Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Odessa National Maritime Academy is a maritime college in Odessa, Ukraine. It was founded in 1944 as the Odessa State Maritime Academy and renamed in 2002. Odessa National Maritime Academy is one of the leading world centres of higher marine education that since 1944 is training skilled specialists for the merchant marine, fishing fleet, enterprises and organizations of the marine transport. Since the time of foundation the leading scientists and scientific schools of the Academy made a considerable contribution into the development of the native and world marine science and technology, training of specialists for the marine branch of Ukraine and many foreign countries. About 8000 cadets and students study at Odessa National Maritime Academy. The annual graduation is about 1000 specialists.