Odessa Photos
Enjoy our Odessa photo album including local photographs and pictures of Odessa Ukraine tourist attractions. If you have Odessa photographs of your own, feel free to contribute your pics to our album.
Odessa photographs
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Opera and Ballet Theater Odessa Opera Theater got its start in 1810, while the current National Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet, with its Italian Baroque facade, opened for its first performance in 1887. |
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Duc de Richelieu Statue Standing at the top of the Potemkin Stairs is a statue of Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis (Duc de Richelieu), influential French Nobleman and Odessa's first governor within the Russian Empire. Under his administration Odessa greatly increased in importance and became the empire's third largest city. |
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Potemkin Stairs Perhaps the city's most well known landmark, the Potemkin Stairs are considered the formal entrance to Odessa from the direction of the Black Sea. The top step is 12.5m (41 ft) wide, while the lowest step is 21.7m (70.8 ft) wide, giving the illusion of greater length. |
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Odessa Hotel, Black Sea Photo of Odessa Hotel and Passenger Sea Terminal from the top of Potemkin Stairs. |
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Deribasovsky Street Photo down Deribasovskaya Ulitsa, a cobblestone pedestrian street lined with cafes, restaurants and bars. |
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Musical Comedy Theater The theater of musical comedy, which got its start in Lviv in 1947, is now based in the theater named in honor of great operetta actor Mikhail Vodianoy. Built in 1981, with seating for 1300 people, the theater is one of the most modern, technically equipped theaters in Odessa. |
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St. Panteleimon Church Photo of church of the Monastery of St Panteleimon which was consecrated in 1895. Under Soviet rule it was also used as a planetarium between 1961 and 1991. |
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Primorsky Boulevard A tree-lined promenade that follows the contours of cliffs that overlook the Black Sea. Residents and visitors come here to stroll and enjoy views of the Odessa Sea Port. |
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Odessa City Duma The Odessa City Council, once home to the city's first stock exchange, is found at the south end of Primorsky Boulevard. |
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Nikolaev Church The Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral, located on Sobornaya Ploshad, is Odessa's largest Orthodox Church (50m wide and over 100m long). |
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Odessa Train Station |
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Archaeological Museum One of many examples of Neoclassical architecture found in Odessa, Ukraine. |
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Odessa Catacombs Photo from Catacombs and Museum of Partisan Glory. The catacombs, mined for limestone blocks used to build Odessa, are a labyrinth of tunnels snaking roughly 2500km underground. During World War II they were a hideout for Soviet partisans. |
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Seaside in Odessa, Ukraine Photo of popular recreation spot on Odessa's Black Sea shore. While this picture is taken in the fall, summertime sees large crowds of beach goers, recreators and evening revelers. |
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Odessa Harbor The Port of Odessa is built within artificially created break waters with the entrance marked by the lighthouse seen in the photo. |
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Black Sea Port, Odessa Odessa is home to two sea ports, the Odessa Port seen in the photo, as well as the Yuzhny oil terminal in the city's suburbs. |
