UNESCO designates Ukraine’s Odesa a World Heritage in Danger site

Category : International Published on: January 28 2023

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The United Nations' cultural agency, UNESCO has designated the historic centre of Odesa, a strategic port city on Ukraine's Black Sea coast, a World Heritage in Danger site.
The status, awarded by a UNESCO panel meeting in Paris, is designed to help protect Odesa's cultural heritage, which has been under threat since Russia's invasion, and enable access to financial and technical international aid.
It is located about 500 kilometres from Ukraine's capital Kyiv.
It is known as the pearl of the Black Sea.
The Black Sea stronghold town of Khadzhibei served as the foundation for Odessa, which was founded in 1794 on land that the Empress Catherine the Great had taken from the Ottoman Empire.
Seven other sites in Ukraine have been added to Unesco's World Heritage List, including the Saint-Sophia Cathedral in the capital Kyiv and the historic centre of the western city of Lviv.