Before the revolution in Odessa, there was a whole street of red-light districts, on which there were many brothels of different price categories. Krivaya-Proviantskaya Street was famous for its extremely high concentration per unit area of ​​yellow houses with red lanterns - brothels. There were no more than one and a half dozen legal brothels in the city, and almost all of them were located on Krivaya Street. After the street was renamed Proviantskaya, all establishments were transferred to Moldavanka by order of the authorities.