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  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Odessa
Odessa's growth was interrupted by the Crimean War of 1853–1856, during which it was bombarded by British and French naval forces.
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.
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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  Odessa
Odessa was officially founded in 1794 as a Russian naval fortress on lands annexed from Turkey during the Treaty of Jassy in 1792.
The weather in Odessa is mild and dry with average temperatures in January of -2 C (29 F), and July of 22 C (73 F).
Odessa is well-known as the capital of humor, probably due to the great variety of people and her southern location on the Black Sea.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/od/Odessa.html   (816 words)

  
 Odessa Massacre - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Odessa Massacre was the extermination of Jews and Communists in Odessa during the autumn of 1941.
In particular, there are claims that the 100:1 and 200:1 avenge after the blowing of the former KGB building in Odessa, where the command of two Romanian divisions was situated, existed only on paper.
Mindla had refused to leave Odessa when her daughter and son-in-law wanted to leave Odessa with their grand-daughter (at the same time as the doomed Flagship Lenin was to depart).
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Odessa_Massacre   (857 words)

  
 Odessa, Texas
Odessa was officially founded in 1794 as a Russian naval fortress on lands annexed from Turkey as a result of the Treaty of Iasi in 1792.
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 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.
www.creekin.net /c7172-n249-odessa-texas.html   (1400 words)

  
 :: 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.
Odessa is the fifth-largest city in Ukraine and its most important trading city.
Odessa's early growth owed much to the work of the Duc de Richelieu, who served as the city's governor between 1803–1814.
www.bestofukraine.com /odessa.htm   (1318 words)

  
 OdessaGate Tourist Services. Affordable & Hassle-free Accommodation in Odessa, Ukraine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The massacre in the port, the overpass fire and other disgraceful goings-on were arranged by the thugs, who didn't use the stairs, but made their way there along the Primorskaya street, mainly from the side of Peresyp.
But in Odessa the peripeteias of the wedding were in details discussed by the "kings" fellow-citizens in the coaching inn of madam Bulgakova, in the Vernik's wine vault, in the Balashev's tea tavern and in the Korenblit's bath-house in Rasumovskaya street, the whole event being soon forgotten.
Odessa appeared in the wild Black Sea side steppes at the hack of the country, but then, in a regal manner occupied the third place among the cities of the large empire, having to some extend got ahead of the capitals.
www.odessagate.com /info/odessa_sightseeing.html   (5084 words)

  
 Odessa, Ukraine  -  Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Odesa or Odessa (Ukraine), city, south central Ukraine, capital of Odesa Oblast.
Located on the Black Sea, the city is the chief trade and fishing port of the country, its harbor kept open in winter by icebreakers.
They were used to shoot a massacre scene in the 1925 film Battleship Potemkin.
www.galenfrysinger.com /odessa_ukrania.htm   (322 words)

  
 USHMM Information Access
Court investigation on the massacre of Jews in the Golta district of Transnistria.
Investigation of the officers accused of the massacres of Ghidighici and Odessa.
Massacre of 18 Gypsies in Salonata, Northern Transylvania, by Hungarian gendarmes.
www.ushmm.org /uia-cgi/uia_doc/archives/xRG25004M   (11663 words)

  
 Osmanlı Tarihi Kültürü Medeniyeti Edebiyatı Sanatı
Odessa or Odesa (Ukrainian Ğ?деÑ?а, Russian Ğ?деÑ?Ñ?а, Greek Οδησσός, Turkish Hacıbey) is a Ukrainian port city on the Black Sea and the center of country's Odes'ka oblast'.
Odessa Library, like so many other landmarks in the city, was designed in Neoclassical style.
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.
www.osmanlimedeniyeti.com /wiki/Odessa_.html   (1441 words)

  
 The Romanian Jewish Community
The first lot to be massacred consisted of the sick and the disabled; after having scattered hay on the roof of the stables and in front of the entrances, they poured gasoline.
For them, the accused had chosen another site for the massacre: a ravine close to a bog in the vicinity of the camp, each area playing a specific role “ the bog, for the looting from the inmates of what they held to be most precious; the ravine, for the execution itself and incineration.
The massacre proceeded at that pace on December 22 and 23, 1941.
www.romanianjewish.org /en/cap5.html   (1571 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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.
(All listed, except for Olesha and Richter, are representatives of the city's Jewish community.) Tatiana Gutsu known as "The Painted Bird of Odessa" brought home Ukraine's first Gold Medal as an independent nation when she outscored the USA's Shannon Miller in the women's All-Around event at 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona Spain.
Zhvanetsky's and Kartsev's success in 1970s, together with Odessa's KVN team, much contributed to Odessa's established status of a "capital of Soviet humour", culminating in the annual Humorina festival, carried out on and around the April Fool's Day.
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 The mutiny, the movie, and the myth - 18 Jun 2005 - NZ Film Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
But the people of Odessa, the Ukrainian port city in whose waters and streets the events unfolded 100 years ago, have realised there is one crucial problem with the account.
The beginnings of their revolutionary spirit are swiftly crushed, however, in one of the most famous cinema scenes of all time, the massacre on the Odessa Steps.
At the centre of a baroque square, Odessa's striking granite Soviet monument to the mutineer sailors squats incongruously in the bright sunshine.
www.nzherald.co.nz /event/story.cfm?c_id=1500937&objectid=10331304   (1356 words)

