Competition Launched to De-Sovietize Odesa’s Opera Theatre Square

Odesa City Council plans to restyle the Opera Theater Square. A total of 250,000 Hr. from the municipality budget is being allocated to an open architectural competition to source the best project design.

The winner will receive a prize of 125,000 Hr. Second place will receive 60,000 Hr. and third place 40,000 Hr. The jury also plans to distribute incentive awards totaling Hr 25,000, for the benefit of various competitors.

The competition starts on Sep 19, 2022 and ends on Jan. 27, 2023. Eligible entrants include professional architects, designers, students of architectural and artistic higher educational institutions, project organizations, authors’ collectives, as well as specialists in the fields of urban design/planning, architecture, landscaping and protection of cultural heritage objects.

The executive committee plans to include a requirement to eliminate elements of Soviet history. Competition participants are asked to submit proposals to move the Board of Honor to the Heroes of Socialist Labor of Odesa and the Board of Honor to the Heroes of the Soviet Union of Odesa to another place.

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Ugo Poletti

Ugo Poletti Ugo Poletti is the Editor-in-Chief of “The Odessa Journal”, online newspaper that was launched during the Covid-19 quarantine to provide news about art, culture, history, business and social life in the maritime capital of Ukraine. He is an Italian entrepreneur, co-founder of the “Rotary Club Odessa Internationa”l, dealing with charity initiatives. During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he wrote a book for the Italian readers: “Nel cuore di Odessa”, that was published in Italy, on June 2022.