Staying in Odessa on a working visit, the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko together with the mayor of Odessa Gennadiy Trukhanov visited the restored Palace of Marriages near the Opera Theatre on May 26, 2017.

 
The President of Ukraine congratulated the first couple of newlyweds - combatant in the ATO area Sergei Timanovskiy and the volunteer Irina Stasyuk with the marriage. Young people met in July 2015, when Sergei was on rotation in the Donetsk region, and Irina as a volunteer who actively helped his subdivision. The President of Ukraine presented the first newlyweds a certificate for a two-room apartment.