Odessa City Hall
Odessa City Hall is the city hall of Odessa, Ukraine, located at the junction of Primorskiy Boulevard, Chaikovskogo Lane and Pushkinska Street. It occupies a Neoclassical building, built to a design by Francesco Boffo and Gregorio Toricelli in 1828-34.
Description
The frontage features two large statues depicting Ceres and Mercury in their roles as the goddess of agriculture and the god of trade respectively, marking the buildings original purpose as an Exchange.
Every half-hour, the clock above the entrance chimes the melody "Odessa my town" (the same tune greeting incoming trains at the Odessa Train Station). This is from the operetta White Acacia by the Soviet composer Isaac Dunayevsky.[1]
In front of the building is a small square called "Dumaskaya", containing a monument to Alexander Pushkin who spent 13 months in Odessa,[2] and a naval gun recovered from the British frigate HMS Tiger, that grounded and was sunk near the town during the Crimean War.
Storm of the Odessa City Hall
On December 21, 2012 big fighting occurred at the doors of the Odessa City Hall.[3] Three members of law enforcement were reported to have been hospitalized with minor injuries.[4] The city mayor Oleksiy Kostusyev in his official announcement that fighters from Svoboda equipped with non-firing weapons engaged in fight with the building security and tried to disrupt work of the city council.[5] Kostusyev also used term fashistvuyushchie (a new invented term meaning fascists that cause a havoc) and called the people "not quite vanished successors of fascism". The mayor city explained the reasons for those actions were intentions to prevent renaming a city street after the Soviet Army. He also claimed that his announcement was supported unanimously by all council members.
According to the official press release of Svoboda, the protest event took place after one of members of the city council was not allowed to participate in a session.[3] In the statement Svoboda claimed that the member of council had intention to address the session of council in regards to recent events connected with local markets and role of the city authorities in a city life.[3][6] Supposedly there is a supporting document adopted by the council about not allowing the particular member of council to participate in its sessions.[3] The region prosecutor's office was scheduled to conduct an investigation.[7]
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Clock
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Ceres
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Mercury
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- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Svoboda and entrepreneurs stormed the Odessa City Hall. Ukrayinska Pravda. 2012-12-21
- ↑ Odessa City Hall Security hospitalized. Ukrayinska Pravda. 2012-12-21
- ↑ Appeal of the Odessa City Council to the citizens of Odessa. Official website of the Odessa city. 2012-12-21
- ↑ Protest near the Odessa city hall. Official website of the Svoboda party. 2012-12-21
- ↑ The office of prosecutor undertook the case connected with the storm of the Odessa city council by Svoboda. Ukrayinska Pravda. 2012-12-21
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