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The supervisor of the SeaLiT project Dr Apostolos Delis and Post Doc researcher Dr Anna Sydorenko paid their first working visit to the State Archives of Odessa Region, Ukraine in the context of the presentation of the project and conducting archival research. During their stay at Odessa, both researchers were guided by historian and senior researcher of the Odessa Archive, Sergey Berezin, in the historical part of the old maritime Odessa. They also had the opportunity to meet with the director of the Hellenic Foundation for Culture Dr. Sofronis Paradeisopoulos. The Hellenic Foundation for Culture is housed in the historical building once belonged to the Greek merchant Grigorios Marazlis, and constituted the headquarters of the secret society Filiki Eteria, which was instrumental in the ideological preparation of the Greek War of Independance.