The city was built in 1778 by the Russian Empress Catherine the Great as a fortress where Cossacks fought against the Tatars and Turks.
Odessa
Opera House
Opera House
Port
Witch House
Odessa is considered to be one of the world's most fascinating cities, enhanced by marvelous monuments of 19th-century architecture—the Opera House, the museum of Western and Oriental Art, the museum of Archeology, the famous Potemkin Staircase