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54 unusual facts about Odessa


A.J. Trauth

He is the youngest of three brothers and currently resides in Odessa, Texas.

Alexander Dodonov

He sang for two years at the Italian operatic scenes in (Milan and Naples), then in Odessa and Kiev.

Ali Kelmendi

He passed one year in the Dzerzhinsky Academy in Leningrad (today's "Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich") he moved to Odessa to work as customs official.

Alicante Bouschet

Alibernet - crossing of Alicante Bouschet x Cabernet Sauvignon was bred in 1950 in the Ukrainian Scientific Research Institute for Wine and Vines in Odessa.

Barry Melton

His mother was from an East Coast Jewish family (her parents were from Odessa) and his father was from Texas.

Be'er Tuvia

The village was almost abandoned, but in 1896, the association of Hovevei Zion in Odessa purchased the land and new settlers came.

Benya Krik

Krik, who is also known as The King, is the leader of a group of thugs and smugglers, that operate in the Jewish ghetto Moldavanka in Odessa.

Bront Bird

He played high school football at Permian High School in Odessa, Texas where he was a standout at wide receiver and linebacker.

Causes of the Holodomor

In order to alleviate the situation, a system of food rationing was initially implemented in Odessa in the second quarter of 1928, and later spread to Mariupol, Kherson, Kiev, Dniprelstan (Dnipropetrovsk), and Kharkiv.

Component General

The company operates out of a 19,000 square foot plant in Odessa, Florida.

Ella Joyce

Other stage plays in which she has appeared include "Bossa Nova", Last Street Play (The Mighty Gents), Checkmates, Brothers, Sisters, Husbands and Wives, Don't Get God Started!, Louis and Ophelia, Split Second, Home, Not a single Blade of Grass, Odessa, "Barefoot In The Park", and Anna Lucasta.

Eugene List

Louis Lisnitzer had immigrated to America from Odessa, Russia and settled in Philadelphia, where he met and married Rose, whose family had also come from the same region.

Fontanka School

The school of social rehabilitation is located close to Odessa city, 4 kilometers north of Odessa Kotovskiy (Kotovskogo) District, in the small village of Fontanka on the coast of the Black Sea.

HC Odessa

HC Odessa is an ice hockey team in Odessa, Ukraine.

Jan Wacław Machajski

His ideas were taken up by the Workers' Conspiracy, which was active in Odessa in 1906 but had become peripheral in the Russian empire a year later.

Judah Leib Gordon

His poems were collected in four volumes, Kol Shire Yehudah (St. Petersburg, 1883–1884); his novels in Kol Kitbe Yehuda (Collected Writings of Gordon, Odessa, 1889).

Kelly Schmedes

Kelly Schmedes (born Kelly Wilson on 11 February 1983, in Odessa, Texas) is an American soccer forward who last played for Boston Breakers of Women's Professional Soccer, and was a member of the United States women's national soccer team.

KPBT-TV

KPBT-TV is a public television station located in Odessa, Texas, broadcasting locally on digital channel 38 as a PBS member station.

Kunmadaras

The 328th independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment, Southern Group of Forces, was stationed at Kunmadaras until 1990-91, whereupon it was withdrawn back to the Odessa region and disbanded.

KUPB

KUPB is a Spanish-language television station in the Midland/Odessa, Texas area owned by Entravision and affiliated with Univisión.

KUPT

While KUPT is focused on the Lubbock television market, the city that the station's main license and transmitter is based in—Hobbs, New Mexico—is within the Odessa / Midland market.

Lake Odessa, Michigan

The township had been named for the city of Odessa in Ukraine, reflecting an interest of one of the founders in Ukraine as well as a desire for a distinctive name.

Mikhail Vasilyevich Bocharov

Bocharov sang in Kiev opera since 1900, then sang in Moscow (Zimin Opera), St. Petersburg, Odessa and other cities.

Municipiu

Cluj and Oradea temporarily lost the title in 1940 as a result of the Second Vienna Award, while it was granted to Odessa and Tiraspol during the Transnistria Governorate period.

Northeastern Football Alliance

Originally based in Odessa, New York; the Warriors joined the NFA in 2011 and moved to Ithaca, New York in 2013.

