Underground Odessa

Odessa city has a layered history and at least a layered structure. In fact, the Catacombs - it's a whole underground city, Odessa-Underground, consisting of avenues, streets, squares, alleys and dead ends. According to experts, the total length of more than 2, 5000 kilometers (for comparison: the Roman catacombs have a length of only 300 km away, and Paris - 500).

1. The cost of this tour - 180 UAH (Near $ 18). It lasts more than 4 hours, and it's not sleek "Nerubayske Mines", but real, wild catacombs.
Safety - first and foremost. Helmet and a flashlight - it's part of the compulsory equipment, still need comfortable shoes, non-marking clothes and a light jacket. Temperature underground is constant all year round, about 17 degrees. I was comfortable in a T-shirt, but many were freezing. Elaborate on the street 30!





2. Log into the catacombs or tightly closed or masked to random people there were not included.



3. Sad urban landscapes revive memories of the failed nuclear war meet "Stalker".



4. In the 50-60 years of last century the world was already on the verge of a nuclear war. In the cities of refuge were built high security, which assumed survival of several tens of thousands of people. The meaning of this is very controversial, but always want to survive. Watch the movie "Letters from a dead man."



5. All inputs and outputs in underground shelters were tightly locked. People would have to be found here as much as enough supplies, that's just at the moment such asylum completely looted. Pillaged everything that could be sold, and sold it on the next street located no less famous Odessa attractions "Starokon market."



6. lattices in jail, in two rows.



7. At all lateral branches also installed sealed steel doors, if they are not able to remove and deliver to the metal.



8. pipes, cables and other things, the past 20 years fed hunters metal.



9. Under the ceiling were a thick, multi-conductor cable connection and lighting.



10. The system assumes a closed cycle of regeneration air and water.



11. The border around the edges of the road - it's not just one big bench, but duct. Inside it is hollow and it had to be fed warm air for a more comfortable human existence. He had to sit and sleep rescued lucky.



12. The half-buried hole in the wall marks the boundary of the catacombs and shelters. If you know the route, the catacombs, you can go to a few more such shelters.



13. In recent years, the city began a high-rise building and many of the moves were bombarded, what would they have not failed buildings.



14. First Odessa quarry refer to the beginning of the 19th century, when the construction of our wonderful city. Almost the entire Old City was built from rakushnika mined here. Stone quarried in this chaotic and haphazard. At first, it broke on the slopes of beams, then started using mine method, resulting in and get all these numerous and complex maze-quarry.



15. Stone cut like wood, on flat rectangular bars in the narrow and stuffy galleries, catacombs almost blindly. Now part of the catacombs flooded. Previously, the water was less, but every year the level gradually increased.



16. aisle seat cross ancient caves. They can be of immense length and depth. They are formed due to the dissolution of rocks by water.



17. Some of penetration because of this had to stop and go in another direction.



18. karst fissures in the trap fell ancient animals. In Odessa catacombs can be found bones of animals that lived tens of thousands or even millions of years ago.



19. Builders, during penetration was fixed ceilings tree. Now attach the stone and the tree ate pretty mold.



20. Odessa overgrown quarry infamous. In these labyrinths loved huddle and smugglers, and the homeless, and bandits, and other criminal personality, which is oriented in an underground city where better police, the Cheka, and then the police.



21. Another Catacombs attract not only adventurers in one place, and treasure hunters.



22. Odessa Catacombs continue to deceive their labyrinths are many people who want to wander around here without knowing the conductor, and thrills.



23. However, these "adrenalinschiki" often become hostages of the quarries, so a few times a year rescue teams combing the underground tunnels.



24. In such circumstances (complete darkness, high humidity, a stable temperature) is very difficult to keep the track of time and spatial orientation.



25. Sometimes lost in the labyrinths claimed that they had been in the "dungeon" only some 2-3 hours, although in fact they are located on the second or third day in the dead ends at the faces, where they wandered, following hallucinations (the noise of water, a sense of wind, steps, female voices).



26. During the Great Patriotic quarries are home to several partisan units.