For over a hundred years, several generations of Odessa citizens traveled to Arkadia by tram.. Trams were changing, the route was changing, but the final stop was Arkady.

She was called a garden, park, beach, resort. Decades passed, the names of countries that included Odessa — tsarist Russia, the Soviet Union, Ukraine — changed, and Arcadia remained Arkadia all these years.. I will not tell in detail about this wonderful place, for this you need a whole book.

In this small post I will briefly talk about the tram, in which more than one generation of Odessa citizens traveled to Arcadia. In numerous photographs and postcards of the early 20th century, the final stop was at a place familiar to inhabitants of Odessa. Approximately, in the same place as now - then there was a ring where tram No. 5 could turn around.

But there are few Odessa citizens who know that in 1912 the tram was on the right side of the road to the bridge, where the terminus was. The bridge was spanned over the gully, a ravine - rails were laid along the bridge and there was a fungus on it, about which the passengers were going.

In 1915, the tram line began to pass along French Boulevard from Preobrazhenskaya. In the early years of Soviet power, trams did not go to Arcadia.

Movement resumed in 1923, in 1930 the tram stopped driving to the beach (bridge). All this time the numbers of trams were different or not at all..

Tram number 26 A until 1931 went from Arcadia to Chubayevka. Until 1934 tram number 17 went to Arcadia from Tiraspolskaya Square.

Only in 1956 did tram No. 5 appear - familiar to all Odessa citizens of Pyatochka,.

which went from the Starokonny market to Arcadia. For several years the route number 5 was on the Novoarkadievskaya road (modern Shevchenko Avenue). But that's another story.

Photo of 1915, the bridge was built in 1912.