ODESSA

Several books by those involved in the War Crimes Commission (including T.H. Tetens and Joseph Wechsberg) have verified the organization's existence and provided details of its operations.

In the realm of fiction, the Frederick Forsyth best-selling 1972 thriller The Odessa File brought the organization to popular attention.

This view is supported by historian Guy Walters in his book Hunting Evil, where he also points out that networks were used, but there was not such a thing as a setup network covering Europe and South America, with an alleged war treasure.

Odessa Art Museum

Odessa Art Museum is located in the Odessa city center, in the palace of the Naryshkin (also called "Potocki Palace", as it was the firstly owned by O. S. Potockaya, who was married Naryshkin), which is a monument of architecture of the early 19th century.

Odessa Mama

Odessa Mama – a term used by the people of Odessa (and not only people from Odessa refer to Odessa as "mama") to lovingly refer to their city as "mother"

Odessa, Missouri

Arizona Diamondbacks' pitcher Brad Ziegler, who made his major-league debut in May 2008, is a graduate of Odessa High School.

Odessa, Nebraska

It is part of the Kearney, Nebraska Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Odessa is a census-designated place (CDP) in Odessa Township, Buffalo County, Nebraska, United States.

Odessa, Oregon

Odessa is located along Oregon Route 140 a couple miles east of its interchange with the West Side Road near Rocky Point or 23 miles west of Klamath Falls.

Odessa, Texas metropolitan area

The Odessa Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of one county – Ector – in West Texas, anchored by the city of Odessa.

Pablo Vitti

His stay in Odessa was brief, and on 9 February 2009, it was announced that Toronto FC of Major League Soccer had signed Vitti on a loan.

Pethia padamya

This fish is also known as the ornamental fish species "Odessa barb" because it was said to have first appeared in pet enthusiast’s circles in Odessa, Ukraine in the early 1970s.

Polo Urías

He has also impacted the city of Odessa, Texas leading the mayor of the city, Larry Melton, to honor him with the key to the city and marking every 15 November as "Polo Urias Day".

Pontic Greek

Pontic is still spoken by large numbers of people in Ukraine: mainly Mariupol, but also other places in Ukraine such as Odessa and Donetsk, Russia (around Stavropol) and Georgia.

Postage stamps and postal history of Ukraine

In 1918 Russian stamps were overprinted with a trident for use in Kiev, Odessa, Yekaterinoslav, Kharkiv, Poltava, Podolia, and Kherson.

Royce Berry

Berry grew up in Odessa, Texas, one of six children of R.V. and Katherine Berry.

Russian battleship Georgii Pobedonosets

However, loyal crew members regained control of the ship the next day and they ran her aground when Potemkin threatened to fire on her if she left Odessa harbor.

Russian Caravan

The southern route by Odessa is far cheaper, but the tea is supposed to suffer in flavour in its transit through the tropical seas, while it improves in its passage through the cold dry climate of Mongolia and Siberia, by losing that unpleasant taste of firing whereby tea was dried using direct heat.

Simhah Pinsker

He then went to Odessa, and, owing to his calligraphic skill, became secretary to the rabbi.

Tavrey Airlines

Tavrey Airlines, also known as Tavrey Aircompany was an airline based in Odessa, Ukraine.

TeleType Co., Inc.

Ed Friedman was born in Odessa, Ukraine and graduated from the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (currently the National University of Science and Technology) with a B.S. in Transportation Engineering.

The Client List

A fictionalized dramatization of a 2004 prostitution scandal in Odessa, Texas, the film follows Sam Horton, a mother of three who becomes a prostitute to make ends meet.

Toscha Seidel

Toscha Seidel (November 17, 1899 – November 15, 1962) was a Russian virtuoso violinist, born in Odessa.

Ukrvozdukhput

Founded on June 1, 1923 Ukvozduchput began operating on April 15, 1925 when it offered service from Kharkiv to Odessa and Kiev.

Victory Square, Minsk

On 1 July 1984 granite blocks were mounted with capsules containing soil from Soviet Hero Cities: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Volgograd, Kiev, Odessa, Sevastopol, Kerch, Novorossiysk, Tula, Brest Fortress.

