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Style Renaissance and Beauty

IX International exhibition

 

August 26-28 2010

Odessa Seaport terminal

August 26-28 - 10.00 a.m. - 18.00 p.m.

August 28 - 10.00 a.m. - 16.00 p.m.

 

Exhibits:

Professional make-up

Machine cosmetology

Hair treatments and accessoiristes

Body and face treatments

Make up and elite make-up

Medicinal cosmetology

Nails cosmetology (tools, accessories, materials)

Perfumes

Tools, instruments and accessories for beauty parlours

Tools and equipment for fitness-centres

Spa and Wellness

Fashion accessories, jewelry.

Schools and personal apprenticeships.

Special literature

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Hot shopping of the day - Tuso.

Tuso is an abbreviation which means "Your universal shop of family

clothing". Attractive low prices, good quality. Men, women, children

clothes and underwear. T-shirts starting from as low as 2 US dollars.

Besides Ukrainian, Turkish, Polish, Chinese clothing carries such

brands as Collins and Seven Hills, for extremely low, competitive

prices (comparing to the brand stores themselves).

Where to find: underground road crossing from Deribasovskaya (main

street) to Sadovaya street.

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What to see in Odessa - HOT!

 

September 18 - a celebrated French comic actor Pierre Richard is coming to

Odessa! Performing in the Theatre of Musical Comedy, on French

boulevard (yes, French came to French). With his son, Olivier Defays.

In the play Franchise postale, performing in French with subtitles.

Tickets are priced from 200 до 1700 hryvnias (approximately from 25

US dollars to 210 US dollars). Pierre Richard is a world-known movie

star, a must to see!

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Odessa City Day Celebrations - September 2

 

This year Odessa celebrates its 216th birthday - quite a baby for a

Ukrainian city. Odessa City Day is a must to see, and many people

come to Odessa specially this day, to participate in celebrations.

Odessa City Council will be greeting foreign delegations and

ministers, who came to with the city many happy returns.

Celebration programme.

Officials laying flowers to the monuments of Odessa Founders:

J. Deribas, Duke de Richelieu, M.S. Vorontsov, G.G. Marazli

 

Where:

Deribasovskaya Street, Primorskiy Boulevard, Yekaterininskaya Square,

Sobornaya Square, Marazliyevskaya Street

 

When: 02.09.10

10.00-10.45

 

“Me and Granny Together” TV Project

 

Where: City Garden (Gorsad) on Deribasovskaya Street

 

When: 02.09.10

11.00-13.00

 

 

Odessa’s 216th anniversary celebration opening. Presenting awards

ceremony

 

Where: Dumskaya Square

 

When: 02.09.10

12.00-12.15

 

 

“Gifts to the Sister Cities: Yokohama, Regensburg, Yerevan” Exhibition

of Odessa’s artists

 

Where: Dumskaya Square

 

When: 02.09.10

12.00

 

“Fence Exhibition-2”

 

Where: Dumskaya Square

 

When: 02.09.10

12.00

 

“From the Past to the Future” Presentation of Odessa’s artists works

 

Where: Primorskiy Boulevard (near the monument to Duke de Richelieu)

When: 02.09.10

12.00

 

Performance by “Modern Play School” Moscow State Theater

Gala concert by “Modern Play School” Moscow State Theater’s artists

Odessa’s songs performed by the singer V. Kuba

 

Where: Pushkinskaya Street / Lanzheronovskaya Street

 

When: 02.09.10

12.15-13.45 and 14.00-16.00

 

„Karaoke at Deribasovskaya Street”

 

Where: Deribasovskaya Street / Vice Admiral Zhukov Lane

 

When:

02.09.10

12.00-16.00

 

“Big People’s Big Game” Chess Tournament

 

Where: square near Vorontsovskiy Palace

 

When: 02.09.10

10.00-17.00

 

Japanese Movie Festival opening

 

Where: “Masks” movie house

 

When: 02.09.10

16.00

 

Grand gala concert and fireworks

 

Where: Potyomkin Stairs

 

When:

02.09.10

18.00-22.00 and 22.00-22.10

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Free Salsa dancing in Odessa! Salsa Open Air!

