Theatre Square

The square in front of the Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater, popularly known as "Theater Square", is one of the most beautiful and remarkable squares of the city. A popular place for festivities, festivities, gatherings and rallies, as well as the place of the most famous and popular stories and scandals.

The debate over the return of the stella with the names of the Heroes of Socialist Labor and the addition of 19 names to the names of the Heroes of the Soviet Union to the square has only stopped, and the controversy over the creation and installation of a sculptural composition by David Oistrakh, the world-famous Odessite musician, has ended. How passions flared up around two small squares, successfully completing the formation of the square near the Opera and Ballet Theatre.

Odessa residents who are interested in the history of their city remember 1995, in which a sensational discovery was made - "and the history of the city, after all, began here..." The first house of Odessa, Prince Grigory Semyonovich Volkonsky, was found. The house once occupied the entire block from the current Richelieu Street - between Langeronovskaya and Deribasovskaya. In the remains of the building found: Catherine's pen, laid with a double-headed eagle up, a rusted dagger and fragments of crystal glasses, a tray and a bottle with a cork. These artifacts are included in the exposition of the Odessa Museum of Local History, which tells about the foundation of Odessa on August 22, 1794.

In the same excavation, the remains of the grand staircase of the Langeron Palace were found from expensive Mediterranean marble. And also revealed the oldest layers, hiding luxury items belonging to the ancient period in the history of the city.

Thus, this place of Old Odessa can surprise its residents more than once, and tell them the true story of the founding of the city.