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  Odessa, Ukraine Travel - 2odessa.com - Odesa Ukraine visit odessa, visit odesa, visit Ukraine, travel to Ukraine ...
Odessa, Ukraine is a city in the southwestern Ukraine, major port on the Black Sea and the administrative center of country's Odessa Oblast (province).
The population of Odessa in 2004 was 1,012,500.
Odessa is referred to as the "Pearl of the Black Sea" it is the third largest city in Ukraine, the largest city along the Black Sea, and the most important city of Ukraine for trade.
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 OLSC: Odessa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Odessa region, located in the southern part of Ukraine with exit to the Black Sea and the Danube, has long been a marine gate to Europe and Asia.
The area of the 'Odessa oblast' (Odessa region) is the largest in Ukraine, with a total area of 33,300 sq.
Odessa region consists of 26 districts; 19 cities, of which 7 are governed by the regional administration and 12 by district municipalities; 33 towns and 1,138 villages.
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 OLSC: Odessa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Odessa region, located in the southern part of Ukraine with exit to the Black Sea and the Danube, has long been a marine gate to Europe and Asia.
The area of the 'Odessa oblast' (Odessa region) is the largest in Ukraine, with a total area of 33,300 sq.
Odessa region consists of 26 districts; 19 cities, of which 7 are governed by the regional administration and 12 by district municipalities; 33 towns and 1,138 villages.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Odessa
It is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast (province), and is designated as its own separate raion (district) within the oblast.
Odessa's growth was interrupted by the Crimean War of 1853–1856, during which it was bombarded by British and French naval forces.
Odessa is situated (Google Map) on terraced hills overlooking a small harbor, approximately 31 km (19 mi.) north of the estuary of the Dniester river and some 443 km (275 mi) south of the Ukrainian capital Kiev.
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 AMBASSADE D'UKRAINE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Odessa oblast is located in the outmost South-West of Ukraine and borders on Vinnytsya, Kirovograd, Mukolayiv oblasts, on land and sea with a number of foreign countries: Moldova Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey.
Odessa oblast is a highly developed industrial region of the country, its industry plays an important role in the structure of the national economy of Ukraine.
Odessa oblast is covered by a developed network of highways, which connect the oblast center (Odessa) with the rayons centers and other regions of the oblast and Ukraine.
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 Odesa Oblast - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Odesa (Odessa) Oblast is bounded by Vinnytsya and...
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 Odesa (Odessa) Ukraine: Travel, Sightseeing, and Photos
Odessa's climate is quite a bit drier and milder than in Kiev.
Odessa is well-known for its busy nightlife, its cultural events, its beaches and recreation opportunities.
Odessa's nightlife, including stylish restaurants, bars, and cafes, as well as numerous nightclubs and discotheques, is mostly to be found in the historical center around Deribasovskaya Street, and also in Arcadia.
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 Odessa travel guide
It is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast (province), and is designated as its own separate raion (district) within the oblast.
From 1819 – 1858 Odessa was a free port (porto franco).
Odessa's oil- and chemical-processing facilities are connected to Russia 's and EU 's respective networks by strategic pipelines.
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 Odessa Facts & Figures
The Odessa region is located in the far southwest of Ukraine and borders on the Vinnytsia, Kirovograd, Mykolaiv regions and on foreign countries such as the Republic of Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey on land and sea.
The Odessa port and other ports of the region are distributed in the junction of intensive marine and river transport international relations and this determines its considerable transport distribution potential.
In the early 20th century Odessa was characterized by the dense population under relatively sparse network of urban and rural settlements.
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 Odessa Ukraine city travel tips, attractions, history. - UkraineTrek.com
City of Odessa is a seaport and administrative centre of Odessa oblast, southwestern Ukraine.
Odessa residents are known to be hospitable, warm-hearted, independent, proud - and to possess a sophisticated sense of humor.
Odessa was allowed to breathe politically because of its advantageous geographical location, convenient sheltered inlet, fertile fl soil and eclectic mix of population.
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 Odessa Information, Odessa City Guide
Odessa is the fourth largest city in Ukraine.
