grigory muscovite. reportedly, odessa ranks fourth among the cities of the russian empire, two capitals, st. petersburg and moscow, and the former capital of poland, warsaw, are ahead of it. thus, for 115 years of existence, odessa, with its half a million population, ranked first among the provincial cities of russia the russian revolution radically changed the fate of odessa, the bolsheviks, by a strong-willed decision, included all of novorossia and the donbass in the ukrainian ussr they had established according to lenin's plan. this step was to strengthen the position of the ukrainian communists by adding industrialized provinces of southern russia to the agricultural regions of little russia . at the same time, a monument was dismantled in odessa the founders of the city of catherine, the great but preserved pedestal in 1921 , first installed the head, and then the figure of karl marx e-e in 1965 erected on this site monument in honor of the rebellious sailors of the battleship potemkin in 2007. h

one of the most rapidly developing and comfortable cities russian guide, compiled in 1910 by grigory muscovitessa reportedly ranks fourth among the cities of the russian empire, two capitals, st. petersburg and moscow and the former capital of poland , warsaw, are ahead of it. thus, in 115 years of existence, odessa, with its half a million population, took first place among the provincial cities of russia , the russian revolution radically changed the fate of odessa, the bolsheviks by a strong-willed decision, they included the whole of novorossia and donbass in the structure of the ukrainian ssr, established by them, lenin this step was supposed to strengthen the position of the ukrainian communists, adding to the agricultural regions of little russia, the industrialized provinces of southern russia , at the same time in odessa, the monument to the founder of the city, catherine the great, was dismantled, but the surviving pedestal was first installed in 1921, and then the figure of karl marx in 1965 a monument was erected on this site in honor of the rebellious sailors of the battleship pot