Next to the Opera House, a little further down Lanjeronovskaya street, stood an oak tree with a chain grown into its bark. (Remember Pushkin, who lived in Odessa then). While taking pictures of the ...... "brick" road sign, I never thought the cult tree would be cut down, and the part with the ingrown chain will become a short-lived clowning decoration called "in honor of the 10th anniversary of Ukraine's independence". Thank G-d, this ugliness is also no longer around.