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Odessa Stories (Russian: Одесские рассказы, romanized: Odesskiye rasskazy), also known as Tales of Odessa, is a collection of four short stories by Isaac Babel, set in Odessa in the last days of the Russian Empire and the Russian Revolution.
Odesa [a] (also spelled Odessa) [b] is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrative centre of the Odesa Raion and Odesa Oblast, as well as a multiethnic cultural centre.
1802 – Population: 9,000. [7]1803 – Duc de Richelieu in power. 1804 – Commercial school founded. [7]1805 Odessa becomes administrative center of New Russia. [7]Theatre opens.
Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel [a] (13 July [O.S. 1 July] 1894 – 27 January 1940) was a Soviet writer, journalist, playwright, and literary translator. He is best known as the author of Red Cavalry and Odessa Stories, and has been acclaimed as "the greatest prose writer of Russian Jewry". [1]
All pages with titles beginning with Odessa; All pages with titles containing Odessa; Odesa (disambiguation) Odesza, an American musical group; The Odessa File, a 1972 novel by Frederick Forsyth; The Odessa File, a 1974 film; Odessa Stories, collection of short stories by Isaac Babel; Little Odessa, a 1995 film directed by James Gray
Maurice Friedberg, "How Things Were Done in Odesa: Cultural and Intellectual Pursuits in a Soviet City" (1991) ISBN 0-8133-7987-3 (The book is about the life and culture of Odesa of the Soviet era. Its title is an allusion to a Babel's short story "How Things Were Done in Odesa" from The Odesa Tales )
There are 19 populated places in Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, that have been officially granted city status (Ukrainian: місто, romanized: misto) by the Verkhovna Rada, the country's parliament. [2] Settlements with more than 10,000 people are eligible for city status, although the status is typically also granted to settlements of historical or ...
It has also caused tensions that, beginning in 1821, triggered a series of violent events. The historic centre of Odesa is a grid system of spacious tree-lined streets divided into two rectangular blocks, the direction of which conformed to the orientation of two deep ravines cutting through the Odesa high plateau perpendicular to the sea.