But behind the pages of Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov's classic novels lies a real Odesa story.
What does modern Ukrainian art even look like? It’s like asking what the internet feels like—it’s everything and nothing, all at once. You can’t pin it down, but you know it when you see it.
The man who ignited the explosion was Alexander Pushkin, recognized as one of history's greatest poets.
In 2006, the National Bank of Ukraine issued a 500-hryvnia note—at the time roughly equivalent in popular demand to a U.S. $100 bill.
The city of Odesa itself is very young, founded only in 1794, but the area itself has a much older history.
You might have heard of the famous Odesa story "Twelve Chairs" but did you hear about "Nine Doors"?