Privoz Market
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The famous Privoz market, located at 14 Privoz Street, is the largest food market in Odessa
, Ukraine
.
Privoz began in 1827, when wares were sold from the back of horse
driven carts.
Privoz adjoined the Stary (old) bazaar
(also called the Volny (free) market) the first bazaar in Odessa. Gradually more buildings were constructed as the city grew.
In the 1940s zoo animals were moved from the Odessa zoo to Simferopol
. Four year old elephant
Murza (Мурза) escaped. It ran to the fruit section of the Privoz market and ate several apples, pulled out pickled cucumbers from a barrel, tasted some fresh cabbage and dried fruits. Murza was caught and returned to the zoo. A popular Russian comedy film, "The Stripped Trip" was inspired by this incident.
A western journalist explained his visit to the market:
Privoz was also mentioned in The Odessa Tales
of Isaak Babel.
Odessa
Odessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,...
, Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
.
Horse
The horse is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus, or the wild horse. It is a single-hooved mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, single-toed animal of today...
driven carts.
Privoz adjoined the Stary (old) bazaar
Bazaar
A bazaar , Cypriot Greek: pantopoula) is a permanent merchandising area, marketplace, or street of shops where goods and services are exchanged or sold. The term is sometimes also used to refer to the "network of merchants, bankers and craftsmen" who work that area...
(also called the Volny (free) market) the first bazaar in Odessa. Gradually more buildings were constructed as the city grew.
In the 1940s zoo animals were moved from the Odessa zoo to Simferopol
Simferopol
-Russian Empire and Civil War:The city was renamed Simferopol in 1784 after the annexation of the Crimean Khanate to the Russian Empire by Catherine II of Russia. The name Simferopol is derived from the Greek, Συμφερόπολις , translated as "the city of usefulness." In 1802, Simferopol became the...
. Four year old elephant
Elephant
Elephants are large land mammals in two extant genera of the family Elephantidae: Elephas and Loxodonta, with the third genus Mammuthus extinct...
Murza (Мурза) escaped. It ran to the fruit section of the Privoz market and ate several apples, pulled out pickled cucumbers from a barrel, tasted some fresh cabbage and dried fruits. Murza was caught and returned to the zoo. A popular Russian comedy film, "The Stripped Trip" was inspired by this incident.
A western journalist explained his visit to the market:
Privoz was also mentioned in The Odessa Tales
The Odessa Tales
The Odessa Tales is a collection of short stories by Isaac Babel, situated in Odessa in the last days of the Russian empire and the Russian Revolution. Published individually in magazines throughout 1923 and 1924 and collected into a book in 1931, they deal primarily with a group of Jewish thugs...
of Isaak Babel.