Odessa: markets "Privoz", "7 kilometer" and others

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

Odessa is not only a large industrial and port city, historical sights, sea, sun and beaches. Tourists are happy to make a promenade along the famous Deribasovskaya street with its many shops, hotels, historical monuments, cafes and restaurants. But the markets of the city will really help to find out what Odessa is, the legendary Privoz, the Starokonny market and the famous “7 kilometer”.

Secrets of Odessa "Privoz"

The market is located 200 meters from the railway station. Once there was a square where the villagers brought their goods for sale. Hence the name of the market. In 1827, a decision was made to streamline trade, and rows and premises for the sale of poultry and livestock began to be built here.

After the last plague that Odessa experienced, the markets were burned. The capital restoration of Privoz began in 1902. One of the most interesting buildings was the "Fruit Passage" built in 1913 - a complex of four separate buildings connected by arches. After the revolution, there were attempts to rename Privoz, but the new name did not take root. At the end of the 60s of the XX century,market, a meat and dairy pavilion was built, and the territory was asph alted. In 1990, a general reconstruction was carried out, new shopping and office centers and shops were built.

Despite the large number of supermarkets that Odessa is rich in, markets serve as the main place for shopping. Only Privoz sells the cheapest and tastiest products: fresh fish, meat, butter, milk, various cheeses. In honor of the resourceful sellers, bronze monuments to the fisherwoman Sonya, the fish cleaner Uncle Zhora and Kostya the sailor were erected on the market.

Market "7 kilometer"

Sailors have always brought fashionable things that were popular with the population to the port city. Trade especially revived in the 90s of the last century, when people were left without work and engaged in entrepreneurial activities. Thus, one of the largest wholesale and retail markets in Europe, 7 Kilometer, was formed. It got its name due to the fact that it is located on the 7th kilometer of the Ovidiopol highway.

Developed area of the market - about 80 hectares. It has more than 15 thousand retail facilities, warehouses, 3 first-aid posts and an ambulance, there is a police station. The territory is divided into 4 trading thematic trading platforms. Linen, toys, souvenirs, leather goods are sold at site No. 1. On site No. 2, they mainly sell clothes and shoes from Turkey, Poland, and goods of domestic manufacturers. On site number 3 you can buy cheap clothes and shoes from China. There is also the Kharkov site, onwhich sells everything, including electrical products, household appliances, televisions, telephones.

There are 2 hotels and several cafes in the market. Up to 350 thousand people visit the market every day. There are 8 convenient car parks for cars and buses.

Old market in Odessa

Odessa Starokonny Market is located near the central bus station on Moldavanka. It was founded in 1832. At that time, the Bessarabian gypsies brought horses to the auction, the villagers brought cattle, sailors brought overseas birds and animals. A few years later, the city government decided to streamline the markets and transferred the trade in cattle and horses outside the city. Time passed, Moldavanka from a farm turned into a suburb, Odessa developed rapidly. Markets were popping up everywhere, so rows were built on the trading square to sell bread, meat, milk and other products, and the name Starokonny stuck to the market.

Currently it's especially crowded during weekends. Odessans come here to buy pets or birds, especially a lot of aquarium fish and attributes that are associated with aquarism.

Other markets in Odessa

Whoever visited the city at least once knows that Odessa is famous not only for Privoz. There are markets where you can make a bargain purchase in every area. They sell domestic and imported products, seasonal vegetables, as well as industrial products. The most famous are:

• New market - located in the old area of the city near the streetDeribasovskaya. It is very similar in color to Privoz, has existed for over 100 years.
• The Cheryomushki market - it was built on Kosmonavtov Street in the microdistrict of the same name.
• Southern market - located in a residential area of the city in the village of Tairova. Built over 30 years ago.
• Northern market - built over 20 years ago on the site of a spontaneous market in the most remote area in the village of Kotovskogo.

What other markets can business Odessa surprise with? Wholesale and small wholesale markets offer building materials, there is a large car market, a market for radio components. You can buy vegetables, fruits, meat, fish at the wholesale and retail market "Pochatok", and visit the book market on Aleksandrovsky Prospekt.

Odessites are proud that in this large port and trading city you can buy everything you need, and even a little more.