The book describes many stories that took place in the city of Odessa in the second half of the forties, in the fifties and partly in the sixties. Separate chapters are devoted to taxi companies, the port, the liquidation of the “Black Cat” gang, the Jewish artel “Trudpobut”, schooling of those times and living conditions. Odessa black marketeers, binders, speculators and other vital phenomena of that time are not ignored. The districts of Odessa are described: Deribasovskaya, Peresyp, Moldavanka, Bugaevka, Kanava, Slobodka. You can now learn about many events and people of bygone days only from this book. Contains obscene language.