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Grassy meridian which has the anchor, Odessa stairs are just beyond meridian on far left of photo, between the white building

From www.geocities.com/mike_gurvich/

Port museum & cannon

Lanzjeronovskaya spusk (decent/stairs) (Ланжероновская спуск)

Just east of the Literary museum is a long stairway. In the middle of this stairway is the port museum on the north side (See Museums--in September 2007 the port musuem was closed) on the south side is another cannon.

Artist V. Voronin

from www.odessaonline.com.ua

Map of Hadjibei on Lanzjeronovskaya spusk (decent/stairs) (Ланжероновская спуск)

From russian-women.net

War cannon and plaque

Behind and above the cannon, on the wall, is a large golden plaque. The plaque reads:

To first builder of Odessa port and city Franz P. De Volan

Plaque to Franz P. De Volan

Map of Hadjibei

Below the plaque is a map which shows Hadjibei, the predecessor to modern day Odessa, the inscription in the corner reads:

• More on Joseph De Ribas and Frantz De Volan busts
• More on the history of Deribasovskaya Street,
• More on Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov, founder of Odessa

(The cannon is Discussed in more detail under Crimean War Cannon, This page also includes where to find more war cannons throughout the city)

Memorial Plaque

At the base of Lanzjeronovskaya spusk (decent/stairs) (Ланжероновская спуск)

Great proletarian writer A. M. Gorky lived in this building in 1891.

Photos

			Retro-Lenin graffiti on the port stairs
	Courtyard just above the stairs	Literary museum
At Lanzjeronovskaya 6 (Ланжероновская 6) there was formerly a large black anchor next to a white marble plaque near the entrance to the Literary museum. The inscription reads : 150 years of the Black Sea Shipping Company The dates "1833-1983" are inscribed on the back. This has been moved to Shevchenko Park.

Continue your virtual tour by walking to the Industrial Port