Odesa is a city young by the standards of the world—230 years old as of this writing. But her story stretches far beyond the day Catherine the Great decided to plant a port on these shores.
Dozens of perfectly preserved ancient shipwrecks have been found at the bottom of the Black Sea, a total of 60 wrecks dating back as far as 2,500 years, including galleys from the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman empires.
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.
Mick O'Neills isn't just another pub on Deribasovskaya Street — it's a little slice of Ireland woven into Odesa since 1997.
