Odessa
The chess player Efim Geller was born in the city. Gymnast Tatiana Gutsu known as "The Painted Bird of Odessa" brought home Ukraine's first Gold Medal as an independent nation when she outscored the USA's Shannon Miller in the women's All-Around event at 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona Spain.
Other notable sportsmen: Nikolai Avilov - Olympic champion in decathlon, Oksana Baiul - Olympic champion in figure skating, Viktor Petrenko - olympic champion in figure skating.
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References
- ^ About number and composition population of UKRAINE by All-Ukrainian Population Census 2001 data.. State Statistics Committee of Ukraine. Retrieved on 2006-07-30.
- ^ Herlihy, Patricia (1977). "The Ethnic Composition of the City of Odessa in the Nineteenth Century": p. 53.
- ^ History of Odessa (HTML). Odessa Online. Retrieved on May 1, 2006.
- ^ Odessa Tram Themes (HTML). Retrieved on May 2, 2006.
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See also
- History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union
- Odessa Soviet Republic
- Siege of Odessa
- Odessa massacre
- Culture of Odessa
- Moldavanka, the historical neighborhood of Odessa
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Further reading
- Dallin, Alexander (1998). Odessa, 1941–1944: A Case Study of Soviet Territory Under Foreign Rule. Iaşi–Oxford–Portland: Center for Romanian Studies. ISBN 973-98391-1-8, hardcover. Complete book available online.
- Friedberg, Maurice (1991). How Things Were Done in Odessa: Cultural and Intellectual Pursuits in a Soviet City. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. ISBN 0-8133-7987-3, hardcover. Two reviews
- Gubar, Oleg (2004). Odessa: New Monuments, Memorial Plaques, and Buildings. Odessa: Optimum. ISBN 966-8072-86-3.
- Herlihy, Patricia (1977). "The Ethnic Composition of the City of Odessa in the Nineteenth Century". Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University 1 (1): 53–78.
- Herlihy, Patricia (1979–1980). "Greek Merchants in Odessa in the Nineteenth Century". Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University 3 (4): 399–420.
- Herlihy, Patricia (1987, 1991). Odessa: A History, 1794–1914. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-916458-15-6, hardcover; ISBN 0-916458-43-1, paperback reprint.
- Herlihy, Patricia (2002). Commerce and Architecture in Odessa in Late Imperial Russia. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-6750-9, hardcover. In the book Commerce in Russian Urban Culture 1861–1914.
- Herlihy, Patricia (2003). Port Jews of Odessa and Trieste: A Tale of Two Cities (Jahrbuch des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts II). München: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt. ISBN 3-421-05522-X.
- Herlihy, Patricia; Gubar, Oleg. "The Persuasive Power of the Odessa Myth". Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University.
- Kaufman, Bel; Oleg Gubar (Contributor), Alexander Rozenboim (Contributor), Nicholas V. Iljine (Editor), Patricia Herlihy (Editor). (2004). Odessa Memories. Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN 0-295-98345-0, hardcover.
- Kononova, G. (1984). Odessa: A Guide. Moscow: Raduga Publishers.
- Makolkin, Anna (2004). A History of Odessa, the Last Italian Black Sea Colony. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN 0-7734-6272-4, hardcover.
- Mazis, John Athanasios (2004). The Greeks of Odessa: Diaspora Leadership in Late Imperial Russia (East European Monographs). New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-88033-545-9, hardcover.
- Orbach, Alexander (1997). New Voices of Russian Jewry: A Study of the Russian-Jewish Press of Odessa in the Era of the Great Reforms, 1860–1871 (Studies in Judaism in Modern Times, No. 4). Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 90-04-06175-4, hardcover.
- Rothstein, Robert A. (2001). "How It Was Sung in Odessa: At the Intersection of Russian and Yiddish Folk Culture". Slavic Review 60 (4): 781–801.
- Skinner, Frederick W. (1986). Odessa and the Problem of Urban Modernization. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-31370-8, hardcover. In the book The City in Late Imperial Russia (Indiana–Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies).
- Sylvester, Roshanna P. (2001). "City of Thieves: Moldavanka, Criminality, and Respectability in Prerevolutionary Odessa". Journal of Urban History 27 (2): 131–157.
- Weinberg, Robert (1992). The Pogrom of 1905 in Odessa: A Case Study. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-40532-7, hardcover. In the book Pogroms: Anti-Jewish Violence in Modern Russian History.
- Weinberg, Robert (1993). The Revolution of 1905 in Odessa: Blood on the Steps (Indiana–Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies). Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-36381-0, hardcover.
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- Herlihy, Patricia (1994). "Review of The Revolution of 1905 in Odessa: Blood on the Steps". Journal of Social History.
- Zipperstein, Steven J. (1986, 1991). The Jews of Odessa: A Cultural History, 1794–1881. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-1251-4, hardcover; ISBN 0-8047-1962-4, paperback reprint.
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- Official Odessa web page (HTML). Retrieved on April 29, 2006. Russian, Ukrainian, and English versions
- 2odessa.com (HTML). Retrieved on April 29, 2006. English guide on Odessa, Ukraine.
- Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1911) entry for Odessa (HTML). Retrieved on October 1, 2006.
- Odessa Globe (HTML). Retrieved on April 29, 2006. English-Russian e-zine and guide
- Odessa tour overview (HTML). Retrieved on July 3, 2006.
- Odessa links at the Open Directory Project (HTML). Retrieved on April 29, 2006.
- Zhenya Rozinskiy (1995). Odessit.com (HTML). Retrieved on April 29, 2006. English and Russian. Photo gallery.
- Personal Odessa picture collection (HTML). Retrieved on April 29, 2006.
- Pogroms (HTML). History of pogroms in Odessa
- Photos of Odessa by G. Garbuzov (HTML).
- Ta Odessa (HTML). Information (in Russian)
- The World Odessit Club (HTML). Russian and English versions
- 1982 Map of Odessa. berkeley.edu. Retrieved on August 7, 2006.
- Odessa Attractions (HTML). Retrieved on July 18, 2007.
- Interactive map of Odessa (HTML). Map and photos of Odessa (in Russian)
- Odessa 360 (HTML). Retrieved on 26 January 2008.
- Odessa for English Speakers (HTML) (2008). Retrieved on April 9th, 2008.
- http://history.odessapage.com Why are they named Odessa? History of cities, towns and villages named Odessa.
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