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Of the attractions of Odessa this is all the more romantic. Vorontsov lighthouse is the third century greets the sailors and separated from the open elements of the city, soaked in the sea.





Even the current dazzling white lighthouse between the blue sea and the blue sky is very romantic. But the old cast-iron remembers Odessa Vorontsov lighthouse, representing the sea the city from 1888 to 1941. This lighthouse was made of cast iron, and at the top it was installed in the lighting apparatus, specially ordered from Paris. In the then not a multi-storey Odessa lighthouse was visible from different points of the city, and then the red, then the green light was accompanied by an evening stroll on the promenade of Odessa.





In the beginning of the great Patriotic war, the lighthouse has become the symbol of Odessa, was destroyed. Soviet troops were forced to blow up a high cast-iron tower: it was too good a sight for the enemy served as a lighthouse, far jutting out into the sea on the long Quarantine mole.





In place of the destroyed in 1941, the lighthouse in 1954 set a new. For this I had to restore and a long pier. Completed, it was renamed the RAID. The present lighthouse, a white krasnogorje column height of 26 meters. It can be seen for 15 nautical miles, and it still serves the sailors.

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