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• Using a telephone

  
  Fixed line telephoneOdesa has two different types of fixed line numbers – one type has six digits and the other has seven....

• 10 reasons to visit Odesa

  
  The following is a list submitted by Odesa’s flamboyant mayor Eduard Gurvits. Feel free to submit your own list or comment on the mayor’s take....

• Odesa Underground

  
  Beneath Odesa lies an incredible labyrinth known as the catacombs. In the early 19th Century, city developers discovered that the plentiful limestone, just meters below, was perfect for construction....

• Cosmopolitan Odessa

  
  From its founding in 1794 until the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Odesa was Eastern Europe’s melting pot....

• Driving in Odesa

  
  The condition of most roads in Ukraine is basically wretched, especially after the winter thaw. Another problem is the decrepit traffic lights....

• City Jewels

  
  If you only have time to visit one museum in Odesa, Western and Eastern Art Museum is the one. Paintings and sculptures by Michelangelo, Peter Paul Rubens, David Teniers, Sebastian del Piombo, Merisi da Caravaggio, Frans Hals and other masters are on display....

• Public transport

  
  Trams, Trolleybuses and BusesThese are favoured by schoolchildren, the working class and babushkas and dedushkas....