The live camera opens a view of Yekaterininskaya Street in Odessa. The street Ekaterininskaya itself appeared among the first on the city plan. The street is named, according to some sources, in honor of Empress Catherine II, who commanded the city and port to be, according to others, it got its name from the Church of St. Catherine, founded but never built on Catherine Square.
In 1920, the street was renamed Karl Marx Street, and during the occupation was named after Adolf Hitler, since 1944 it was again Karl Marx. A photo has survived on which a plaque with the name of the street "Adolf Hitler" after the liberation of the city in April 1944 is torn from the wall of the house.
Since 1991, the street is called Yekaterininskaya again.
Yekaterininskaya Street can be conditionally divided into a fashionable part adjacent to Yekaterininskaya Square, built up with the best apartment buildings, with attractive architectural decorations, where bankers, high-ranking officials, merchants, attorneys at law, doctors, trendsetters lived; shops and restaurants for these individuals. And the other part of the street, where people with little income lived: petty officials, merchants, employees, where tenement houses were built without frills, were simple and intended for an unpretentious public, like the establishments located in them.
Most of the houses on Ekaterininskaya Street were built by famous Odessa architects and are classified as architectural and urban planning monuments of local importance. Architects V.M. Kabiolsky, H.G. Beitelsbacher, M.G. Reingerz, F.O. Morandi, G.K. Shevrembrandt and others from the famous galaxy of Odessa architects who left behind wonderful creations.
At one time, the street was planted with catalpas or a pasta tree, which received this name because of the fruits in the form of pods with seeds up to 40 cm long. These trees on the street have survived here and there.
In 1920, the street was renamed Karl Marx Street, and during the occupation was named after Adolf Hitler, since 1944 it was again Karl Marx. A photo has survived on which a plaque with the name of the street "Adolf Hitler" after the liberation of the city in April 1944 is torn from the wall of the house.
Since 1991, the street is called Yekaterininskaya again.
Yekaterininskaya Street can be conditionally divided into a fashionable part adjacent to Yekaterininskaya Square, built up with the best apartment buildings, with attractive architectural decorations, where bankers, high-ranking officials, merchants, attorneys at law, doctors, trendsetters lived; shops and restaurants for these individuals. And the other part of the street, where people with little income lived: petty officials, merchants, employees, where tenement houses were built without frills, were simple and intended for an unpretentious public, like the establishments located in them.
Most of the houses on Ekaterininskaya Street were built by famous Odessa architects and are classified as architectural and urban planning monuments of local importance. Architects V.M. Kabiolsky, H.G. Beitelsbacher, M.G. Reingerz, F.O. Morandi, G.K. Shevrembrandt and others from the famous galaxy of Odessa architects who left behind wonderful creations.
At one time, the street was planted with catalpas or a pasta tree, which received this name because of the fruits in the form of pods with seeds up to 40 cm long. These trees on the street have survived here and there.
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