Editing Odesa (section)

=== Postwar Soviet period ===
[[File:RIAN archive 171693 Fleet of whalers lying up in Odessa port.jpg|upright|thumb|Ships at anchor in Odesa – the USSR's largest port, 1960]]

During the 1960s and 1970s, the city grew. Nevertheless, the majority of Odesa's Jews emigrated to [[Israel]], the United States and other Western countries between the 1970s and 1990s.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}} Many ended up in the [[Brooklyn]] neighborhood of [[Brighton Beach]], sometimes known as "Little Odesa". Domestic migration of the Odesan middle and [[Social class|upper classes]] to Moscow and [[Saint Petersburg|Leningrad]], cities that offered even greater opportunities for career advancement, also occurred on a large scale. Despite this, the city grew rapidly by filling the void of those left with new migrants from rural Ukraine and industrial professionals invited from all over the Soviet Union.

[[File:Russov House Odessa2020.png|thumb|The city is currently undergoing a phase of widespread urban restoration: Russov House in 2020.]]
As a part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the city preserved and somewhat reinforced its unique cosmopolitan mix of Russian/Ukrainian/Jewish culture and a predominantly [[Russophone]] environment with the [[Odesan Russian|uniquely accented dialect of Russian spoken in the city]]. The city's unique identity has been formed largely thanks to its varied demography; all the city's communities have influenced aspects of Odesan life in some way or form.