Langheron beach Live Cam

Holidays are the lifestyle of all Odessa citizens! Romantic acacia blossoms in early spring, lots of fun in hot summers, ripe fruits and colorful stalls in golden autumn, incredible festivities in cold winters. It is quite obvious that Odessa is happy to welcome guests at any time of the year and always has something special and memorable in store in the form of festivals, nightly events, theatrical performances, music clubs and endless fun. In addition, Odessa is the club Mecca of Ukraine. In the opinion of Odessans, the holidays are created to last forever!

The Odessa climate differs softness and an abundance of sunny days. In the summer owing to breezes, even in hot days it is not felt heat of nearby steppes. The curative dirt of estuaries and mineral sources involve to Odessa a lot of having a rest. The resort zone of Odessa was stretched on tens kilometers on coast of Black sea. One of the most popular resort entertaining areas of Odessa - Arcady. In its territory sanatoria, rest houses are located, also there is a balneary, a resort polyclinic, tourist base, hotels and numerous restaurants, night clubs and other pleasure institutions 24 hours working in a warm season per day. On all coast of Odessa beaches have settled down: Luzanovka, Lanzheron, the Joy, the Dolphin, Arcady, group of beaches of the Big Fountain, Chernomorka, and also set of beaches of sanatoria and rest houses. The well-known beach "Gold Coast", park, a huge beechen grove are in picturesque area of stations of the Big Fountain.

Literary Odessa. Seacoast near Odessa - original literary Mecca. You will get acquainted with places where were born Anna Ahmatova, Valentine Kataev; where lived Bunin, Kuprin, Paustovsky; where pages of satirical novels of "12 chairs", "Gold теленок" .в to port were born, will see unique Platonovsky a pier on which at various times worked as M.Gorky, A.Grin, I.Ilf, M.Zhvanetsky. Excursion by visiting of "the Literary museum" and its well-known court yard where there are sculptural groups of unique Odessa characters comes to the end.

During 6-8th centuries the process of both Slavs breaking away in the West and unification of Slavs in the East and in the North was accelerating.

The Northern Slavs, mixed with Tchud' ( future Finns) and Scandinavians found the Republic of Novgorod (New City) on the Baltic Sea. In the South, however, the merchant city of Kyiv was expanding its influence upon Indo-Iranic and partly West Slavic peoples. In the South-West (later Galicia and Bukovina) Slavic warlords conqured and integrated lands of White Croatians and North Wallachs (future Romanians) and the Slavic population partly mixed with them.

In the East, Kyiv was gradually becoming dominant among more than fourteen large tribe-unions. The semilegendary founders of Kyiv - Kyj (or Keji), Scheck (or Aschak) and Khoriv or (Alkoriv) are now considered to be from the tribe of Roxolans of Iranic origin.

The last princes of Kyiv of the Roxolan dynasty were Askold and Dier. They were murdered during a fight between the Pagans and Christians. The decisive role in Pagans' victory was played by a bunch of Viking warriors led by half-Slavic Novgorodian Oleh.

In mid 8th century Oleh became the first prince of Kyiv of Rurick Dynasty. Using mercenary troops, Oleh subjugated the rest of Eastern Slavs and enforced his power over them by a complicated tributary and military democracy system. Oleh also succeeded in managing huge military operations against Khozzars, a nation of Jewish origin residing on Volga. The Bysantium and all of the Western world was frightened, when Oleh and his armies appeared near Constantinople and assaulted it. The world was now aware of a new power in the East - The Kyiv Rus.

His wife, Olga, became the ruler. The Great Princess was the first to accept Christianity and thus establish friendly relations with Eastern Roman Empire. Her son, Svyatoslav, was a great military commander. He fought off nomadic tribes like Pechenigy and conquered Bulgaria. He was killed by a band of Pechenigy soon after his victory over Byzantium.

His sons began a destructive feud over Kyiv and it was the time of ruine, until the eldest, Vladimire the Red Sun, ceased Kyiv and became the fifth Great Prince. He baptised Rus' into Christianity in 988 and fought off Byzantinians, also secured Bulgarian holdings of Rus'.

His son,Yaroslav the Wise, ruled until 1037 and made up the first set of laws, came to be known as Rus's Truths. After his death a series of princely wars broke out and a new disaster came from the East - the Cumans.

The sixth prince of Kyiv, Vladimire the Monomach (The Single Ruler) defeated both his adversaries and the Cumans. He was the first and the last absolute ruler of Kyiv, but his attempts to bring Rus's princes back together failed in the long run. After his death in 1100s, The Kyiv Rus as a single entity ceased to exist and Kyiv came to be only a religious centre.

The states-successors of Kyiv Empire were the following - the Southern and Western lands were dominated of Galician-Volynian Principality with its capital first in Halytch and later in Khol'm ( Khel'm). Galicia is now considered to be the craddle of the Ukrainian (Ruthenian) nation, language and culture.

The North-East came under the influence of Vladimir-Suzdal' Principality, which is now considerd to be the first stronghold of the Russian (Muscovite) nation. The North consisted of entire colonies of the half-Scandinavian merchant empire of Novgorod, which itself was still a Republic.