Odessa Airport is the main gateway to the city.
City Garden, Potemkin Steps-the main landmark of the city, the Odessa Port, The Cannon, Duke de Richelieu monument and the City Zoo are the charming sights in the city.
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 Odessa Ukraine oblast overview, economy. - UkraineTrek.com
Odessa oblast is located in the far southwest of the Ukraine and borders on the Vinnytsia, Kirovograd, Nikolaev regions and on foreign countries such as the Republic of Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey on land and sea.
Odessa oblast occupies the territory of the north western Black Sea Area from the bed of the Danube river to Tiligulian estuary (the sea cost within the limits of Odessa oblast stretches for 300 km and northwards from the sea for 200-250 km).
Odessa oblast coastal part lies in the recreation zone of the northwestern part of the Black Sea area, being distributed in the vicinity of the large industrial districts.
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 Odessa Oblast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The oblast's population (as of 2004) is 2.4 million people, nearly 40% of whom live in the city of Odessa.
The Odessa Oblast is administratively subdivided into 26 raions (districts), as well as 7 cities (municipalities) which are directly subordinate to the oblast government: Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Illichivsk, Izmail, Kotovsk, Teplodar, Yuzhne, and the administrative center of the oblast, Odessa.
The name of each oblast is a relative adjective, formed by adding a feminine suffix to the name of respective center city: Odessa is the center of the Odes’ka oblast’ (Odessa Oblast).
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 :: Best of Ukraine :: Odessa (Odesa) - the beautiful port city of Ukraine
Odessa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast (province) and a major port on the Black Sea.
From 1819–1858 Odessa was a free port (porto franco).
Odessa is also a Ukrainian naval base and home to a fishing fleet.
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 European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Odessa and S. Ukraine reported higher rates of HIV diseases than in the rest of the country.
Analysis of TB and HIV incidence data in Odessa oblast from 1962 to 2002.
In 1962, the incidence of TB in the Odessa region was 178 cases per 100 000 cases, but this declined to 73.0, 42.0 and 41.6 cases per 100 000 in 1972, 1982 and 1992 respectively rising to 80.4 in 2002.
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 Family Hometown's in Europe
Odessa is particularly important because of the rapid and constant growth of the Jewish population and its economic activity, the "Western" character of its cultural life, the social and political involvement of the Jewish public and the Hebrew literary center which emerged there.
At the beginning of the 20th century, 700f the banks of Odessa were administered by Jews and 406f the industrialists were Jews.
Odessa was the first community in Russia to be directed by "maskilim, " who retained control over its administration throughout its existance.
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 Odessa Oblast, Odesa Oblast, Odeska Oblast, Odesskaya Oblast - Genealogy - Ukraine WorldGenWeb
Odessa Oblast, Odesa Oblast, Odeska Oblast, Odesskaya Oblast - Genealogy - Ukraine WorldGenWeb
Odessa Oblast is an administrative subdivision of Ukraine that takes in the Black Sea coastline from the mouth of the Danube to Tiligal Liman, and includes the port city of Odesa and the surrounding countryside.
Odessa Oblast is divided into 26 municipalities, called Rayons.
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 Maps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The western portion of the former Province of Kherson, the Odessa District is bordered by the Dniester River on the west, the Nikolayev Oblast on the east, and the Black Sea on the south.
The map depicts the German settlements in the Dnepropetrovsk Oblast formerly the northern portion of the Province of Ekaterinoslav and includes the German villages in the western portion of the Kharkov Oblast.
Map of the German settlements in the Stalino Oblast formerly the eastern portion of Ekaterinoslav Province and the western portion of the Don District (Territory of the Don Cossacks) including the German villages in the eastern part of the Kharkov Oblast.
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 REGIONAL CORNER: ODESSA,UKRAINE
Odessa, Ukraine's fifth largest city, with a population of 1.1million, has been called Ukraine's "southern window to Europe." Historically, Odessa's location on the Black Sea; its proximity to Moldova, Romania, and Bulgaria; and its role as a major port have exposed it to the wider world and made it more receptive to foreign business.
