Odessa

Odessa is a city in southwestern Ukraine, a major port on the Black Sea, and the administrative centre of the country's Odessa Oblast. Odessa population in 2004 was 1,012,500. Odessa was a free port (porto franco) from 1819–1858. During the Soviet period Odessa was the most important port of trade in the U.S.S.R. and a Soviet naval base. On January 1, 2000 the Quarantine Pier of Odessa trade se ...

Date added: 29 April '06