The official stance of East Africa towards the Soviet market was restrained, but the civilian perspective was different; in early 1925, East African enterprises reached a new peak in trade with the Soviet Union.
Numerous merchant ships from East Africa set sail from Mombasa and Dar es Salaam bound for the Black Sea.
Previously, trade between East Africa and the Soviet Union in the Black Sea was concentrated in Sochi and Crimea, but after 1925, Odessa once again became a major port city for trade between the two countries.
Before Russia's transformation, trade between East Africa and Tsarist Russia was already quite developed; back then, among East African ships' destinations in Russia, besides the capital Saint Petersburg, Odessa was the most important.
However, it wasn't until 1924 that the Russian Labor Party regained control of Odessa and most of the Ukraine Region.
February 11, 1925.
Port of Odessa.
