Deribasovskaya Street
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Deribasovskaya Street (Russian: Дерибасовская) is a pedestrian walkway in the heart of Odessa, Ukraine. The street is named after José de Ribas, who helped build the city, and who lived on the street.
Next to the street is Odessa's first park, which was built shortly after the foundation of the city in 1803 by De Ribas's brothers, Joseph and Felix. This park has a fountain, bandstand, and several monuments, including a sculpture of a lion and lioness with her cubs, a chair commemorating the famous book "The Twelve Chairs", two monuments to Leonid Osipovich Utyosov (a sculpture and also a phone which plays his music), and a monument to Sergey Utochkin, a famous pilot.
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Arcadia Beach • Childrens Palace • Botanical Gardens • Catacombs • City council building • Deribasovskaya Street • Film Studio • Londonskaya Hotel • Monument to Potemkin sailors • Mother-in-Law's Bridge • Opera Theater • Odessa Passazh • Pushkin Museum • Sea Port •Train Station • Park Pobedeh • Philharmonic theater • Potemkin Stairs • Primorsky Boulevard • Privoz Market • Seventh-Kilometer Market • Shevchenko Park • Tsentralnyi-Chornomorets Stadium • Vorontsov Lighthouse
Previously named Gimnazskaya Street - after the Gimnasium opened 16/04/1804. Since July 6 1811 - Deribasovskaya or de Ribasovskaya or even Ribasovskaya. During the first years of Bolshevik's rule it (30.04/1920 - 1938) was named after the German revolutioner Ferdinand Lassal. 1938-1941 - Chkalov Street From 19/11/1941 - Deribasovskaya. It spans from it's beginning (near Polskaya Str.,) up to the Preobrazhenskaya and Sadovaya crossing Pushkinskaya, Rishelyevskaya, Yekaterininskaya, Gavannaya, and Vice-Admiral Zhukov's Lane.
