The Odessa Steps In Sergei Eisenstein's classic 1925 silent epic "Battleship Potemkin," there is an infamous sequence known as "The Odessa Steps." The film tells the story of the Russian seamen ...

Our 2004 copy of Lonely Planet told us that it was “possible to travel across the Black Sea from Istanbul to Odessa by ferry, but don’t bother, it’s too difficult”. It gave the phone number of one ...