  
 Fan Fotos
We had been planning this trip for about a month and a half and wanted to film the locations with a video camera but were unable to do so we used 110 film which is the most awfull choice we could have made but that is what the camera took.
Thanks to Tim Harden and his web site and to all the ppl who have contributed to it, we were able to obtain maps to all locations and read many fan storys and see lots of pics from other ppls trips.
After taking some photos we entered and had a great meal I then proceeded to take more pics of the inside and out side of the house i did take some pics of the stairs but they were to dark and turned out bad so i did not include them.
www.texaschainsawmassacre.net /FanFoto/Bogues   (600 words)

  
 Odessa massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Odessa massacre was the extermination of Jews in Odessa and surrounding towns in Transnistria during the autumn of 1941 and the winter of 1942 in a series of massacres and killings during the Holocaust by German and Romanian forces.
Odessa had a large Jewish population of approximately 180,000, or 30% of the total, before the war.
General Nicolae Macici was found guilty of the massacres, and was sentenced to death.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Odessa_massacre   (880 words)

  
 Battleship Potemkin Movie: Battleship Potemkin DVD is available from Bestprices.com
Hearing of the mutiny, the people of Odessa send supplies to express their solidarity with the crew and gather en masse to mourn a slain sailor.
In perhaps the most famous sequence in film history, the director rhymically intercuts shots of the troops marching machinelike down the Odessa steps with shots of innocent citizens being killed and wounded, in a brilliant embodiment of the director's theories of montage.
Based on the unsuccessful 1905 Russian Revolution, Sergei Eisenstein's masterpiece "Battleship Potemkin," with its massacre on the Odessa Steps sequence one of the most famous in film history, is often voted one of the ten greatest films ever made.
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 Potemkin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Nevertheless, it's worth seeing for the Odessa Steps sequence, for the brilliance of Eisenstein's montages and his orchestration of events.
Those on "hunger strike" face punishment, and in an altercation with officers a sailor is killed.
In Odessa, where they have anchored, villagers mourn with the sailors.
www.shadowdark.org /webstore/viewproduct.php?asin=B00004SGIS   (404 words)

  
 Odessa Massacre
Odessa Massacre is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
Odessa Massacre: Encyclopedia II - The Holocaust - Etymology and usage of the term
General Antonescu was appointed Prime minister by King Carol II in September 1940, after Romania was forced to surrender Bessarabia and northern Bukovina to the USSR (June 28, 1940), and the northern half of Transylvania to Hungary (August 30, 1940).
www.experiencefestival.com /odessa_massacre   (2195 words)

  
 The Amherst Student Online
Rather, it was Columbine High, the school forever scarred into the American consciousness by the April 20 massacre that left 15 people—14 students, including the two shooters, and a science teacher—dead.
For one night a week, 11 weeks every fall, the harsh reality of life in Odessa was lost in the glare of the football field’s towering lights.
The Odessa community rallied behind a group of 16 and 17-year-old boys, and, in those fleeting moments, for three hours on a fall Friday night, football made that part of Odessa the one thing it could never otherwise be—a unified community.
www.amherst.edu /~astudent/1999-2000/issue011/sports/02.shtml   (631 words)

  
 Britain.tv Wikipedia - Einsatzgruppen
Usually these massacre sites were graves dug in advance, shallow pits, or deep ravines (including one at Babi Yar, just outside Kiev), where executioners were already waiting with orders to kill them with machine guns or pistol shots to the head.
The killers would also seize the clothing and other belongings of the victims, and some victims were forced to strip naked just before their execution.
The Einsatzgruppen kept track of many of their massacres, and one of the most famous of these official records is the Jäger Report, covering the operation of Einsatzkommando 3 over five months in Lithuania.
www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Einsatzgruppen   (1807 words)

  
 City Breaks in Odessa, Ukraine
Further along the sea front is the picturesque terrace of Vorontsov's Palace with its excellent view of the port and Black Sea beyond.
Beneath Odessa lies an impressive network of catacombs dug into the sandstone the city stands on.
This large hotel is located in the city centre of Odessa and although it has a four-star rating - the standard rooms are three-star.
www.regent-holidays.co.uk /odessa.html   (403 words)