Vladimir Rebikov

Rebikov taught and played in concerts in various parts of the Russian Empire: Moscow, Odessa, Kishinev, Yalta, as well as in Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Leipzig, Florence and Paris, where met Claude Debussy, Oscar Nedbal, Zdenek Needly, and others.

Werner Hoeger

He then taught at the University of the Andes in Merida, Venezuela from 1978 to 1982; the University of Texas of the Permian Basin in Odessa from 1983 to 1986, and served as Technical Director of Fitness Monitoring in Rolling Meadows, Illinois from 1982 to 1983.

Wigham Richardson

Aidar was owned at the time by London Steamers and was carrying a cargo of grain and oil cakes between Odessa and Marseilles.

Yitzkhok Yoel Linetzky

Linetzky ran away to Odessa, Ukraine, where he acquired a secular education.


30th Rifle Division

On 6 August 1941, the division was transferred to the Separate Coastal Army, which was entrusted with the defense of Odessa, but before managing to link up with the Separate Coastal Army, the division was cut off, not connected to the main forces of the army, and was forced to withdraw to the Southern Bug River.

Alexander Gerschenkron

Alexander Gerschenkron (in Russian Александр Гершенкрон, * 1904 in Odessa, Russian Empire, now Ukraine, † 26 October 1978 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a Russian-born American Jewish economic historian and professor in Harvard, trained in the Austrian School of economics.

Augustus Abbott

In addition to Frederick and James, Augustus had two other younger brothers: Saunders Alexius Abbott (1811–1894), also an army officer in the East India Company, who played an important part in the Battle of Mudki during the First Anglo-Sikh War, and made the rank of major-general, and Keith Edward Abbott (d. 1873), consul-general at Tabriz and later Odessa.

Bill Myrick

Bill Myrick moved his wife, Laverne S. Myrick (born 1930), and toddler daughter Bellinda Myrick (born 1948) to Odessa, the county seat of Ector County, on the advice on Myrick's friend Hank Williams.

Boris Iofan

Born in Odessa, Iofan graduated in 1916 from Italy's Regio Istituto Superiore di Belle Arti in Rome with a degree in architecture, initially following in the Neoclassical tradition.

Buzz Bissinger

Bissinger is perhaps best known for his book Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream, which documents the 1988 season of the football team of Permian High School in Odessa, Texas.

Café-chantant

In the Russian Empire, the term was taken wholesale into the Russian language as "kafe-shantan" (кафе-шантан); Odessa was the city best known for its numerous kafe-shantany.

Eduard Roschmann

Goñi, Uki, ODESSA—Smuggling the Nazis to Perón's Argentina, Granta, New York 2002 ISBN 1-86207-552-2

Gene Mayfield

Memorial services for Mayfield were held on October 5 at the Lake Ridge United Methodist Church in Lubbock, with the Reverend Don Caywood of Odessa officiating.

Globe of the Great Southwest

Located in Odessa, Texas, the Globe of the Great Southwest is a replica of William Shakespeare's original Globe Theatre.

Golden Telecom

Its wireless network covers just two metropolitan areas: Kiev and Odessa, lacking the national coverage of its competitors.

Henryk Batuta hoax

Izaak Apfelbaum (ur. 1898 w Odessie, zm. 1947 pod Ustrzykami Górnymi) - polski komunista, działacz międzynarodowego ruchu robotniczego.

Joe Melson

He attended high school in Gore, Oklahoma, and in Chicago before he returned to Texas to study at the two-year Odessa College in Odessa, the seat of Ector County.

John Jerome

After teaching in West Texas, Jerome went to work in 1959 as an editor for Sports Car Digest in Odessa, Texas.

KUFO

KODM, a radio station (97.9 FM) licensed to Odessa, Texas, United States, which used the call sign KUFO from 1979 to 1985

Lazar Krestin

He worked in Munich, Vienna and Odessa before coming to Jerusalem in 1910 at the request of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design founder, Boris Schatz.

