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Bessarabian

Taste of Bessarabia

The Bessarabia region is home to various different kinds of local cuisine created at the intersection of various different cultures in this region that...

An Architectural Strategy For Odessa: A Dialogue With Ruslan Tarpan

The builder and restorer Ruslan Tarpаn is a prominent figure in the Odessa business world, but has a media reputation of being a private...

Francoise Oz: Art Through Fashion

While Searching For A Fresh Approach To The Plastic Arts Odessa Based Painters Francoise Oz And Bogdan Perevertun Immersed Themselves In The World Of...

The Secret Of Bessarabia’s Cuisine

If you were to ask me what I consider to be the most important elements in the cuisine of Bessarabia, I would answer you...

The Evolutionary History of the Barbara Bui Design House

The Barbara Bui boutique on Ekaterininska street in Odessa has been a staple of the city’s fashion scene for years. The French designer’s raw...

Daydreaming About Odessa’s Soho: The Revival Of The ‘Devolanovsky’ Descent

For decades, the Devolansky Descent (or the ‘Ditch’), the long street stretching from the foot of the port to the plaza about a kilometer...

Odessa Tourism Forum Gathered Experts

The Odessa Tourism Business Forum took place at the Bristol hotel last week. The Forum was the brain child of Ivan Liptuga who is...
Odessa Football

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...

The Odessan Dvorik

The Ukrainian and Russian words “dvorik” and “dvor” (or dvoriki and dvori in plural) are frequently translated into English as either “courtyard” or “patio,”...