Peter G. Loboda is a researcher of ancient history of the Northern Black Sea Region and antique numismatics. He is the founder and director of the Odesa Numismatics Museum.
Loboda graduated from the Odesa Marine Academy and worked as a naval officer. Since 1970 he has worked on the seagoing ships of the Black Sea Shipping Company all over the world.
Loboda is an hereditary numismatist. He concerned himself with numismatics since the 1960s, paying special attention to antique coins. He is the author of five books and numerous articles of numismatics of the Northern Black Sea Region, and a participant and lecturer in many scientific conferences. He founded the Odesa Numismatics Museum in 1999 and the Gallery "Monetary Yard" in 2004. Loboda donated his collection to the museum.
Loboda is an participant in Odesa's political life. Since 1991 he has been the President of the Odesa City Collectors' Society. He was the Deputy of Odesa City Council (1994–2002), the Adviser of City Council on cultural relations (2002–2010), Chairman of Board of Guardians of Odesa Regional Scientific Library named after M.Grushevsky (1997–2000) and Museum "Christian Odesa" (since 2004).
Loboda is the author and presenter of popular TV historical projects: "World of Collections", "About what the coin has told", "Projection of Time". He is also the author and presenter of youth TV program "Club of Discoverers". He meets and talks with schoolchildren and students about history of the Ukrainian State and history of Hero-city Odesa on a regular basis.
Loboda has received government awards of Ukraine, Russia and Commonwealth of Independent States. He is the winner of Competition "Your names, Odesa" (2003). Honourable Medals of Odesa City Mayor (2009, 2011). Rewarded with Honourable Diploma of Ukrainian Parliament "For Special Services For Ukrainian People" (2004). Honorary Title "Deserved Culture Worker of Ukraine" (2009). Honourable Medal of Odesa Council of the Peace "For Humanism and Peacemaking" (2011). The winner of gallery of honourable philanthropists of Odesa Region "People of Generous Hearts" (2012). His educational and humanitarian activity was marked by awards of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, various Cossack's and public organizations.
The Odesa Numismatics Museum is a currency museum in Ukraine. The museum preserves and exhibits ancient relics from the Northern Black Sea Region and Rus-Ukraine.
FC Odesa was a professional Ukrainian football club based in Odesa. The club plays in blue-white colors. The club originally was called Dnister and played in Ovidiopol but after the 2010–11 season the club moved to Odesa.
Spring Rhythms: Tbilisi-80 was a musical event held in Tbilisi, capital of the Georgian SSR, Soviet Union, from March 8 to March 16, 1980. It was the first official rock festival in the Soviet Union and is frequently considered the turning point in the history of Soviet and Russian rock music.
Leonid Fedorovich Bykov was a Soviet actor, film director, and script writer. He received the "Honored Artist of the RSFSR" title in 1965 and the "People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR" title in 1974.
Svitlana Serhiivna Loboda, also known by the stage name Loboda, is a Ukrainian singer and songwriter.
Nikōnion and Nikōnia was an ancient Greek city on the east bank of the Dniester estuary. Its ruins are located 300 meters to the northwest of the modern village Roksolany, in the Ovidiopol district of the Odesa Oblast, Ukraine.
Nikolay Fyodorovich Gamaleya was a Russian and Soviet physician and scientist who played a pioneering role in microbiology and vaccine research.
The Union Concert Hall, Odesa is a public concert hall in Odesa, Ukraine built by the Mutual Association of Jewish clerks.
The Odesa City garden is located in town centre of Odesa, Ukraine, at the Derybasivska Street. Founded by Felix de Ribas in 1803, it is the oldest park in the city. Felix de Ribas was an owner of most of this part of the town, but did not have enough resources to sustain the expenditure, and so he donated the territory of the city garden to the city on November 10, 1806.
Khadjibey was a fortress and a haven by the Gulf of Odesa, in the location of the modern city of Odesa, Ukraine. Other known spellings include Khadzhibey, Khadjibei, Hajibey, Khacdjibei, Hacıbey, Hocabey, Gadzhibei, Chadžibėjus, Codjabey, Kachybey, Kotsiubey, Kotsiubiiv.
