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Go sightseeing to Odessa
Museums, historical places
of Odessa city. Old city
Odessa Apartments
in historical part of Odessa
city. Book apartment in
Odessa Ukraine. Good rate
| Sights
of Odessa |
Sights of Odessa
Monument to Richelieu / The
Potemkin Stairs / Don Josef de Ribas
/ Primorsky Boulevard
/ Monument to A. Pushkin / Monument
to Vorontsov / Colonnade of the Vorontsov
Palace / Opera
and Ballet Theatre / City Hall / Odessa
Sea Port / Catacombs / Museums:
Archeological Museum, Fine
Arts Museum, Museum of Literature,
Naval Museum, Museum
of Partisan Glory, Western and Oriental
Arts Museum
/ Old Stock Exchange / Deribasovskaya
St. / City park / Vorontsov
Palace / Beaches of Odessa / Odessa
Cathedrals & Monasteries
In the war of 1787-91, Don Josef de Ribas, a soldier of fortune born in Naples of Spanish and Irish stock and one of many adventures in Catherine's service, stormed the fortress of Yeny-Dunai at Khadzhibei. Catherine the Great apparently considered making the port of Ochakov, near the mouth of the Boh river, the effective capital of Novorossiya. But Ochakov lacked a good natural harbour. On the other hand, de Ribas and a close collaborator, a Dutch engineer named Franz de Volan, recommended Khadzhibei as the site of the region's principal port. Its harbour was deep and nearly ice-free. Breakwaters, on the model of those found at Naples, Livorno and Ancona, could be cheaply constructed and would render the harbour safe even for large fleets.
