Odessa Gallery

The Cannon

This monument located in the southern part of Primorsky Boulevard near the City Council is called simply «The Cannon». This unusual monument — a cannon on a wooden gun carriage — is a battle trophy of the Crimean War of 1854. Its weight is 250 poods and the weight of the shell — 2 poods 16 pounds. It was dismounted from the British frigate «Tiger» that took part in the city during the Crimean War.

In 1904 the cannon was mounted on a granite pedestal to mark the 50th anniversary of the defense of Odessa during the Crimean War.

There is an old saying about this military monument. An innocence test. If a potential bridegroom was eager to know whether his potential bride was a virgin, he had to bring her to the gun. If the gun fires a shot, than her innocence was guaranteed.

• The Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater
• The Primorsky Boulevard
• Deribasovskaya Street
• The Potemkin Stairs
• City Council
• The Duke de Richelieu Monument
• The Odessa Archeological Museum
• Laocoon
• The Cannon
• The Odessa Sea Port
• The Leonid Utesov Monument
• «12 chairs» Monument
• Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral
• The Pushkin Monument
• The Count Vorontsov Palace and the Colonnade