History of Odessa

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Odessa, Ukraine.

13th to 17th century[]

1240 - Tatars begin settling herds in the region.
1415 - a settlement of Kachibei (Khadjibey, Hacıbey, Kotsiubiyiv) was first mentioned.^[1]^[2]^[3]
15th century - Khadjibey ceded to Lithuania.
1529 - Ottoman conquest.^{[citation needed]}

18th century[]

1764 - Fortress Yeni Dünya built at Khadjibey by Turks.^[4]^[5]
1789 - Russian forces take fortress.^[5]
1791 - Khadjibey annexed to Novorossiya.^[5]
1794 - Odessa founded by decree of Catherine II of Russia.
1795
- Population: 2,250.^[4]
- Cathedral of the Transfiguration founded.^[6]

19th century[]

1802 - Population: 9,000.^[7]
1803 - Duc de Richelieu in power.
1804 - Commercial school founded.^[7]
1805
- Odessa becomes administrative center of New Russia.^[7]
- Theatre opens.^[7]
- Russian Orthodox church built.^[8]
1808 - Troitzkaya Church active.^[6]
1809
- Cathedral built.^[4]
- Opera house built.^[8]
1812 - Plague.^[7]
1814 - Population: 25,000.^[4]
1816 - Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron in power.
1817 - Richelieu Lyceum established.^[8]
1819 - Odessa becomes a free port.^[9]
1821
- Church of the Dormition built.^{[citation needed]}
- Pogrom against Jews.
1824 - Odessa becomes "seat of the governors-general of Novorossia and Bessarabia."^[4]
1825 - Archeological Museum founded.^{[citation needed]}
1826
- Fyodor Palen in power.
- Jewish school established.^[8]
- Richelieu Monument unveiled.
1828 - Imperial Rural Association for Southern Russia founded.^[10]
1830
- Public library established.^[11]
- Vorontsov Palace built.
1838 - Plague.^[12]
1841 - Giant Staircase constructed.
1846 - Londonskaya Hotel opens.^{[citation needed]}
1847 - Novobazarnaya Church built.^[6]
1850 - Population: 100,000.^[4]
1853
- Crimean War begins.
- Roman Catholic Church rebuilt.^[6]
1854 - Anglo-French fleet attacks Odessa.
1856 - Russian Steam Navigation and Trading Company established.
1857 - August 15: Free port status revoked.^[9]
1859 - Pogrom against Jews.
1862
- Odessa Military District established.
- Vorontsov Lighthouse built.
1865 - Imperial Novorossiya University established.^[4]
1866 - Odessa-Balta railway begins operating.^[4]
1871
- Pogrom against Jews.^[8]
- Russian Technical Society, Odessa branch, founded.
1873 - Population: 162,814.^[13]
1874 - Theatre Velikanova built.
1875 - Tzar visits Odessa.^[6]
1876 - Turkish forces attack Odessa.^[4]
1880 - Horse tramway begins operating.^{[citation needed]}
1881
- Steam tramway begins operating.^{[citation needed]}
- Pogrom against Jews.
1882 - Population: 217,000.^[14]
1887 - Theatre built.^[15]
1894 - Odessa Committee of the Social Democratic Workers Party organized.^[16]
1895 - St. Panteleimon church consecrated.^{[citation needed]}
1897 - Lutheran Church built.^[6]
1899
- General Post Office built.^[6]
- Exchange built.^[6]
- Bristol Hotel opens.
1900 - Population: 449,673.^[4]

20th century[]

1902 - Cadet School active.^[6]
1905
- June: Potemkin uprising.
- Pogrom against Jews.^[16]
1906
- Uprising.^[4]
- Municipal Library built.^[6]
1907 - Myrograph film studio in business.
1910
- Electric Tram begins operating.^[17]
- Trade fair held.
1913
- Conservatoire founded.^[6]
- Sergiyev Artillery School active.^[6]
- Population: 631,040.^[18]
1917 - City occupied by Ukrainian Tsentral'na Rada, French Army, Red Army, and White Army following the Bolshevik Revolution.^{[citation needed]}
1918
- 13 March: Odessa occupied by Central Powers.^[19]
- Odessa becomes capital of Odessa Soviet Republic.
- Polytechnic University established.
- December : Odessa occupied by the French Army
1919 - Odessa Film Studio founded.
1920 - Red Army in power.
1921 - Odessa State Economics University established.
1922
- Odessa State Medical Institute established.
- Odessa Zoo opens.
1924 - Odessa Philharmonic Theater opens.
1926 - State Odessa Russian Drama Theatre established.
1928 - Spartak Stadium opens.
1933 - School of Stolyarsky established.
1935 - Kosior Memorial Stadium built.
1936
- The Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases & Tissue Therapy founded.
- Dynamo football club formed.
1941
- August 8-October 16: Siege of Odessa.
- October 17: Axis occupation begins.
- October 22–24: 1941 Odessa massacre.
- Odessa becomes capital of Romanian-administered Transnistria Governorate.^{[citation needed]}
1944
- April 10: Red Army takes city; Axis occupation ends.
- ODO Odessa football team active.
- Odessa State Maritime Academy founded.
1945 - Odessa designated a Hero City of the USSR.
1952 - Railway Station rebuilt.
1961
- Odesa International Airport built.
- Pushkin Museum opens.
1963 - Avangard rugby club formed.
1965 - Population: 735,000.^[20]
1973 - April 10: Humorina festival begins.^[21]
1979 - Population: 1,072,000.^[22]
1984 - Deribasivska Street pedestrianized.
1985 - Population: 1,126,000.^[23]
1989 - Outdoor market relocates to Odessa-Ovidiopol highway.
1992 - BIPA-Moda basketball club formed.
1994
- Eduard Gurwits becomes mayor.
- New music festival begins.^[24]
1998 - Rouslan Bodelan becomes mayor.
1999 - Odessa Numismatics Museum established.
2000 - Quarantine Pier designated free economic zone and port.