 

Souls Dance Salsa school has free Salsa evenings, anyone can

participate! Every Tuesday, if the weather is good, in City Garden, on

Deribasovskaya, near fountain, at 7 p.m. (but people reported that

they never start earlier than 8 p.m., waiting for more people to

gather or such).

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Excursions from Odessa to an ostrich farm Savannah!

 

Ostrich farm Savannah breeds African ostriches and is the largest

ostrich farm in the south of Ukraine! Easily reachable from Odessa.

The farm is situated in a little Ukrainian village Stavki with two

lakes (stavki means "lakes" in Ukrainian). They started in 2004,

buying several birds from Germany, Ukrainian ostrich farms, and

Belgium ostrich farms. Besides ostriches, there is a mini-golf (with

tournaments) and a club Laser Tug Savannah, for laser battles in a

deserted garden, 40.000 м2 (not for ostriches, for people). Mini golf

is included into tours for free, if you want to participate in laser battle, you pay

separately.

 

Tours.

 

Tour the ostrich farm plus mini-golf, 2-2,5 hours.

 

Tasting tour.

Tour the ostrich farm, mini gold tournament (the winner receives a

prize from the farm), tasting (ostrich meat barbecue, omelette from

ostrich egg, mineral water, ice-cream), participation in a laser

battle (30 minutes). 5-6 hours.

 

Tour - laser tag in the garden.

 

Tour - laser tag on a specially arranged field.

 

Souvenirs.

 

Greeting cards "Ostrich farm Savannah".

Painted ostrich eggs.

Things from ostrich leather.

 

Every participant receives a free lottery ticket, for ostrich lotto.

Drawing of the prizes is every month, and the super game is on

October 2010. Prizes: ostrich eggs, painted ostrich eggs, things from

ostrich leather.

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Silver Spirit arrived to Odessa Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian

ministry of transportation. In its brief, the boat was called an

architectural masterpiece under the Bahamian flag, 195,8 meters long,

a creation go a renown architect Giacomo Mortola. The boat was set

afloat in December 12 2009, and it took eight years to build it.

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Running competition for toddlers "Mamma's little feet".

 

Welcoming all sportsmen and sportswomen below the age of two.

Running distance - 7 meters. Active support from papas, mamas and

anybody involved (without actual physical pushing), by voice, toys

and so on. The goal is to stimulate little dwellers of Odessa to be

active and to crawl forward. Every participant is receiving a prize!

Where: Primorsky boulevard.

When: September 2, 12.00

 

Reconstruction of a military battle from the WW2, with aviation,

artillery and armoured cars.

Dedicated to the memory of heroic people, who died in 1941, fighting

against ****es in Odessa: the garrison of the heroic 412 troop, 250

miners- volunteers, who lost their lives, saving the troop, seamen

and infantry.

The reconstruction included:

re-buring the remnants of the defenders, which were found during the

reconstruction of 412 troop site (now is a military museum under the

open air).

The reconstructed fight itself: an attack of **** Romanian-German

army, breaking the defences, close fight, the enemy retreats, attack

of the volunteers.

The entrance is FREE!!!

When: September 18 at 13.00

Where: Chabanka.

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Knight battles and medieval tournaments tours!

 

12th century fortress of Belgorod Dnestrovsky, authentic, situated on

the seaside. Spectacular view. Every two weeks - knight battles and a

tournament under open air. Ukrainian nights and foreign. A must see.

Check "my photos" for the photos of some of the fights.

Pay to get a ticket to the tournament. The tours of the fortress and

the fortress museum are free!

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Crystal Serenity is in Odessa today, which is celbrating its birthday.

Check my photos for photos of the celebration and of Serenity photo in the

harbour.

