The historical center of Odesa was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

 "The historic center of the Ukrainian port city of Odesa has just been added to the World Heritage List, as well as to the list of World Heritage in Danger," UNESCO said on Twitter.

 In October, the Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, Oleksandr Tkachenko, announced that a dossier had been submitted to include Odesa in the list of UNESCO's world cultural heritage under the accelerated procedure.