Matviy Andreyev

Odesa on a weekend

Matviy Andreyev

Got out from a train on 05:40. The city was pretty empty.

Street janitors resting on a bench. Staroportofrankivska street, Odesa, Ukraine, 2009

There were many cats and dogs.

A dog viewed through cat ears. Odesa, Yekaterininska street

A strange sign reading «house of teetotallers» but with a mistake and a misterious ellipsis:

An old wall sign: «house of teetotallers» («Дом трезвенников»). Mayakovsky street, 8, Odesa, Ukraine. A sign with a typo.

An unmaintained stairway to a cellar with a plate saying it was «maternity ward №2».

maternity ward №2. cellar door. Odesa, Ukraine

Dyukivsky sad park, nicely decayed. Had two ponds, remnants of strange buildings and unneeded vinyl plates dumped in the bushes.

abandoned cafe in Dyukivsky sad park
Spillway into a pond in Dyukivsky sad
Vinyl plates dumped in the bushes

Did a small tour of Odesa's beaches to see the ones where I hadn't been yet. A distant micro-district of living blocks was visible across the sea from the Delphin beach. The map said that the distance was around 11 kilometers.

Kids on a pier of Delphin beach of Odesa. Houses of a microdistrict visible on background at a distance

A pier on the Lanjeron beach.

A wave breaking against a pier. Lanjeron beach. Odesa, Ukraine

Odesa trams had more handrails than their counterparts in Kyiv: a whole lot of four under the ceiling, as well as numerous vertical bars.

Inside the 18-th tram in Odesa, a blurry image
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