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all the photos are posted here:

 

http://odessainterpreters.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=5

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birthday cake:

 

flower exibition:

 

Primorski boulevard

 

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The fortress, the knights, the tournament.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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more photos, a whole gallery, are here:

 

http://odessainterpreters.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=4

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Safari in Askania Nova - meet zebras in Ukraine

 

National park Askania Nova

 

National park Askania Nova is the only place in European steppe which

have never been ploughed. It has birds and animals from the whole

world which live in the wild or half wild: more than 100 species.

They include: zebras, camels, antilopes, deers, ostriches, llamas,

Scotland ponies, tarpans (wild horses), bisons, bulls, saigas (a

species of antilope), gnus, and many many others.

The park consists of:

steppe (a place to visit to see the blossoms of

wild irises, poppies and tulips, see little animals like jerboa,

hare, weasel, birds like kestrel, eagles, marsh harrier and many

more). A walking tour on a ecological trail. Ends near Polovets babas

- stone statues, made by nomades-polovets about a thousand years ago.

botanical garden with the lake and rare plants.

zoo - mostly birds, plenty of peacocks, which are like pigeons

there, uncaged and do what they want.

Chapelskiy pod - a place which you can enter only with a guide and

where safaris are held. You can hire a mini-cab or a horse carriage.

This is where you can see all the unique animals like zebras and

bisons and tarpans in the wild.

Tip: hire a horse carriage, which is more expensive than mini-cab,

but you will see more animals this way. From the mini-cab, you will

see only distant waves of the tall grass, where the animals hiding,

and maybe a piece of a hoof and a tip of an antler.

but since they are not that afraid of the horse carriage, you will

see them all. You will be charged for photographing and video taping.

 

Some photos:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

more photos are here:

http://odessainterpreters.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=6

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Swim in a hot geyser

 

In year 1971, Ukrainian geological department send geologist to the

Black sea steppe to look for oil, gas and minerals. They found

everything, just not enough to start commercial drilling, and a hot

geyser. People os the village Obloi who lived nearby, started using

this geyser for swimming and the mud of this geyser - for body and

face applications, and soon all of them became young again, and ran

marathons at the age of 98!

In 2005 this geyser was opened for visitors.

The molecular structure of the waters is similar to those in Dead

sea.

The year-round temperature is +65 °C.

The swimming pool, added to the geyser, has the year round

temperature of only +45 °C.

The waters are beneficial to people with musculoskeletal diseases

(like rheumatism, arthritis), thyroid gland, nervous system and

respiratory tract.

It's forbidden for swimming to people who have heart problems, who

have just consumed alcohol. It's forbidden to swim in the geyser for

more than 40 minutes.

 

What - hot geyser

Where - near village Obloi, Golopristansli region, Khersonski

district

When - all the year round

 

Tip - take your old swimming suit if you go swimming in this geyser.

Due to the high amount of iodine in water, it has brown, muddy

colour, your swimming suit will be coloured the same and you won't be

able to remove the brown tint.

 

 

 

 

More photos here:

http://odessainterpreters.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=7

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Ostrich farm Savannah

 

 

 

more photos here:

http://odessainterpreters.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=3

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Odessa Saint Assumption patriarchal monastery

 

Started in 1814, on the land, belonged to a Moldovan nobleman

Alexander Teutel. He always wanted to build a church and a lighthouse

on this land, but could not find enough time to do so. Once, in the

dark evening, he lighted several big fires on the seaside. A Greek

boat, heading to Odessa, mistook the fires for the Odessa light house

and got shipwrecked. Alexander Teutel was devastated by this

disaster, gave a lot of money to the surviving seamen and decided

that it happened because he did not fulfil his pledge. He signed his

land off to the church, to build a lighthouse and a church house, to

prevent future possible disasters.

Since 1824, the church and the lighthouse were transformed into

Odessa monastery.

The monastery has got a XVII century icon with healing powers, relics

and artefacts.

The water from the monastery spring is said to be healing and

cleansing.

A good choir with a good acoustics in the church.