Not surprisingly, the Odessa oblast, or region, attracts almost 13 percent of all foreign investment in Ukraine, and has the second-highest level of foreign investment of any region in the country after Kiev, according to the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations.
The Port of Odessa is one of Ukraine's major points for the export of chemicals and metals.
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 Document 41
When oblasts were being organized in Ukraine, I was transferred as Senior Investigator to the Office of the Odessa Oblast Prosecutor.
In February 1932 when oblasts were organized in Ukraine, Odessa became an oblast center, and space was needed to accommodate newly created oblast organizations and incoming staff.
An example demonstrating how the Odessa officials cast aside all restraint is their system of "bonus awards" for finding an "objective" leading to eviction, the "award" being some of the rooms from which others had been evicted.
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 Car Hire Odessa. Discounts Odessa Car Rentals Companies
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Odessa (Ukrainian: Îäåñà, Odesa; Russian: Îäåññà) is a city in southwestern Ukraine, a major port on the Black Sea, and the administrative centre of the country's Odessa Oblast.
Odessa is situated on terraced hills overlooking a small harbor, approximately 31 km (19 mi.) north of the estuary of the Dniester river and some 443 km (275 mi) south of the Ukrainian capital Kiev.
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 How to get to Odessa
Odessa can be reached by internal flights from Kiev and other cities within Ukraine.
Odessa is reached by main roads in its section of Ukraine.
Odessa can be reached by train from Kiev or other major cities in Ukraine.
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 Report by the Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Theo van ...
Semenov, was released from custody on 19 July 2004 pursuant to a decision of the Odessa oblast court of appeal.
On 19 July 2004, the Odessa oblast court of appeal sentenced the persons to various terms of deprivation of liberty on counts of murder, banditry, robbery, attempts on the lives of law enforcement officers, illicit trafficking in weapons, ammunition and explosives, and other serious offences.
Five employees of the Odessa remand centre, including the head of that institution, and two employees of the State penal enforcement department in Odessa oblast were subjected to disciplinary measures for the unlawful handcuffing of Mr.
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 ODESSA Articles Odessa (Ukrainian: ?????, Odesa; Ru
In the course of Russian–Turkish wars these lands were captured by Russia at the end of the 18th century.
Odessa's oil- and chemical-processing facilities are connected to Russia's and EU's respective networks by strategic pipelines.
Odessa is the city known for its humor, the most beautiful women in Ukraine, rich story of the whole nation.
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 Odessa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ivan Martos's statue of Duc de Richelieu in Odessa.
Ze'ev Jabotinsky, a Zionist leader, author, orator, soldier, and founder of the Jewish Legion in World War I, was born in Odessa.
Poet Anna Akhmatova was born in Bolshoy Fontan near Odessa.
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 RTRFoundation
Its main function was the collection of archival documents in the territory of Odessa and Odessa Guberniya (Province), control under departmental archives, responsibility for the safety of valuable materials and the researching and publication of documents.
With the beginning of World War II and German-Romanian occupation of Odessa in 1941, a major portion of the documents were evacuated to Stalingrad and later to the town of Uralsk in the West Kazakhstan Region.
One of her specialities is Jewish genealogical research and she is the author of The Jews of Odessa and Southern Ukraine: The History in Documents (end of XVIII-Beginning of XX Century) published in Odessa in 2002, jointly by the Archives and “Migdal” (Jewish Community in Odessa).
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 WWF - Dikes bulldozed in Danube Delta
The change from technocratic management of the river delta to a management and economic development that is based on the natural potentials of the system is a real challenge for the Odessa Oblast (South Ukraine).
The Odessa Oblast Water Authority also played an important role in the development of the vision.
Kichuk, Director of Odessa Oblast Water Management Department, is convinced that this new route for development of the delta needs to be followed.
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 Lighthouses of Ukraine
However, the coastline of the Black Sea was mostly under the control of the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire until it was taken by Russia during a series of wars in the second half of the 1700s.
In the west is the bight of Odessa, named for Ukraine's largest port.
This is one of Ukraine's oldest light stations, and it is the traditional landfall light for Odessa.
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