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Odesa (also spelled Odessa) [ a ] 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.
Odesa Oblast (Ukrainian: Одеська область, romanized: Odeska oblast), also referred to as Odeshchyna (Одещина), is an oblast (province) of southwestern Ukraine, located along the northern coast of the Black Sea. Its administrative centre is the city of Odesa. Population: 2,351,382 (2022 estimate).[3]
Before July 2020, Odesa Oblast was subdivided into 31 regions: 26 districts (raions) and 5 city municipalities (mis'krada or misto), officially known as territories governed by city councils. [3] Cities under the oblast's jurisdiction: Odesa (Одеса), the administrative center of the oblast. Balta Municipality.
Topographic map of Ukraine, with borders, cities and towns. Ukraine is the second-largest European country, after Russia, and the largest country entirely in Europe. Lying between latitudes 44° and 53° N, and longitudes 22° and 41° E., it is mostly in the East European Plain.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Odessa, Ukraine ... Map of Odesa region, 1809. Odesa, 1830s. Odesa, 1850s. Port Practique, Odessa, ca.1890s.
The Odesa catacombs are a labyrinth -like network of tunnels (subterranean cavities) located under the city of Odesa and its outskirts in Ukraine, that are mostly (over 90%) the result of stone mining, particularly coquina. [1] The system of Odesa Catacombs consists of a network of basements, bunkers, drainage tunnels and storm drains as well ...
Siege of Odessa. The siege of Odessa, known to the Soviets as the defence of Odessa, lasted from 8 August until 16 October 1941, during the early phase of Operation Barbarossa, the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. Odessa was a port on the Black Sea in the Ukrainian SSR. On 22 June 1941, the Axis powers invaded the Soviet ...
Chornomorsk (Ukrainian: Чорноморськ, pronounced [t͡ʃornoˈmɔrsʲk] ⓘ), formerly Illichivsk (Ukrainian: Іллічівськ), is a city in Odesa Raion, Odesa Oblast, south-western Ukraine, dependent on the Port of Chornomorsk. It hosts the administration of Chornomorsk urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. [ 2 ]