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Exterior of Dom Kenegy on a shady afternoon, photo from 2002

Afina Mall

Dom Kenegy

Russian: The "book house"

Deribasovskaya 27 (Дерибасовская)

Open: 10am - 7 pm, lunch 1pm - 2pm Closed all holidays

Odessa's largest bookstore. Dom Kenegy also sells post cards / greeting cards, gift wrapping, office supplies upstairs, and maps.

More on English literature available in Odessa.

Grecheskaya Ploshat (Square)

Russian: Греческая Площадь

Before independence, a large, dilapidated, three-story apartment building stood on the square. It was torn down after independence. Various problems with funding prohibited any contractor from building. For years this square stood barren. Many argued that the square should remain empty. But in early 2002, a large six-story building began to be built on the square.

Behind the Dom Kenegy bookstore is the new 6 story mall called Afina Gallery.

The illegal money exchange, and illegal, pirated CD bazaar was previously on Grecheskaya square and has sinced moved just south to Aleksandrovsky Ave.

Mayor Marazli Monument

Grigorii Grigoryevich Marazli

See also: Odessa leaders

Grigorii Grigoryevich Marazli (Григорий Маразли) (also spelled as Gregory, Grigory Marasli) (1831-1907) was the mayor of Odessa from 1880-1895. Marazli was a leading member of the Greek community and was one of Odessa's foremost philanthropists. He built churches, museums, libraries, clinics and animal shelters--all with his own money.^[1] These include:

• 5 thousand rubles to Mariinskomu (Мариинскому) orphanage
• 30 thousand rubles to the old Christian cemetery
• 47 thousand rubles to the hospice on plague hill (богадельни у Чумной горы)
• the plot of land to the society for inexpensive shelter (обществу устройства дешевых ночлежных приютов) (estimated at 21 thousand rubles)
• two houses for the Greek charity association (Греческого благотворительного общества) (81 thousand rubles),
• financed the built a barracks for the poor,
• public school and church in the kuyalnitskom estuary (Куяльницком лимане),
• addition to The sturdzovskoy almshouse (Стурдзовской богадельне),
• Russia's first building of bacteriological station (бактериологической станции),
• helped fund the building of the library and museum of history and antiquities (30 thousand rubles) (библиотеки и музея Общества истории и древностей ),
• school at the neighbor mills (училища на Ближних Мельницах),
• two-year school with the library at staroreznichnoy (Старорезничной),
• school of horticulture on Small Fountain (школы садоводства на Малом Фонтане),
• Public readings on the settlement (17 thousand rubles),
• two chapels,
• the church of Grigoriy and Zoya with 2nd female secondary school (in the memory of his parents (церкви Григория и Зои при 2-й женской гимназии),
• presented to city palace on Sofiyevskoy street (ул. Софиевской) which is now the museum of fine arts (Музей изящных искусств),
• materially helped students,
• bequeathed 100 thousand rub to the charity^[1]

Gregory Marazli was responsible for several Odessa statues, including the Laocoon Sculpture in front of the Archeology Museum and robed woman statue next to the mother-and-law's bridge alcove.

For his service to the city, two plaques are on the house at Pushkinskaya 4 where he lived, and on September 2, 2004, this memorial plaque was raised to him in Greek Square.^[1]

Afina Mall

This modern, several story mall, has a Tavriya chain grocery store in the basement. There is also a pay toilet in the basement.

Afina Mall on Grecheskaya Square	Afina Mall	Afina Mall	Tavriya grocery store in the basement of Afina Mall
Inside Afina Mall	Inside Afina Mall	Afina Mall basement hallway to the toilet as seen from the escalators	Afina Mall toilet sign
Afina Mall store directory, September 2007

Location

• On the East side of this square is the Greek Collection Fund, with a statute of Filiki Eteria.

Notes

1. ^ ^a b c Helling, Nadia; Brigitte Schulze (2005). Invitation to Odessa Ukraine A guide. Impulse. 3981046714. 

Photos

Outside the bookstore	Bookstore	Copy center on Grecheskaya Square	Baskin Robins on Grecheskaya Square
2002 photo of the bazaar before completion of the mall	2002 photo	2002 photo	Photographers on Deribasovskaya
	Deribasovskaya Street from Odecca.com	Deribasovskaya Street Postcard taken in the 1900s From www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu	Battery operated kids cars for rent
Former Gastonom 1, now a jewlery shop, photo taken in 2002		Bookstore building as seen from Grecheskaya Square (Греческая Площадь) in 2002, this building once had four bookstores, including Dom Kenegy bookstore, a medical book store, a second hand books store, and a smaller book store specializing in children's books. The office supply and children's book store have since closed.

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