Topic summary
Odessa
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Odesa.
Name
Odessa, the transliteration of the name from Russian, was the traditional English spelling of the city's name favoured before Ukraine's independence in 1991 (similar to the spelling of Kiev versus Kyiv). It remained the predominant spelling until the mid-2010s, when international usage began to adopt the official transliteration Odesa as endorsed by the Ukrainian government.