Attractions of Odesa district

The Wax Figures Museum "Baba Utya" was founded by Oleksandr Pavlovsky in 1998 in the very center of Odesa, opposite the Opera House.

This is an analogue of the London Madame Tussauds Museum. Here you can see many celebrities made of wax. The first exhibits of the museum were wax copies of Yosyp de Ribas, Duke de Rishelye, Count Oleksandr Lanzheron. Over time, the collection was replenished with other figures, the exposition is constantly updated and expanded. Currently, the museum presents more than 60 wax figures thematically arranged and exhibited in separate halls.

The museum "Baba Utya" also has a reduced copy of the most famous street in Odesa - Derybasivska, as well as an art gallery. Excursions are held, during which visitors are introduced to all the figures of the museum and told about all the subtleties and secrets of creating wax figures. You can also try creating a figure yourself using wax.

Excavations at the site of the hillfort, which some researchers also associate with the 18th century Turkish fortress of Yeni-Dunya.

The hillfort is located near Cape Sychavskyi to the west of the mouth of the Tylihul estuary, near the Pivdenne city and the Koshary village.

According to one version, the Koshary settlement is much older, and it can be identified with the ancient city of Odesos, which gave its name to the present Odesa.

The Zoological Museum is a structural unit of the Biology Faculty of the Odesa National University named after Ilya Mechnykov.

The museum collections of the current Zoological Museum began to form even before the official opening of the university in 1865. For more than 33 years, natural objects were collected for the natural history department of the Ryshelevsky Lyceum, on the basis of which the university was founded. The most valuable were the collections of Professor Oleksandr Nordman, a famous researcher of the fauna of the Black Sea region, who headed the museum in 1862.

The Zoological Museum is located in the building of the Biology Faculty of the university, where it occupies 3 exhibition halls with a total area of ​​1000 square meters. The museum fund consists of 56 thousand storage units, of which 7.5 thousand exhibits are presented in the exposition.