


In the niches on the left and right sides of the entrance are sculptures of Ceres (goddess of fertility) and Mercury (the patron of trade) made by sculptor Luigi Iorini. It’s usual ironic joke in Odessa that the patron of commerce is installed on the building, where the city power located. City Council moved to the building at the end of the XIX century, when it was build the new stick exchange at the corner of Pushkinskaya and Bunina streets. However, now there is also not market – there is located a Philharmonic concert hall.

At the front side of the monument written: “Citizens of Odessa to Alexander Pushkin”, and in the back “was built in 1888”. On the four sides of the pedestal jets of water flow from the fabulous fish and fall into the cup. Next to the monument can be seen “Pushkin sycamore.”

Cannon Trophy “Tiger” appeared on the Dumskaya square only 50 years after those events. Recently, after the restoration, the gun fired again – but not the cores, pyrotechnics already. By the way, once there in Odessa was another trophy cannon shot from which to notify the occurrence of the afternoon; however, it was not English, and Turkish, and stood beside the Duke.

During the last years Dumskaya square served as the dance school for those who wished, also there were cinema-translations during international festivals, meetings on topical issues to Odessa and the memorial of the Great Patriotic War. The square continues to play an important social role, but getting to it first of all comes to mind is the role of the aesthetic.
