Odessa, located on a hill, needed access to the seaside port. At the dawn of the Odessa sea came up almost to the very precipice of the future of Primorsky boulevard. Then the sea "pushed" Maritime Street and port facilities. Even after the departure of Pushkin in Odessa on the slope appeared wooden stairs. Giant ladder was designed in 1825 by architect Francesco Boffo, Avraham Melnikov and Pottier, and was built in 1837-1841 by engineers Uoptonom and Y. Morozov. His Serene Highness Prince Vorontsov ordered to build a ladder as a gift to his wife, Elizabeth, and it cost him 800 thousand rubles. Staircase built "onthespotwherethetrail", as claimed by the Odessa veteran Michael Deribas. To match the architectural design excellence ladder, mostly developed by engineers Upton. This giant, built of local limestone wedge resting on wooden piles and "slotted" three longitudinal and nine cross-vaulted corridors and galleries, which form at the intersections of massive pillars. Poles and support the very ladder: an inclined plane stacked on top of her stairs. Transverse cross picture formed on the sidewalls of stairs beautiful arcade. The evening of June 14, 1905 rebel ironclad Black Sea Fleet of the Imperial Russian Prince Potemkin Tauride "undertheredflaggavetheanchorattheOdessaharbor.Thenextmorning,whenthesailorsweretransportedtothesupposedlyPlatonicbodyofthemurderedofficer,oneoftheorganizersoftherevoltofGregoryVakulenchuka,aportonthestreets,slopes,ladderspouredfromOdessa.Whentwodecadeslater,SergeiEisensteinfilmedinOdessahisfilm,hehasconcentratedinthescenesonthestairstakesplaceindifferentpartsofthecityandcreateageneralizedpictureofbluntviolenceandbadofhumandespair."A child quite small, about eight years old. His fate is on the stairs is this: he and his mother stared at the distant battleship, and suddenly the soldiers came to the punisher - recounted this scene writer, literary critic Viktor Shklovsky - people ran, people started to hide behind a stone ledge, run up the steps. "ShortlyafterthefilmpoetNikolaiAseevintheessay"How to film"BattleshipPotemkin","claimedthat"the Odessa staircase ... the audience will not be forgotten."Pram,startedupthestairsofthegreatassistantdirector,hassweptthroughthescreensaroundtheworldandhasbecomepubliclyknownladderbegantobecalledPotemkin.Andthewriterswhowroteabouther,oftenalreadyrepelledbytheeventsdepictedinthefilm,substitutingthehistoricalrealityoffictionEisenstein.HistoryofCinemaandforevertiedGiantladderoftherebelliousbattleship"Potemkin".";"COMPLEX_CODE=