Odessa City Hall

The Odessa City Hall

Odessa City Hall is the city hall in Odessa, Ukraine. It occupies the Neoclassical building on Seaside Boulevard, built to a design by Francesco Boffo and Gregorio Toricelli in 1828-34. In front of the hall is a monument of Alexander Pushkin who spent 13 months in Odessa. ^[1]

Every half-hour, the clock above the entrance chimes the melody "Odessa my town" (the same tune greeting incoming trains at the Odessa Train Station). This is from the operetta "White Acacia" by the Soviet composer Isaac Dunayevsky.^[2]

In the building of modern Odessa City Hall was Stock exchnage in the past. Odessa City Hall is located on the cross of Primorskiy Boulevard, Chaikovskogo Lane and Pushkinskaya Street. In front of Odessa City Hall building is a small square, called “Dumaskaya” with a monument to Pushkin, canon extracted from French Fregate "Tiger" sank in battle with Russian troups during the Crimean War.

References

1. ^ "Odessa Ukraine Attractions and City History". odessaapts.com. Archived from the original on 2008-07-22. http://web.archive.org/web/20080722091641/http://www.odessaapts.com/attractions.asp. Retrieved 2008-10-01. 
2. ^ Kononova, G. (1984). Odessa: A Guide. Moscow: Raduga Publishers. http://www.2odessa.com/wiki/index.php?title=Odessa_a_guide#58.  p. 58-61.

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