While Odessa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast province, the city is the capital of the Odessa City Municipality. However, Odessa is a city of oblast subordinance, thus being subject directly to the oblast authorities rather to the Odessa City Municipality housed in the city itself.
The territory of Odessa is divided into four administrative raions (districts):
Schatkoskaya { Russian - Watkockaya } Odessa Excursions
Natalia Evanovna - Tour Organizer A delightful lady who speaks Russian and a few words in English. Tour guides speak Russian only.
You can usually find her,loud speaker in hand at the promenade-sidewalk-steps in front of the Train station.
Telephone Number : Odessa,tel. Office: from Outside the Ukraine : 011-(0482)45-89-47
Mobile : 011-(8067) 484-00-85
A. The City Tour of Odessa is memorable and covers all of the best locations: Potemkin Steps, Opera House, Beaches,Sanatoriums,etc. Takes about 2-3 hr.
The Vorontsov's Palace (Russian: Воронцовский дворец, Ukrainian: Воронцовський палац) is a 19th century palace and colonnade in Odessa, Ukraine, at the end of the Primorsky Boulevard pedestrian walkway. The buildings were built between 1827 to 1830 by the Sardinian architect Franz Karlowicz Boffo for Prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov, one of the governor-generals of the Odessa region. Vorontsov chose to build his city palace on the spot where the former governor general Richelieu's humble house had once stood. Vorontsov was so impressed with Boffo's work, that he contracted Boffo to design the Potemkin Stairs. This is a photograph of the colonnade overlooking the harbor next to
Vorontsov's Palace.
The 142-metre-long Potemkin Stairs (constructed 1837–1841), made famous by Sergei Eisenstein in his movie The Battleship Potemkin (1925).
B. The Catacombs Tour of outside of Odessa is memorable and covers about 2 miles of the 580 miles of tunnels and the above ground Museum.
Takes about 4 hours with travel by bus. Tour Guide : Maria Skadeevalova -Speaks Russian and Ukrainian.
Telephone: 011-8(050)336-44-48 and 011-380(097)345-21-34
Most of the city's 19th century houses were built of limestone mined nearby. Abandoned mines were later used and broadened by local smugglers. This created a gigantic complicated labyrinth of underground tunnels beneath Odessa, known as "catacombs". They were used during the Great War (World War II) to evade the Nazis. 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. The tunnels are a primary reason why a subway system was never built in Odessa.
C. Dolphinnairee
Location: On Beach down the hill from Taras Schevshenko Park next to the Nemo Hotel
Telephone: 011-8(050)497-67-64, 011-8(068)821-000-9
011-380(048)787-20-10 and 011-8(066)336-22-17
This is a delightful astounding performance with 2 trainers, 4 Sea Lions and 4 Dolphins-
the animals sing, dance by themselves and with the trainers. This is remarkable. I will have videos of these performances posted on YouTube.com and MySpace.com at
http://www.youtube.com/user/Willprospector with links from and to this location.
D. Bilkovo-Pelikan-Tour : Pelican Danube River Delta Tour Bordering Ukraine and Rumania
Adress: Street Gogolya 8, Odessa, Ukraine 65082
Telephone Numbers: 011-38(048)777-12-05 and 011-38(0482)37-54-10
Mobile: 011-38(067)290-23-44
Price: $37 or 185 Hygrivnia
Email: pelikan-delta@paco.net
