"On the names of Odessa streets and districts" with Evgeny Grinkevich

Odessa is a special, colorful and very soulful city, in which, like in any other, there are streets, squares, lanes, squares, all this, in turn, is combined into large districts. Each object has its own name, which is the subject of many years of human observation, natural evolution. All city toponyms are speaking, explaining, clarifying. Of course, at the time of a radical change of power in the country, names appeared to please the ruling regime, this is happening today, but there is little interesting to tell about this. True, reasonable names are another matter. Well, for example, where did the name come from, and the lane itself Biscuit, Battery, Pochtovaya, Police, Jewish, Knyazheskaya, Petropavlovskaya, Gavannaya streets and many others. In this lecture, you will learn everything about the appearance of many Odessa city highways, how the names of the main urban areas appeared, as well as a lot of interesting things about the historical renaming. The very history of the city, its life flows in the streets and alleys, like blood in the veins of a person, taking in oxygen, nourishing the entire body. Come and find out what the street on which you live is named after, or who is named.  Thursday, January 20, 19:00 - 21:00  st. Lanzheronovskaya, 13/1  250 UAH (lecture + food) Recording in direct or by phone:  +38 096 142 13 79 (Viber, Telegram, WhatsApp)