Monk Iona is considered to be a saint, so his blessings are very

sought after.

Tip: if you are a woman, do not wear pants, jeans, short skirts when

going there. If you do, a doorman will force you to cover up in a

cotton skirt, which he has hanging on the nail in his room, it's

slimey and of dubious cleanliness. If you do not want to wear a long

skirt or do not have one, take a big shawl with you and make an

impromptu skirt, by tieing it around your waist. They won't let you

in if you wear pants! In the church

itself, women cover up their hair with head scarves or hats, men, on

the contrary, are required to take their head gear off to show

respect to the God's house.

 

What: Odessa monastery

Where: Odessa, Mayachny lane (16 Station of Big Fountain)

About 20 minutes by car from the centre

When: all the time!

 

 

 

more photos are here:

http://odessainterpreters.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=8

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Odessa eating out

 

 

Breakfasts

 

Bar Morgan

 

Servers breakfasts every day from 9 to 12

They advertise any breakfast for 2,5 US dollars.

And any croisant for 90 US cents.

Scrambled eggs with bacon with tomatoes and paprika - 2.5 US

Omelette - 2.5 US

Cheese pancakes with raisins and sour cream - 2.5 US

Pancakes with cherries with fruit syrup - 2.5 US dollars

Pancakes with curds with raisins, fry apricots and sour cream - 2.5

US dollars

Free WIFI

Near Deribasovskaya (central street), five blocks away.

 

What: Bar Morgan

Where: Zhukovskogo 30

When: breakfast from 9 to 12

 

 

Cafe Compot

Compot is a traditional Ukrainian drink, made from fruit (dried in

winter, fresh in summer), boiled in water, with added sugar, and then

let to cool down.

Cafe Compot is situated on Deribasovskaya street (main street), across the

playground/skating ring.

They bake their own bread and pastry.

Breakfasts are served from 8 to 11.

Croissants start from 90 US cents.

A cup of coffee starts from 1.90 US.

They have breakfasts sets, for example, for 3.10 US you can get:

one cap of chicken soup and one crouton plus patte or

porridge and a cup of tea or coffee or

Rice and cacao or tea or

buckwheat and cacao or tea or

Pancakes with jam and cacao and tea and so on.

You can eat outside if the weather is good, if not - inside.

Tip: just next after Compot there is a restaurant called Steakhouse,

with a big cow in front of it, do not mix the two, many people do.

 

What: Cafe Compot

Where: Deribasovskaya 20

When: breakfasts from 8 to 11

 

 

Cafe Puzata Hata (Pot-Bellied House)

 

Cheap Ukrainian meals!

If you are on a budget, and want to try Ukrainian, go there, because

it's cheap and tasty yummy.

How cheap?

Breakfasts start from 90 US cents! Eggs, Potato cakes, lasagna.

Soups and borschs - from 90 US cents.

Side dishes - from 40 US cents!

Borsch, vareniki, golubtsi, buckwheat, cutlet Kiev, syrnuku and much much more.

It's a self-serving place, so when you come, pick up a tray. Load

while you go along the display, servers in traditional Ukrainian

costumes will fill your up. If you do not speak the language, point

at a dish and show a finger (not middle!) or two, to indicate the

portion: one portion, double portion and so on.

It's on the last floor in the mall Europa (Europe), a high building

next to McDonalds on Deribasovskaya street (main street).

Be adventurous, and do not run into McDonalds, as all the tourists

do, but walk into Europa and take a lift to the last floor, then try

the most outrageous dishes.

Free WIFI.

 

What: Cafe Puzata Hata.

Where: Deribasovskaya 21

When: from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.

 

Tip: the check out may be crowded during lunch and dinner hours, but

the seating area is huge. Take a seat near the window, you will have

a spectacular view on Deribasovskaya street, Odessa and even the sea.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Restaurant Ta Odessa

 

At the centre, not far from Deribasovskaya, near Mother-in-Law

Bridge and not far from Primorski boulevard and Potyomkin staircase.

