Potemkin Stairs
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Key facts
- Design
- F. Boffo, Avraam Melnikov and Pot'e
- Construction
- 1837–1841
- Height
- 27 m (89 ft)
- Surface
- granite , sandstone
- Dedicated to
- Battleship Potemkin
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Gregory Potyomkin
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Odesa
- Designed by
- Avraam Melnikov
- Image
- Потьомкінські сходи 11.jpg
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- Potemkin Stairs
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- Potemkin Stairs
- date of official opening
- 1841-00-00
- architectural style
- Classicism
- inception
- 1825-00-00
- native label
- Потьомкінські сходи
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Encyclopedic overview
The Potemkin Stairs, Potemkin Steps (Ukrainian: Потьомкінські сходи, romanized: Potiomkinski skhody; Russian: Потёмкинская лестница), or officially, the Prymorski Stairs (Ukrainian: Приморські сходи), are a giant stairway in Odesa, Ukraine. They are considered a formal entrance into the city from the direction of the sea and are the best known symbol of Odesa.
The stairs were originally known as the Boulevard steps, the Giant Staircase, or the Richelieu steps. The top step is 12.5 m (41 ft) wide, and the lowest step is 21.7 m (71 ft) wide. The staircase extends for 142 m (466 ft), but it gives the illusion of greater length.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Potemkin Stairs” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.