Arteleriyskyi Park, Jewish cemetery and public park in Odesa, Ukraine
Arteleriyskyi Park is a green public space on Lustdorfska Road in Odesa, where walking paths, benches, and memorial stones sit beneath old trees. The grounds mix open grassy areas with wooded sections, and grave markers are still visible in several parts of the site.
The site opened in 1885 as the Second Jewish Cemetery and served the Jewish community of Odesa for nearly a century. Soviet authorities converted it into a public park in 1978, leaving most of the burials in place beneath the new ground surface.
Several memorial stones scattered across the grounds mark events tied to the 1905 pogrom and World War II, giving parts of the park the feel of an outdoor memorial. Visitors who read the inscriptions can piece together fragments of the local Jewish community's story.
The park sits on Lustdorfska Road and is easy to reach on foot from the surrounding neighborhood. Some sections have uneven ground, so sturdy shoes are a good idea, and the site is best visited during daylight.
Thousands of unmarked Jewish graves remain beneath the grass, left in place when the cemetery was converted in the 1970s. Someone walking through today is technically strolling over a burial ground, even though the surface looks like an ordinary city park.
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