Privoz began in 1827, when wares were sold from the back of horse driven carts. The market was a large area where carts with goods that were sold at the localbazaar stopped. The place was rather dirty, unpaved area without capital buildings. Until the mid-1860s, the wheel dealers did not pay a market fee. Also, there was no own institution of measures and weights as in the ordinary market of those times. Privoz adjoined the Stary bazaar, the first bazaar in Odessa. The market was burned due to the outbreak of the plague and rebuilt in 1902. In 1904, the only architectural monument was built here - the Fruit Passage. Designed by the famous city architect Fedor Pavlovich Nesturkh, the Passage represented covered shopping galleries with arched entrances. In 2007, a meat and fish corps appeared, after which a shopping center called “New Privoz” was built. Now the Odessa market is being restored and modified again, but it still does not lose its color and remains a place where they not only sell and buy, but also exchange the latest news.
Stories
In the 1940s zoo animals were moved from the Odessa zoo to Simferopol. Four-year-old elephant Murza escaped. It ran to the fruit section of the Pryvoz Market and ate several apples, pulled out pickled cucumbers from a barrel, and tasted some fresh cabbage and dried fruits. Murza was caught and returned to the zoo. A popular Soviet comedy film, Striped Trip was inspired by this incident. In the 20s of the XX century, Privoz was led by the famous fraudster Jacob Pireman. One say he bought this post for a considerable bribe. Having become the head of the market, Pireman imposed a personal tribute to all merchants, and he also took hundreds of thousands of budget rubles to reconstruct the market and stole them. When Pireman's scam was uncovered, he was tried and shot. But one say that before the arrest, he hid a treasure - gold coins and diamonds on Privoz.
People
A western journalist explained his visit to the market: Privoz was also mentioned in The Odessa Tales of Isaak Babel.
