Bolshevik (Odessa region)

The first known settlements appeared here in the first half of the XIX century, forming two suburbs. The closest to the sea was called Baltovskaya Slobodka or Baltovka. The second settlement was inhabited mainly by retired soldiers, and it was called Soldatskaya Slobodka. Today it is Zhevakhovsky settlement .

Even in the pre-revolutionary period, this area was famous for its industry: here were the famous Trepel Brewery, Smith's large kostopalny factory, Weinstein, Risman and Dashevsky industrial leather factories, Umansky shoe factory, a small candle factory of the Balt Church. However, all these enterprises could not be compared with the power of the cork-linoleum factory of Wikander and Larson , to which the railway branch was soon connected. This company, renamed after the revolution in the plant "Bolshevik", and gave the name of the village.

In the post-Soviet period, the plant ceased to function, and its numerous buildings gradually turned into real ruins. Following this, the village itself began to decline. Today, the "Bolshevik" is one of the least comfortable urban neighborhoods.

The housing stock is represented mainly by the private sector, but in the center of the village, although in a deplorable state, there is a real museum of Soviet architecture in the open. In 1937, a huge residential building in the style of the Stalin Empire style was erected here. There are other "Stalin", simpler and without the "architectural excesses", built in the 1950s for transitional projects. There are quite a lot of two-storey buildings of the barrack type of the same time of construction. The majestic 4-storey building of the hostel of the Bolshevik plant continues the theme of Stalinist architecture - the earlier construction of the early 1930s in the style of rather rare constructivism in Odessa .

Zhevakhov Mountain is a relatively small clay hill, towering 40 meters above the sea. From the mountain there is an excellent view of the Peretz , the center of Odessa , the bay and both estuaries.

In the 5th – 4th c. BC er on the mountain was an ancient Greek settlement, the largest in the Northern Black Sea region and the grandiose sanctuary of the goddess Demeter , discovered by archaeologists. Generally, as an archaeological site, the mountain has been known since the end of the 18th century. In 1902, one of the mounds was torn down and accidentally discovered Greek amphoras of the 5th century there. BC er And the first finds of ancient time on this monument were made back in the 1820s. Basically, the amphoras found on the mountain date back to the end of the 5th - the beginning of the 4th century. BC er

Before the storming of Khadzhibey, the Cossacks called Dovga Tomb mountain. Just before the storming of the fortress, Admiral Joseph de Ribas ordered the Cossack ataman Zacharia Chepiga : “It is necessary to be ready for the march of horsemen and pedestrians in your team, and about the fourth hour to leave the gully to the Long Tomb”. The mountain got its present name in honor of General Javakhishvili (Prince Zhevakhov), who had an estate here in the 19th century. According to other sources, it was Princess Ekaterina Zhevakhova.

Nowadays, Zhevakhov Mountain is used for grazing by residents of the adjacent areas of the city (around the mountain is almost exclusively the private sector and industrial zone), clay mining and landfills. In the northern part of the automobile market is located "Pit" (the official name is "Kuyalnik") - the market is located in the recess on the plateau of the mountain.

In the village of Bolshevik there are 105 taxis, its terminal one is almost near the railway tracks on the lower Bolshevik, and terminal 2 is on the upper Bolshevik, there are food stores, a pharmacy, a stall with vegetables and fruits and a small cozy kindergarten nearby.

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• Places of Odessa. The mountains. Zhevakhova
• Purely Odessa site
• 2GIS Odessa