Odessa (ukr)

Odessa

Odessa ranks 142nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Portland, Oregon, Denver, and Chennai. Memorable people born in Odessa include Anna Akhmatova, George Gamow, and Ze'ev Jabotinsky. Memorable people who died in Odessa include Aleksandr Lyapunov, Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel, and Mendele Mocher Sforim. Odessa has been the birth place of many writers, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and mathematicians. Odessa is located in Ukraine.

Odesa is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrative centre of the Odesa Raion and Odesa Oblast, as well as a multiethnic cultural centre. As of January 2021, Odesa's population was approximately 1,010,537. On 25 January 2023, its historic city centre was declared a World Heritage Site and added to the List of World Heritage in Danger by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in recognition of its multiculturality and 19th-century urban planning. The declaration was made in response to the bombing of Odesa during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has damaged or destroyed buildings across the city. Read more on Wikipedia