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The Potemkin Stairs, Potemkin Steps, or, officially, Primorsky Stairs 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.
  • Design: F. Boffo, Avraam Melnikov and Pot'e
  • Construction: 1837–1841
  • Opening date: 1841
  • Steps: 192
  • Height: 27 m
  • Surface: granite, sandstone
  • Dedicated to: Battleship Potemkin

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