The Brodsky Synagogue is a Reform Jewish synagogue, located at Zhukovskoho Street 18, in Odesa, Ukraine.
The Statue of Graf Vorontsov, Odessa, is a sculptural and former monument established in 1863 on the Sobor Square in Odesa in honor of Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov, Field Marshal, the General-Governor of Novorossiya Region and plenipotentiary governor of Bessarabia who was a graf until 1845, then knyaz from 1845. The sculptor is Friedrich Brugger, the pedestal was made under the command of Sevastopol 1st guild merchant P.A. Telyatnikov. and the architect was Francesco Carlo Boffo. On 11 November 2023 the monumental status of the sculpture was scrapped.
The Institute of Democracy and Human Rights is a non-profit and non-governmental organization founded by Dr. Haass Social Assistance Fund on June 15, 2000 in Odesa, Ukraine.
Ruslan Serafymovych Tarpan is a Ukrainian businessman, living in the United Arab Emirates. The founder of the "Incor-Group" company, Tarpan served as a member of the Odesa City Council from the pro-Russian Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine from 1994 to 2010, and was heavily involved in the rebuilding of monuments in Odesa. In 2010, Tarpan began construction on a deep-sea sewage pipeline. The project, which lasted seven years and was never completed, ended in Tarpan and his associates being charged with the embezzlement of ₴200 million. Subsequently, Tarpan fled Ukraine for the United Arab Emirates, where he has lived since 2017.
In Sloviansk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, four members of the Transfiguration of The Lord Pentecostal church were captured and killed in June 2014, allegedly by members of the Russian Orthodox Army. The reason for the killings is disputed. TheIn a car of one of the kidnapped the money in foreign currency was found, which was the pretext to declare the Protestants American spies. Church officials believe that it was an act of religious persecution.
Konstantin Ivanovich Makarov was a Soviet revolutionary and Putilov worker, member of the RSDLP since 1917.
Neuland: Antireligiöse Zweiwochenschrift der Sowjetdeutschen was an anti-religious magazine in German. It was published by the Central Bureau of the German Sections at the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine in the city of Kharkiv. The first issue was published in November 1926, No. 2–11 − in 1927. In the years 1928–1929. 12 were published, in 1930–1933 - 24 issues a year, and in 1934 - 12 issues a year. The subscription price in 1928 was 25 kopeks per month. In 1927 the circulation of the magazine was 457, in 1928 - 1200, in 1929 - 1900, in 1930 - 2400 copies. The publication ceased at No. 12 for 1934. The chief editor of the magazine was Hans Gockel who was subsequently arrested in 1937 and shot in 1938, rehabilitated in 1959. The slogan of the magazine was "The struggle against religion is the struggle for socialism!".
Laila Seysembekovna Akhmetova is a Kazakh doctor of historical sciences, professor of politology of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, writer and researcher of participants in World War II.
Pavlo Kozlenko is a historian, lawyer, PhD, Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine, researcher of the Holocaust and Jewish heritage during Roman occupation of Ukraine during World War II. Director of Odesa Holocaust – Victims of Fascism Museum, vice-president of Charity Foundation "Memory of Nazi Victims" (2011–2022), member of Coordination Council of Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine, member of the Public Council of the State Archives of Odesa Region, elected member Public Council under the Odesa Regional State Administration of 2 convocations, poet. He is an author of books, scientific articles, and exhibitions about history of Holocaust, a participant of ethnographic expeditions to the former places of compact residence of Jews in the South of Ukraine, an active community member. Acts as an official opponent at the defense of dissertations, a member of the jury of the city competition of the Department of Science and Education of the Odesa City Council for the professional skills of teachers "Tolerance - the lessons of the Holocaust". President of the Charitable Foundation "Pam’yat. Gidnist. Svoboda". Member of the editorial board of the newspaper "Dobroe delo".