Michael Papadjanian

Michael Papadjanian, or Mikayel (Yerevan 1868 – Tiflis 1929) was a member of Armenian national liberation movement who studied law at Rostov, Odessa and St Petersburg, and had a practice as a barrister at Baku.

Michel Emmanuel Rodocanachi

Recognising the importance of having a presence on the London market, in 1830 they sent their son Michael there to cover their interests and work with other family members who traded grain in Odessa, St Petersburg, Italy & Marseille.

Mykhailo Andriienko-Nechytailo

In 1917–1924, he devoted most of his time to designing stage sets for various theaters—in Saint Petersburg, Odessa, Prague, Paris, and for the Royal Opera in Bucharest.

Odessa Military District

The Odessa MD was reinforced by several units from the Ukrainian Front that took part in the Soviet invasion of Poland and Romania, previously formed on base of the Odessa Army Group of the Kiev Special Military District (reformed Kiev Military District).

Odessa Russian Theatre

In 1927, the Executive Political Committee of the Odessa Governorate (Gubispolkom) appointed opera singer Andrei Alekseyevich Ivanov as director of the theatre.

Omalos

The Cretan revolutionary Hatzimichalis Giannaris (1833-1916) was born in nearby Lakkoi, and was prominent in the 1855-1869 conflicts, captured but escaped from prison in Chania and then exiled to Odessa.

Paul List

He drew a match (+4 –4 =1) with Grigory Levenfish in 1910, he tied for 3rd place at Odessa 1910 (Boris Verlinsky won), tied for 15-16th at St. Petersburg 1911 (Stepan Levitsky won), and tied for fourth with Ilya Rabinovich in the seventh All-Russian Masters' Tournamenr (Hauptturnier) at Vilna 1912, Lithuania (then Russian Empire).

Peter Petrelli

Simone shows Peter a photograph of the painting which sends Peter to the high school in Odessa, Texas where he meets Claire Bennet, the cheerleader with superhuman regenerative abilities.

Ralli Brothers

Brother Eustratios ran the textile export operations from Manchester, Toumazis sourced raw materials and grain from Odessa and Constantinople, Pandia financed it from the Baltic Exchange, and Augustus oversaw the Mediterranean operations from Marseille.

Richard Glücks

In the film adoptation of "The Odessa File" the part of Glücks was played by Hannes Messemer who had also played the POW Commandant in The Great Escape.

Rosemary Thomas

From 2006–7 she was the Head of Communications of the European Union Border Assistance Mission to Moldova and Ukraine, based in Odessa.

Samson Flexor

Samson was educated at a private school in Soroca, then in the Odessa Art School in Bucharest, where she moved the whole family.

Tyrell McCrea

In the first game of his senior year against historic Odessa Permian High School, McCrea had an 80 yard touchdown run during the first half to begin his season.

Ukrainian Sea Guard

The Sea Guard operates four sea guard detachments: in Balaklava, Odessa, Izmail, and Kerch; a sea guard cutters division in Mariupol; a special-purpose sea guard cutters division in Yalta; and riverine Dnieper sea guard cutters division in Kiev.

Vera Nabokov

With the turmoil of the Russian Revolution, the family moved to Moscow, and after fleeing through Kiev, Odessa, Istanbul, and Sofia, arrived in Berlin, where they joined the large Russian émigré population.

Victor Zâmbrea

His works are found in private and public collections in Paris, Bucharest, Moscow, Kiev, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, Montreal, Riga, Vilnius, Timişoara, Braşov, Odessa, Nikolaev, Tumen, Novokuznetsk, Esentuki, Sighetu Marmaţiei.

WFLR

WFIZ, a radio station (95.5 FM) licensed to Odessa, New York, United States, which held the call sign WFLR-FM until September 2008

Yakov Vilner

He won the Ukrainian championships three times; at Kiev 1924 (ahead of Fedor Bohatirchuk), at Kharkov 1925 (ahead of Nikolai Sorokin), and at Odessa 1928 (with Vladimir Kirillov).

Yelpidifor Anempodistovich Kirillov

Professor Kirillov helped the arrival in the Soviet Union in 1935 of the famous German physicist Guido Beck, who laid the foundation of theoretical physics in Odessa.