The 'Potemkin Stairs' are a feature of which Ukranian city?
Potemkin Stairs Potemkin Stairs The Potemkin Stairs, or Potemkin Steps (, "Potj'omkins'ky Skhody", , "Potyomkinskaya Lestnitsa"), is a giant stairway in Odessa, Ukraine. The stairs are considered a formal entrance into the city from the direction of the sea and are the best known symbol of Odessa. The stairs were originally known as the Boulevard steps, the Giant Staircase, or the Richelieu steps. The top step is 12.5 meters (41 feet) wide, and the lowest step is 21.7 meters (70.8 feet) wide. The staircase extends for 142 meters, but it gives the illusion of greater length. The stairs were so precisely constructed
Potemkin Stairs being extended, reducing the number of stairs to 192, with ten landings. The steps were made famous in Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 silent film "Battleship Potemkin". On the left side of the stairs, a funicular railway was built in 1906 to transport people up and down instead of walking. After 73 years of operation (with breaks caused by revolution and war), the funicular was replaced by an escalator in 1970. The escalator was in turn closed in 1997 but a new funicular was opened on 2 September 2005. After the Soviet revolution, in 1955, the Primorsky Stairs were renamed as "Potemkin