The Potemkin Steps
ПОТЕМКИНСКАЯ ЛЕСТНИЦА (pa-tyom-keen-ska-ja les-nee-tsa)
The Potemkin Steps are probably one of the best known symbols of Odessa, thanks to Sergei Eisenstein?s 1925 silent film The Battleship Potemkin. The steps leading from Primorsky Boulevard down to the sea port are considered to be the formal entrance into the city from the direction of the sea. The original 200 steps were designed in 1825 by F. Boffo, St. Petersburg architects Avraam I. Melnikov and Pot'e. In 1933 the Steps were reconstructed, and 8 steps were lost, leaving 192 of them ? a good challenge if you?re walking from the sea port back to the city center!

Duke de Richelieu Monument
ПАМЯТНИК ДЮКУ (paa-myat-neek dyu-koo)
At the top of the Steps there is a monument depicting the Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, a French nobleman who became Odessa's first governor. The Roman-toga figure was designed by the Russian sculptor, Ivan Martos (1754-1835). The statue was cast in bronze by Yefimov and unveiled in 1826. It is the first monument erected in the city

Odessa City Hall
ДУМА (doo-mah)
The building which houses the Odessa City Hall is situated at the beginning of the Primorskiy Boulevard. Before it was a Stock Exchange Building, which with the time gave place to the City Council and Odessa Mayor. Every half-hour the clock above the entrance chimes the melody Odessa My Town ? the same tune as you can hear at the Odessa Train Station, greeting incoming trains.

Odessa Philharmonic
ФИЛАРМОНИЯ (fee-lar-mo-nee-ja)
Odessa Philharmonic is situated in the building of the former Odessa Stock Exchange (and it gives a reason for a lot of jokes about the acoustic abilities of the building). The building was opened in 1899, designed by famous Odessa architect of Italian origin Mario Bernardazzi. The hall is the fine example of the Venetian Gothic style, and besides the Philharmonic itself contains a famous luxurious restaurant and night club called Bernardazzi.

Vorontsov Palace
ВОРОНЦОВСКИЙ ДВОРЕЦ (vo-ron-tsov-skij dva-rets)
The Vorontsov?s Palace is a 19th century palace and colonnade at the end of Primosky Boulevard, build between 1827 and 1930 by the Sardinian architect Franz Karlowicz Boffor for Prince Mikhail Vorontsov, one of the governor-generals of the Odessa region. A real architectural masterpiece, the Vorontsovskiy Palace now contains only the front part of the original structure, but still looks amazing and is one of the most favorite places for all tourists to take pictures at. If you take a guided tour, ask your guide to take you inside the building ? you won?t be disappointed!

Deribasovskaya Street
ДЕРИБАСОВСКАЯ УЛИЦА (de-ree-ba-sov-ska-ja oo-lee-tsa)
Deribasovskaya Street is a main and most famous street in Odessa. It?s a pedestrian walk way in the heart of the city, named after Joseph de Ribas, who helped building the city, and lived on this street.
Next to the street is Odessa's first park called ГОРСАД (ghor-sad), which was built shortly after the foundation of the city in 1803 by the De Ribas brothers, Joseph and Felix. This park has a fountain, bandstand, and several monuments, including a sculpture of a lion and lioness with her cubs, a chair commemorating the famous book "The Twelve Chairs", two monuments to Leonid Osipovich Utyosov (a sculpture and also a phone which plays his music), and a monument to Sergey Utochkin, a famous pilot.
The street is the most popular pedestrian walkway in the city; full of little cozy street café and great restaurants.

Odessa Catacombs
КАТАКОМБЫ (ka-ta-kom-by)
The Odessa Catacombs is a real labyrinth under the city. About 2,500 km long, the Catacombs used to be the former stone mined, where the building stones were obtained. These abandoned mines were later used and broadened by local smugglers, creating a gigantic complicated labyrinth of underground tunnels, so long and complex that even the city government still doesn?t have a proper map of it. They are a now a great attraction for extreme tourists. Such tours, however, are not officially sanctioned and are dangerous because the layout of the catacombs has not been fully mapped and the tunnels themselves are unsafe. If you don?t want to take a risk, take one of the legal excursions ? they won?t take you far in, but at least you can be sure that you won?t get lost forever. By the way, the catacombs are a primary reason why a subway system was never built in Odessa.

Arcadia Beach
АРКАДИЯ (ar-kaa-dee-ja)
Arcadia Beach is the most famous beach in Odessa, and the center of Odessa summer night life. The beach was named after a mountainous district in Greece, known as the home of pastoral villagers. Choosing this name for the beach, the founders of Odessa apparently hoped that it would help make the place a success as a holiday resort. And it worked - today Arcadia is the most popular beach, health resort, and summer nightspot in Odessa. Its nightclubs are open from May through September, and are Odessa's primary nightlife during that time.

Odessa Dolphin Center
ДЕЛЬФИНАРИЙ (del-fee-na-reej)
Odessa Dolphin Center is open all-year-round, providing open area performances in the summer and indoor shows during the winter. Different shows involve dolphins, sea lions and human acrobats, and are a great fun for both children and adults. By the way, after the show you can take a picture with one of the dolphins or even jump to the swimming pool with them!
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