21st century[]

2001 - Al-Salam Mosque opens.
2003 - Rebuilt Odessa Cathedral consecrated.
2005 - Eduard Gurwits becomes mayor again.^[25]
2007 - Privoz Market rebuilt.^{[citation needed]}
2010 - Odessa International Film Festival begins.
2011
- Chornomorets Stadium built.
- FC SKA Odesa formed.
- Aleksey Kostusyev becomes mayor.^[26]
- Population: 1,003,705.
2014 - 2014 Odessa clashes.^[27]
2014 - after Crimea annexation by Russia, Odesa become the main naval base of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.^[28]

References[]

^ "ОДЕСІ-600. О.В. Болдирєв : Мемуары об Одессе, проза, поэзия, живопись : Одессика - энциклопедия об Одессе". odessa.club.com.ua. Retrieved 2020-04-09.
^ "Історія Одеси". 2013-12-02. Archived from the original on 2013-12-02. Retrieved 2020-04-09.
^ State Institute of History of Ukraine. "Одеса". Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine (in Ukraininan). Retrieved 2020-04-09.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Britannica 1910.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Murray 1868.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Baedeker 1914.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Meakin 1906.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Zipperstein 1982.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Herlihy 1973.
^ Department of Agrigulture Ministry of Crown Domains for the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago (1893), The Industries of Russia: Agriculture and Forestry, 3, St. Petersburg
^ "Leading Libraries of the World: Russia and Finland". American Library Annual. New York: R.R. Bowker Co. 1916. pp. 477–478.
^ Koch 1855.
^ "Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1880. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590436.
^ "Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1885. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590469.
^ "Aged Beauty Gets a Face Lift From a Geologist". New York Times. November 1, 1999.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Odessa". Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. New York: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research. Archived from the original on October 2014.
^ http://www.odessapage.com/new/en/node/807
^ "Russia: Principal Towns: European Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.
^ Stephen Pope; Elizabeth-Anne Wheal (1995). "Select Chronology". Dictionary of the First World War. Macmillan. p. 523+. ISBN 978-0-85052-979-1.
^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966.
^ Barry, Ellen (1 April 2013). "New York Times".
^ Henry W. Morton and Robert C. Stuart, ed. (1984). The Contemporary Soviet City. New York: M.E. Sharpe. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-87332-248-5.
^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.
^ Thea Derks (1998). "Odessa". Tempo. New Series, No. 206.
^ "Odessa Mayor". Odessa City Council. Archived from the original on August 14, 2009.
^ "Odessa Mayor". Odessa City Council. Archived from the original on September 30, 2011.
^ "Ukraine Crisis: Timeline". BBC News. 13 November 2014. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
^ "Будівництво бази Військово-морських Сил України в Одесі". Український мілітарний портал (in Russian). 2017-03-19. Retrieved 2020-04-09.

Bibliography[]