  
 MoMA.org | The Collection | Sergei Eisenstein. Potemkin (Bronenosets Potemkin). 1925
Eisenstein used the events of the 1905 rebellion against czarist troops in the port of Odessa to give meaning to the Russian Revolution of 1917.
Potemkin is made up of five major sequences: the rebellion of the ship's sailors over rotten food, the mutiny on the quarterdeck, the display of the martyr's body on the quay, the massacre of civilians on the Odessa steps, and the triumphant sailing of the battleship to meet the fleet.
One of the most memorable shots, comprising the Odessa steps sequence, for example, captures the horror of the massacre in a close-up of a woman screaming after she has been wounded by the advancing soldiers.
www.moma.org /collection/browse_results.php?object_id=89286   (582 words)

  
 BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN:
He includes atrocities, the Odessa steps massacre among them, but his primary objective, as seen through his use of time, is to celebrate the power of the mutineers.
Odessa, less than thirty miles away, was the logical destination to procure food and supplies.
But in Odessa, in the hands of the authorities and even in its disabled condition, she could prevent the Potemkin from using the town as a base and a source of supply.
users.ju.edu /jclarke/is300potemkin.htm   (10096 words)

  
 Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein
James Goodwin claims that Eisenstein "confused the historical record....The massacre on the Odessa Steps was often attributed by critics to Eisenstein's creation and he did little to correct that impression."(5) David Bordwell says that the film "takes great liberties" with historical fact.
Also, when the Cossacks start their massacre, that is the first time that we have see them, and there are no shots from their perspective.
He certainly includes atrocities, the Odessa steps massacre among them, but his primary objective, as seen through his use of time, is to celebrate the power of the mutineers.
www.carleton.edu /curricular/MEDA/classes/media110/Severson/essay.htm   (1742 words)

  
 Lionel Richard, Eisenstein's masterpiece at 80
The crew killed or arrested their officers and those of the torpedo boat, and headed for Odessa, whose workers were in revolt.
After all, some of the most striking scenes in the film were entirely the fruit of his imagination—not least the shots of a baby in its pram bouncing down the Richelieu steps in Odessa in what is widely acknowledged as one of the finest sequences in cinema history.
In fact, much as the Potemkin mutiny was just one episode in an uprising taking place across Russia, the Odessa steps massacre in the film was a condensation of scenes of tsarist repression that took place all over Odessa, killing 5,000-6,000 people.
www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/63/341.html   (1761 words)

  
 Holocaust Revealed
The detachment looted in Tighina and Tiraspol, and was involved in the massacre in Odessa.
The file of the Odessa cases was given to me personally by Grigore Petrovici, and that of the massacre in Kishinev by Gheorghe Cristescu-Gica.
I must add that during the days of the massacre the Jewish citizens were collected from their homes by the police, and escorted to the Central Police Station with the help of the garrison troops led by their commanders.
www.logon.org /_domain/holocaustrevealed.org/Romania/Matatias/Iasi4.htm   (7233 words)

  
 The Holocaust - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Though there were armed resistance attempts in the ghettos in 1943, such as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Białystok Ghetto Uprising, in every case they failed against the Nazi military, and the remaining Jews were either slaughtered or sent to the extermination camps.
Some of the larger massacres included 54,000 Jews killed in Bogdanovka, a Romanian concentration camp along the Bug River in Transnistria, between 21 and 31 December 1941.
Nearly 100,000 Jews were killed in occupied Odessa and over 10,000 were killed in the Iasi pogrom.
www.higiena-system.com /wiki/link-The_Holocaust   (8831 words)

  
 JTA - Breaking News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
A Ukrainian Jewish community is trying to stop construction in an area believed to be over the site of a wartime massacre.
The area is marked by two memorials commemorating Jews and Soviet prisoners of war massacred by the Nazis.
The Odessa Association of Former Prisoners of Ghettos and Concentration Camps wants to stop the new construction because, according to some witnesses, killings took place close to the proposed construction, Roman Shvartz, the leader of the group, told JTA.
jta.org /page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=2856   (141 words)

  
 AMCTV.com SHOW - The Odessa File
The follow-up to the successful "The Day of the Jackal" (1973), this is also a taut, sophisticated, and subtly shaded international espionage film.
Voight gives a superior performance as the son of a German soldier who infiltrates the network of Nazi sympathizers code-named Odessa in the early '60s.
He searches for SS monster Schell after being trained to infiltrate Odessa by Israeli experts and goaded by the haunting diary of a survivor.
www.amctv.com /show/detail?CID=2419-1-est   (72 words)

  
 Odessa, Ukraine Travel - Potemkin sailor monument - Odesa Ukraine visit odessa, visit odesa, visit Ukraine, travel to ...
A squadron of Russian warships approached Odessa with the intention to capture the battleship Potemkin.
It soon escalated into a shooting between the officers and the crew, during which Captain Golikov and most of the officers were killed, and the remaining officers were arrested.
The most famous scene from the movie is the massacre on the Primorsky (Potemkin) Stairs, where ruthless Tsarist soldiers march down a seemingly endless flight of stairs in a rhythmic, machine-like fashion, slaughtering a crowd of innocents as they attempt to flee down the stairs before the soldiers reach them.
www.2odessa.com /wiki/index.php?title=Potemkin_sailor_monument   (1075 words)

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