Today I will tell you about the city garden in the city of Odesa. This garden has existed for almost 200 years and a huge number of people walked through it. But now my attention fell on the monument "Odesa Time", which also has a rather interesting story.
So, in 2007, a hurricane destroyed the local tree of love (that is, a very old tree on which residents wrote their names). After that, the local authorities tried to plant different types of trees in this place, however, none of them took root in this place.
It is because of this fact that in this place, which was very popular with all residents, the local authorities decided to create a new interesting place for residents. This is how the composition "Odesa Time" appeared. This monument is a kind of Big Ben. The sculpture is located around a two-meter clock, which shows the most accurate time in any weather.
Around the clock on which a small bird sits, you can see ordinary local residents of the city - people just dancing, a boy with a violin, as well as cats and dogs. Yes, all these characters are ordinary residents of the city and every evening in the city garden you can see couples dancing on a special podium, you can hear street musicians, and also feed street animals - cats and dogs.
In general, Odesa is a city of cats, and quite a few monuments are dedicated to them, which I will talk about in the future.
And this sculpture personifies exactly Odesans who have either been living here since birth or moved to this city a long time ago, like me. By the way, the clock shows the exact time, even today, during a full-scale war.
Another fact, the sculptures are located on the site where there are 12 confessions of love for Odesa by famous people - Zhvanetsky, Vysotsky, Paustovsky, Golubenko, Pushkin and others. It is written in various travel magazines that you can turn the platform itself and hear Odesa melodies, but I did not do this personally.
The architect who created this sculpture is Mykhailo Reva, and the opening of this place took place on October 22, 2015.
The sculpture is located in the city of Odessa, in the City Garden, located on Deribasovskaya Street.
The exact GPS coordinates are 46.485129, 30.735348
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I am very upset, last year I had planned a holiday in Ukraine, organized as a small tour of this country including Kiev, Chernobyl chis and Odessa, but due to some events that already I think persist for a year, everything has ruined.
The author of these sculptures wanted them to convey a very important message.
"but due to some events that already I think persist for a year" - don't be afraid to call a full-scale war a war, please. russia kills our citizens every day. It's a miracle I'm still alive.
I am sure you will be able to come here soon, when Ukraine wins, however, it is not a fact that all architectural monuments will be intact. Unfortunately.
And I just want to ask you to use - Kyiv not Kiev, Odesa not Odessa and Chornobyl, not Chernobyl :)
Thank you!
You are absolutely right, the situation in Ukraine is one of a horror movie you never want to watch again, I hope not too long from now I can safely visit this country.
It seems that the program with which I translate my texts fails from time to time, English is not my first language.
Have a blessed week.
The translator can make all kinds of mistakes, it's true)) I just wanted to explain it a little with the names of the cities
I hope that soon you will be able to come and see everything you wanted. Just like you, I wanted to go to some other cities in Ukraine, but for now, I'm not taking any risks and I'm sitting in Odesa.
When you are in my city, let me know, and we can go for coffee)
Thank you very much for the coffee invitation, it sounds good, definitely when I visit Ukraine I will ask you for some advice and why not we can even have a coffee.
I really pray that this nightmare will end as soon as possible.
I have to admit that I too have a fear about what is happening there and by the fact that I live in western Romania not far from the Ukrainian border.
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