Odessa is a city that lives some of his life, according to its laws that allocate him from all other cities. And you feel so strong that Odessa is impossible to forget. A huge reservoir of culture, and the culture of joint, Russian-Ukrainian, lightening in the local streets.
Due to the fact that in Odessa I got purely at work, I managed not to walk so much in the center and sights as I would like. But I still went through Deribasovskaya. The feeling that the trip did not leave. This place is firmly connected in my consciousness with the heroes like the Osta Bender. It is by such streets that they must walk. Here or in the city garden. In these places there are a large number of interesting and unusual monuments. Residents of Odessa have a sense of humor.
As for palaces and other buildings, that is, indeed, beautiful, but me, sophisticated by Peter by Peter, is no longer as easy to hit by the palaces and cathedrals.
As it should be made by any guest of the city, I descended on the Potemkin stairs, counting the steps, but for some reason I had to be stubbornly 190. However, I did not risk recalculating.
As the Sea Resort, Odessa did not cause me a lot of pleasant impressions. There must be to come back to see the city, coming to culture, and not just sunbathe in the sun.
In general, everything in Odessa seemed to me somewhat frozen from the middle of the 20th century. The port city from the Soviet cinema, although there is enough modern buildings. Perhaps this is for the reason that because of the established stereotype I did not perceive it differently. In connection with the last unrest in Ukraine, it becomes very sad that this part of our common Russian-Ukrainian culture we can lose.