This article dwells upon linguacultural specificity of Odessa mythologems. They function as sample and initial basis for creating a mythological portrayal of Odessa, also of personages, statements, situations in the film story Odessa-mama by Efraim Sevela (1971–1988), that was based on I. Babel’s Odessa stories. In the text under analysis fixed Odessa mythologems form a storyline, that has conceptual and precedential meaning.