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.

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.
  • Pogrom against Jews.
• 1824 - Odessa becomes "seat of the governors-general of Novorossia and Bessarabia."[4]
• 1825 - Archeological Museum founded.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1881
  • Steam tramway begins operating.
  • 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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]

See also

• Odessa history
• History of Odessa
• List of mayors of Odessa, Ukraine

References

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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
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13. "Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1880. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590436.
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28. "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, 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.
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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

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