Odessa ( Одеса, Одесса ). A voyage to Odessa, Ukraine, Europe

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Its famous Potemkin Steps sweep down to the Black Sea and <a href="http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinationRedirector?atlasId=360912">Ukraine</a>’s biggest commercial port. Behind them, a cosmopolitan cast of characters makes merry among pastel neoclassical buildings<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpAqruyqrdXZl9NjuUW47TUTZtx8-tutWjcxQwNpi8wxCV-VFCp5W7knszk0coZ406hZcTUcEw5rKyiV6b9ZAADz20YeWWfaS8C9vZHaCTzVetMbXYEMV4Tztyvrh2zgNjbIJf6hwuUHk/s1600/Odesa+37.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpAqruyqrdXZl9NjuUW47TUTZtx8-tutWjcxQwNpi8wxCV-VFCp5W7knszk0coZ406hZcTUcEw5rKyiV6b9ZAADz20YeWWfaS8C9vZHaCTzVetMbXYEMV4Tztyvrh2zgNjbIJf6hwuUHk/s200/Odesa+37.jpg" width="200" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjJ-KvjOKg2EwerU3G3cl6zg4ZE3KuEvFc_q0kiXo8_sFykxCHeMGUUHh4rLwzuE_AmnhPobchlXJqXKFy3RTFLvPCx7ub9vVtuUYJl29FJZ7vbmrq_Rr4yYZ7qj9_k-AMJyRxknYcQ3k/s1600/Odesa++48.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjJ-KvjOKg2EwerU3G3cl6zg4ZE3KuEvFc_q0kiXo8_sFykxCHeMGUUHh4rLwzuE_AmnhPobchlXJqXKFy3RTFLvPCx7ub9vVtuUYJl29FJZ7vbmrq_Rr4yYZ7qj9_k-AMJyRxknYcQ3k/s200/Odesa++48.jpg" width="200" /></a>lining a geometrical grid of leafy streets. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmqNl6AIoq8jeWHKxG3tEuk1TgNhp78S8pFQzX1oPV2MjB9UkEMlp1yEDzNRWZq5indJaabyxldSzQySdSh5KgsJgIBCtdVNoPkzohXA6FVzhzOdfp9SeibvY9Ru7kRcVTjWLI1E3UO-s/s1600/Odesa+34.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmqNl6AIoq8jeWHKxG3tEuk1TgNhp78S8pFQzX1oPV2MjB9UkEMlp1yEDzNRWZq5indJaabyxldSzQySdSh5KgsJgIBCtdVNoPkzohXA6FVzhzOdfp9SeibvY9Ru7kRcVTjWLI1E3UO-s/s200/Odesa+34.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpRkMmWkX16e56FXCuoOp_PDcPq8w23MJT7JETb2hTcyy7cE-6C4hcx8L_FlhybQEXThyZ6w7emwJxcN2WHLVBCNePnjp41cKScCcGWQYn8np45F6qoX2oyE58odyvjKV4uBRQyl_eWyM/s1600/Odesa+9.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpRkMmWkX16e56FXCuoOp_PDcPq8w23MJT7JETb2hTcyy7cE-6C4hcx8L_FlhybQEXThyZ6w7emwJxcN2WHLVBCNePnjp41cKScCcGWQYn8np45F6qoX2oyE58odyvjKV4uBRQyl_eWyM/s200/Odesa+9.jpg" width="200" /></a>Immigrants from all over <a href="http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinationRedirector?atlasId=358537">Europe</a> were invited to make their fortune here when Odesa was founded in the late 18th century by <a href="http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinationRedirector?atlasId=360415">Russia</a>’s Catherine the Great. These new inhabitants gave <a href="http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinationRedirector?atlasId=360415">Russia</a>’s southern window on the world a singular, subversive nature. 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True, the city’s appearance grows tattier as you head south past half-empty sanatoriums towards its beachside nightclubs. However, this East–West crossroads makes up for that with sheer panache. Local writer Issac Babel claimed Odesa had ‘more charm than any city in the Russian Empire’ and that’s probably still true in modern-day <a href="http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinationRedirector?atlasId=360912">Ukraine</a>. 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