Running alongside the Potemkin Stairs, it connects the Prymorskyi Boulevard with the Port of Odesa.

Then in 1998 the city council decided to restore the service, this time in the form of an inclined elevator.

Construction started in the same year but was delayed until 2005, and the ropeway was reopened on 2 September 2005.

[3] Located in the old town, the central city district, the line starts at the Primorsky Boulevard (Primorsky Bulvar), in which lies the upper station, close to the Opera Theater.

Originally built with a single track and a passing loop in the middle, it now has two metre gauge[citation needed] tracks and runs for 130 metres (430 ft)[1] alongside the Potemkin Stairs and Stambulsky Park.