Depaldo stone stairs

Depaldo Stone Stairs ( _ru. Депальдовская лестница, also "Каменная лестница") was constructed in 1823 with the money of Taganrog's Greek merchant Gerasim Depaldo at the crossroads of "Greek Street" and "Depaldo Street" (now "Turgenevskaya Street") in Taganrog. The stairway begins up on the hill in the downtown and goes down ending near Azov seashore ("Pushkinskaya Quay").

In Imperial Russia it was the famous stairs in South Russia, similar to Potemkin Stairs in Odessa.

In World War II, the Old Depaldo Stone Stairway was heavily damaged, but stayed one of the major tourist attractions of Taganrog. In 1970s it was reconstructed, but not finished. The new major reconstruction was made in 2005.

At the top of Depaldo stone stairs on "Grecheskaya Street" stands a Sundial (1833).

Views of Depaldo stone stairs