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1794 – Odessa founded by decree of Catherine II of Russia. 1795 Population: 2,250. ... Commercial school founded. [7] 1805 Odessa becomes administrative center of ...
Battle of Szczekociny, 1794, by Michał Stachowicz. Kościuszko Uprising. April 4 ... Korenovsk founded; Kushchyovskaya founded; Odessa founded; Ust-Labinsk founded;
The city was founded in 1794 by a strategic decision by Catherine the Great to build a warm-water port following the conclusion of the Russo-Turkish war of 1787–1792. The new city, built on the site of a Turkish fortress, was initially planned by a military engineer and then expanded further during the 19th century.
In 1794, a decree of the Russian empress Catherine II was issued to establish a navy harbor and trading place in Khadjibey, which was named Odessa soon after. [11] [12] From 1819 to 1858, Odesa was a free port. During the Soviet period, it was an important trading port and a naval base.
The first and foremost church in the city of Odesa, the cathedral was founded in 1794 by Gavril Bănulescu-Bodoni.Construction lagged several years behind schedule and the newly appointed governor of New Russia, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, employed the Italian architect Francesco Frappoli to complete the edifice.
The reconstructed monument in 2010. Monument to the founders of Odesa (Ukrainian: Засновникам Одеси, romanized: Zasnovnykam Odesy), also known as the monument to Empress Catherine II of Russia and her companions (José de Ribas, François Sainte de Wollant, Platon Zubov and Grigory Potemkin), was a monument located in Odesa, Ukraine, on Katerynska Square.
The influx of Italians in southern Ukraine grew particularly with the foundation of Odesa, which took place in 1794. All this was facilitated by the fact that at the helm of the newly founded capital of the Black Sea basin, there was a Neapolitan of Spanish origin, Giuseppe De Ribas, in office until 1797. [1]
The city of Odesa was officially founded in 1794 as an Imperial Russian naval fortress on the ruins of a former Ottoman fortress named Khadjibey (or Kotsiubiiv). By January 1795, the new name was mentioned for the first time in official correspondence.