Published before 1950

H. A. S. Dearborn (1819), "Odessa", A Memoir on the Commerce and Navigation of the Black Sea, Boston: Wells & Lilly
Charles Sicard (1819), An Account of Odessa, Newport, R.I., USA: Printed by William Simons, OL 24661988M
Robert Bremner (1840), "Odessa", Excursions in the interior of Russia (2nd ed.), London: H. Colburn
"Odessa", Hand-book for Northern Europe; including Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia (New ed.), London: John Murray, 1849
Anatole de Demidoff (1853), "Odessa", Travels in southern Russia and the Crimea, London: J. Mitchell, OCLC 14437725
Alden, Henry Mills; Allen, Frederick Lewis; Hartman, Lee Foster; Wells, Thomas Bucklin (1854). "The Steppes, Odessa, and the Crimea". Harper's New Monthly Magazine.
Charles W. Koch (1855), The Crimea: with a visit to Odessa, London: Routledge, OCLC 12097882, OL 23534204M
"Odessa". Hand-book for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland (2nd ed.). London: John Murray. 1868.
John Ramsay McCulloch (1877), "Odessa", in Hugh G. Reid (ed.), A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., hdl:2027/njp.32101079877088 – via Hathi Trust
Annette M. B. Meakin (1906). "Odessa". Russia, Travels and Studies. London: Hurst and Blackett. OCLC 3664651.
"Odessa", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York: Cambridge, Eng., New York, At the University Press, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
William Eleroy Curtis (1911). "Odessa". Around the Black Sea. New York: Hodder & Stoughton. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t3222tf2d.
Ruth Kedzie Wood (1912). "Odessa". The Tourist's Russia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. OCLC 526774.
"Odessa". Russia. Leipzig: Karl Baedeker. 1914. OCLC 1328163.

Published since 1950

Dzhumyga, Ievgen.Dzhumyga, Ievgen. "The Home Front In Odessa During The Great War (July 1914–February 1917): The Gender Aspect Of The Problem." Danubius 31 (2013):pp 223+ online
Patricia Herlihy (1973). "Odessa: Staple Trade and Urbanization in New Russia". Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas. Neue Folge, Bd. 21.
Steve J. Zipperstein (1982). "Jewish Enlightenment in Odessa: Cultural Characteristics, 1794-1871". Jewish Social Studies. 44 (1): 19–36. JSTOR 4467153.
Herlihy, Patricia. "The ethnic composition of the city of Odessa in the nineteenth century." Harvard Ukrainian Studies 1.1 (1977): 53–78.

External links[]

New York Public Library. Images related to Odessa, various dates.

Images[]

Map of Odessa region, 1809
Odessa, 1830s
Odessa, 1850s
Port Practique, Odessa, ca.1890s
Unveiling of Catherine II monument, 1900
Odessa, 1917

[1] "ОДЕСІ-600. О.В. Болдирєв : Мемуары об Одессе, проза, поэзия, живопись : Одессика - энциклопедия об Одессе". odessa.club.com.ua. Retrieved 2020-04-09.

[2] "Історія Одеси". 2013-12-02. Archived from the original on 2013-12-02. Retrieved 2020-04-09.

[3] State Institute of History of Ukraine. "Одеса". Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine (in Ukraininan). Retrieved 2020-04-09.

[FOOTNOTEBritannica1910-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Britannica 1910.

[FOOTNOTEMurray1868-5] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Murray 1868.

[FOOTNOTEBaedeker1914-6] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Baedeker 1914.

[FOOTNOTEMeakin1906-7] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Meakin 1906.

[FOOTNOTEZipperstein1982-8] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Zipperstein 1982.

[FOOTNOTEHerlihy1973-9] Jump up to: ^a ^b Herlihy 1973.

[10] Department of Agrigulture Ministry of Crown Domains for the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago (1893), The Industries of Russia: Agriculture and Forestry, 3, St. Petersburg

[11] "Leading Libraries of the World: Russia and Finland". American Library Annual. New York: R.R. Bowker Co. 1916. pp. 477–478.

[FOOTNOTEKoch1855-12] Koch 1855.

[13] "Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1880. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590436.

[14] "Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1885. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590469.

[15] "Aged Beauty Gets a Face Lift From a Geologist". New York Times. November 1, 1999.

[yivo-16] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Odessa". Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. New York: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research. Archived from the original on October 2014.

[17] ttp://www.odessapage.com/new/en/node/807

[18] "Russia: Principal Towns: European Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.

[19] Stephen Pope; Elizabeth-Anne Wheal (1995). "Select Chronology". Dictionary of the First World War. Macmillan. p. 523+. ISBN 978-0-85052-979-1.

[20] "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966.

[21] Barry, Ellen (1 April 2013). "New York Times".

[Morton1984-22] Henry W. Morton and Robert C. Stuart, ed. (1984). The Contemporary Soviet City. New York: M.E. Sharpe. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-87332-248-5.

[23] United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.

[24] Thea Derks (1998). "Odessa". Tempo. New Series, No. 206.

[25] "Odessa Mayor". Odessa City Council. Archived from the original on August 14, 2009.

[26] "Odessa Mayor". Odessa City Council. Archived from the original on September 30, 2011.

[bbc-crisis-27] "Ukraine Crisis: Timeline". BBC News. 13 November 2014. Retrieved 28 February 2015.

[28] "Будівництво бази Військово-морських Сил України в Одесі". Український мілітарний портал (in Russian). 2017-03-19. Retrieved 2020-04-09.

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History of Odessa

Contents

13th to 17th century[]

18th century[]

19th century[]

20th century[]

21st century[]

See also[]

References[]

Bibliography[]

External links[]

Images[]