Spectacular sea view. Barbecue. Live music - saxophone. Affordable

prices.

Tip: people complained that the service standards were dropped

during the summer season, with a lot of tourists, hopefully, they are

back again, now when the tourists are gone.

 

What: Restaurant Ta Odessa

Where: Gogolya 4

When: from noon to midnight

 

more photos here:

 

http://odessainterpreters.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=9

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Puzata Hata, Ukrainian restaurant in Odessa:

 

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10th Odessa International Festival "Jazz-Carnival in Odessa"

 

September 24-26

 

Different varieties of jazz, from dixieland to avant-garde.

Countries represented: Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Bulgaria, USA,

France, Italy, Soain, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Germany, Brasil,

Canada, Argentina, Goegrie, Czech republic, India, Serbia, Norway,

Netherlands. First-time participants are musicians from Denmark and

Tunisia.

This year, musicians will perform in Ukrainian drama theatre, on

15 Pastera street.

There will be Jazzohod - Jazz-walker - an open tram (tramcart) running

along the ordinary tram routes on Odessa streets, with a dixieland on

board, playing jazz!

 

Programme.

 

Sepetmber 24.

 

Opening of the festival at 7 p.m.

Jerusalem big-band "KleimanBand" (Israel)

Big band nu Nikolai Goloshchapov (Ukraine)

Project of Yuri Kuznetsov

 

Sepetmber 25 7 p.m.

Cie Trio d'en bas (France)

Plaistow (Switzerland)

Al Foster Quartet (USA)

 

September 26 7 p.m.

Sienna Dahlen Trio (Denmark- Canada)

Amine & Hamza Sextet (Poland-Tnusia)

Harri Stojka Quartet (Austria)

 

 

What: 10th Odessa International Festival "Jazz-Carnival in Odessa"

When: September 24-26

Where: Ukrainian drama theatre 15 Pastera street

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The Viking's Mikhail Lomonosov is in Odessa today. Enjoy your day and

nice weather!

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Reconstruction of a military battle from the WW2, with aviation, artillery and armoured cars.

Was presented in Odessa September 18, as per my previous post. Here are some photos:

 

 

 

 

More photos are here:

 

http://odessainterpreters.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=10

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Ukrainian national costumes.

 

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Hand-made Autumn 2010

 

Second Open Festival Hand-Made in Odessa

October 15-17

Theatre of Musical Comedy

Entrance - free

 

 

Association of Creative Odessa People "Harbour of Masters", Charity

"Sails of Hope", Studio of craft presents "Étagère" and others are

happy to present to you the Second Hand-Made Festival "Hand-made

autumn 2010".

Activities:

Master-classes - all the Masters will give you an opportunity to try

a new hobby. There are Masters of socionics, psychology, dancing,

health and beauty.

Exhibition - where you can see and buy all the crafts, presented.

Things for hobbies and crafts - embroidery sets, paper, threads,

fabrics.

Show - children and adults, modelling the clothing, jewellery,

bags, accessoires and such, made by participants.

Part of the collected funds will go to children in Odessa District

Oncology Clinic, so, when you are buying craft, you are helping

children with cancer.

 

A little bit of history: the first Hand-Made festival took part in

Odessa in August and was an immediate success. People came all over

Ukraine to sell their crafts. So, the organisers decided to repeat

it. This time, unfortunately, in a smaller building, so fewer

craftsman and craftswomen were accepted.

You can buy anything here, from exquisite clothes, bags, accessories

to hand-made pottery, jewellery, soaps, linens, all things for home

and much much more.

Craftpeople donate their time and materials to teach children in the

oncology centre how to make things. Their works will be exhibited for

sale, too.

 

What: festival Hand-made Autumn 2010

When: October 15-17

Where: Theatre of Musical Comedy, 3 Panteleimonovskaya street (about

20 minutes from the centre of the city by car)

Some photos from the previous exhibition

 

 

 

 

More photos are here:

http://odessainterpreters.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=12