Vulytsia Derybasivska ( Ukrainian : Дерибасівська ) or De Ribas Street is a pedestrian walkway (street) in the heart of Odesa , Ukraine . The street is named after José de Ribas , who was the builder of Odesa, the head of military and civil administration and had a house on this street.
10-455: Next to the street is Odesa's first park, which was built shortly after the foundation of the city in 1803 by the De Ribas brothers, Joseph and Felix (Josep and Fèlix). This park has a fountain, bandstand, and several monuments, including a sculpture of a lion and lioness with her cubs, a chair commemorating the famous book " The Twelve Chairs ", two monuments to Leonid Utyosov (a sculpture and also
20-515: A bad lead, runs out of money, ends up trapped on a mountain-top, and loses his sanity. Ostap remains unflappable, and his mastery of human nature eliminates all obstacles, but Vorobyaninov's mental state steadily deteriorates. They slowly acquire each of the chairs in turn, but no treasure is found. Kisa and Ostap finally discover the location of the last chair. Finally fed up with his deceitful partner's greedy arrogance and condescending meanness, Vorobyaninov murders Ostap in his sleep so as to keep all
30-451: A phone which plays his music), and a monument to Sergey Utochkin , a famous pilot. Derybasivska Street was previously named Gimnazskaya (Gimnazicheskaya) Street after the Gymnasium which opened April 16, 1804. It was renamed for de Ribas on July 6, 1811, being called Deribasovskaya or de Ribasovskaya or just Ribasovskaya. During the first years of Bolshevik rule (1920–1938) it was named after
40-400: A students' dormitory with plywood walls, posing as bill-painters on a riverboat to earn passage, bamboozling a village chess -club with promises of an international tournament, and traveling on foot through the mountains of Georgia . Father Fyodor (who had known of the treasure from the confession of Vorobyaninov's mother-in-law), their obsessed rival in the hunt for the treasure, follows
50-617: Is a Russian classic satirical picaresque novel by the Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov , published in 1928. Its plot follows characters attempting to obtain jewelry hidden in a chair. A sequel was published in 1931. The novel has been adapted to other media, primarily film. In the Soviet Union in 1927, during the NEP era, a former Marshal of the Nobility , Ippolit Matveyevich "Kisa" Vorobyaninov, works as
60-561: The Preobrazhenska and Sadova , crossing Italiiska , Rishelievska , Yevropeiska , Havanna , and Ivana Lutsenka Lane . Every year on first of April the Humorina procession goes the whole length of Derybasivska Street, which is packed with tens of thousands of onlookers and participants dressed in funny costumes. The Twelve Chairs The Twelve Chairs (Russian: Двенадцать стульев , romanized : Dvenadtsat stulyev )
70-531: The German socialist Ferdinand Lassalle . From 1938 to 1941, it was called Chkalov Street. Finally, on November 19, 1941, it was renamed Derybasivska. Derybasivska street was closed to car traffic and turned into a pedestrian zone in the spring of 1984. Prior to that, it was used not only by cars, but also by the city trolleybuses of route 1 and 2, which were moved to the neighbouring streets after replanning. Derybasivska Street runs from near Kachynskoho Street up to
80-543: The chairs. Bender's street-smarts and charm are invaluable to the reticent Kisa, and Bender comes to dominate the enterprise. The "conсessioners" trace the chairs, which are to be sold at auction in Moscow . They fail to buy them and learn that the chairs have been split up for resale individually. Roaming all over the Soviet Union in their quest to recover the furniture, they have a series of comic adventures, including living in
90-496: The loot for himself, but then discovers that the jewels have already been found and were used to fund the building of the new public recreation center in which the chair was found, a symbol of the new society. Angered, Vorobyaninov loses his own sanity. Ostap Bender reappears in the book's sequel The Little Golden Calf , despite his apparent death in The Twelve Chairs . The novel has inspired at least twenty adaptations in
100-615: The registrar of marriages and deaths in a sleepy provincial town. His mother-in-law reveals on her deathbed that her family jewellery was hidden from the Bolsheviks in one of the twelve chairs from the family's dining-room set. Those chairs, along with all other personal property, were taken away by the Communists after the 1917 Russian Revolution . Vorobyaninov wants to find the treasure. The “smooth operator” and con-man Ostap Bender forces Kisa to become his partner, and they set out to find
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