Attack on Odesa: about 400 apartments damaged
15 November 2024 23:22
As a result of the Russian attack on Odesa on the night of November 15, about 400 apartments in three districts were damaged. This was reported by the Odesa City Council, "Komersant Ukrainian" reports
It is noted that according to preliminary data, as of 17:00, 295 apartments in 35 buildings were damaged in the Primorsky district, 79 apartments in 8 buildings in the Khadzhibey district, and 18 apartments in 5 buildings in the Peresypsky district.
In Khadzhibey and Primorsky districts, the rounds of apartments are still ongoing.
In addition, the attack damaged the paleontological museum of the Mechnikov Odesa National University, the building of the chemical faculty and a dormitory, Ukrinform reports.
According to the rector of the university, Vyacheslav Truba, the paleontological museum, which is located in the main building of the university, damaged windows and glass shelves. Workers are currently removing glass from exhibits.
Also, according to the Ministry of Culture, cultural heritage monuments located within the World Heritage Site under threat, the Historic Center of Odesa, and its buffer zone were damaged.
In particular, we are talking about architectural and urban planning monuments and local history:
- the building of the Richelieu Lyceum (Novorossiysk University) (1852-1857, architect O.S. Shashin)
- zarifi residential building (1840s, 1851, architects N.N. Cherkunov, F.Y. Morandi);
- kovalevsky’s house and an outbuilding where the physicist, professor B.F. Verigo lived (architects K.Y. Dallakva, O.S. Shashyn);
- mashevsky’s apartment building, where A.I. Koptyukh was born (1850-1860, architect F.V. Honsiorowski);
- latry’s apartment building (first half of the XIX century);
- apartment building (late XIX century), where the Polish composer, conductor and teacher V.M. Malyshevsky lived;
- michelson’s apartment building (1890, architect L.L. Vlodek);
- inber’s apartment building (Savoy Hotel) (1870s, architect L.L. Vlodek);
- leonardi apartment building (1913, architect V. Prokhaska);
- the Weinstein School building (part of the Weinstein Mill complex) (1896).
It should be added that in January 2024, at the 18th extraordinary session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, the Historic Center of the Port City of Odesa was included in the list of World Heritage in Danger to preserve Ukrainian cultural heritage.
