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Pushkinskaya Street & Ukrainian's 10th anniversary monument

From wikipedia.org

1 Pushkinskaya Street
2 Yellow brick road
3 Independence monument
4 Photos

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Pushkinskaya Street

Green Odessa
Each street in Odessa is lined with its own species of trees:

Ekaterininskaya is lined with catapla tress and chestnuts.
Primorsky Boulevard linden, maples, limes, and horse chestnut trees.
Deribasovskaya Street is shaded by linden trees.
Shevchenko Avenue is lined with Sycamore (plane) and sophora trees, with wild grapevines on the buildings.
Pushkinskaya is lined with hundred of Sycamore (plane) trees. Making it one of the most beautiful and shaded trees in Odessa.
History of trees in Odessa

Wonderfully detailed "arbor tags" to identify each kind of tree are available at:

www.arborworks.org
and
www.geocities.com/

jim_rose_i/arbortags.html

Ivy on typical Odessa building

Many houses are also decorated in decorative vines and ivy, including "Isabella" and "Lydia" grapes.

In August and September Odessites pick these grapes and make homemade juice and wine.

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Russian: Пушкинская

This street was once known as Italyanskaya Street (Italian). It was so named because many artists and architects from Italy lived on the street. In Pushkin wrote:

The tongue of Golden Italy Rings out on this gay street

In 1880 it was renamed after Pushkin.

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Yellow brick road

We're not in Kansas anymore...

Yellow brick road on Pushkinskaya Street (Пушкинская), Intersection of Lanzjeronovskaya (Ланжероновская)

Snowy night with independence monument in background
From artorb.com

At the beginning of the Pushkinskaya Street, in front of the Archaeological Museum this small section of street is paved with a peculiar light golden stone. It is made from clay and remains in a furnace until vitrified (turned into a glassy substance). It is incredibly wear and frost resistant. The original plan was to pave three streets with this stone. This small section of the road was laid with this stone in 1913, but the beginning of World War One prevented further work.

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Independence monument

Independence monument in foreground with Opera Theater in background

Next to the yellow brick road and in front of the maritime museum, is a strange monument to the 10th anniversary of Ukraine's independence. This monument once had the following golden words below a Ukrainian trident and above the white columns:

24-08-1991 to 24-08-2001 10 years of Ukrainian independence Since then these words have been removed, either stolen or taken down by the authorities because of embarrassment. The plaque on the chained stump reads:

Fragment of an oak-tree - state botanical nature monument, Odessa history monument - this tree stood at this site from 1812 to 2001