UNESCO recommends excluding Odesa port from the heritage list
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Odesa seaport is planned to be excluded from the list of UNESCO’s world cultural heritage. The city received such a recommendation from the organization. Read UP.Kultura in Telegram This was announced by the mayor of Odesa, Gennadiy Trukhanov, reports Ukrinform. “We received a list of recommendations from the UNESCO committee, one of which is to exclude the Odesa port from the list of world heritage sites, but to include it in the buffer zone, where there will be restrictions on construction around the port,” Trukhanov said during a session of the Odesa City Council . Currently, the city is in the second stage of work on inclusion in the World Heritage List. The UNESCO committee provided Odesa with a list of recommendations, some of which must be implemented by June 2023, and the rest by February 2024. An information board about the inclusion of the historical center of Odessa in the UNESCO heritage. Photo: Suspilne Odesa Among the recommendations is the improvement of the condition of historical buildings and the creation of a comfortable urban public space through the cleaning of advertising signs, summer playgrounds, MAFs, air conditioners from the facades of buildings, etc. “We are going to develop a code of visual rules and standards regarding the appearance of the facades of buildings that have entered the UNESCO zone. We also need to create drawings and models of authentic fences, street furniture, flower beds and other types of urban environment in the historical style of the late 19th and early 20th centuries characteristic of Odessa.” – said the mayor. The historical center of Odesa was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List at the end of January this year. At that time, local defenders of architecture complained that they were not involved in the work of the commission that created the dossier necessary to grant the center of Odessa this status. At the beginning of April, in Odesa, in the presence of UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulet, an information board was unveiled on the inclusion of the city center in the UNESCO World Heritage List. Read also: What gives Odesa the status of a UNESCO monument: Odesa activists assess
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