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Babel's Extended Ode to Odessa
'Odessa' by Isaac Babel
Translated by Val Vinokur
Photo by Igor Sytnik
Odessa is a nasty town. Everybody knows this. Instead of saying “what’s the difference,” over...
Interview with Ukrainian Film Actress Kateryna Molchanova
Since she first appeared in the 2013 cult hit “My Mermaid, My Lorelei” under the legendary Georgian director Nana Jorjadze, Kateryna Molchanova has quickly...
Eugene Ostashevsky On “The Life And Opinions Of DJ Spinoza”
Eugene Ostashevsky is an American poet who was born in Leningrad into a family partially deriving from Odessa. He is now living in Berlin....
8 Great Women of Ukrainian Cinema
This article is part of The Odessa Review’s coverage of International Woman’s Day.
Five years ago I was engaged in conversation with a Ukrainian producer,...
Odessa In Anticipation Of Christmas And The New Year: In 2017 And 200 Years...
By Alexandra Pakina, participant of The Odessa Review journalism seminar and workshop
The New Year is on its way. The city adorns itself with festive decorations....
The Nine Most Astonishing Pictures From The 2018 Odesa Photo Days
Between April 25th and 29th the latest iteration of the popular international photo festival Odesa Photo Days will be held in Odessa. The city...
How Odessa Brought Football to the Tsarist Empire
Ever since Tsarist times, Odessa has been famed as a capital of comedy, commerce, criminality and cosmopolitanism, but it is also the place where...
Kyiv, April 11. Carmen
The event is part of the ongoing series "The Royal Opera in Cinema" (Королівська опера в кіно)
"Carmen" is the best-known work by French composer...
Travel Diary: Peter Zalmayev At The Lviv Alfa Jazz Festival
By Peter Zalmayev
Photos by Kateryna Melnykova
June 24, 2017
Exhausted, red-eyed, I run to jump on the 6:45 AM Intercity train right as the doors are...
Photographer In Focus – Boris Bukhman
Boris Bukhman is a photographer, a member of both the National Society of Photo Artists of Ukraine and the World Club of Odessites. He...
