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Odessa Catacombs, excursions/Одесские катакомбы

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Odessa Catacombs, excursions/Одесские катакомбы

Одесские катакомбы, Odessa catacombs underground The City of Odessa in Ukraine is home to more then one million people.

It is also where tourists will find the Odessa Catacombs: a maze of underground tunnels that makes up a distance of approximately 2,500 kilometers. Amazingly, these underground tunnels make up a large network that is hidden beneath the city. The Odessa Catacombs developed over a long period of time taking almost two hundred years to come to the level of completion you see today. This is not a natural phenomenon, but one that man has definitely had a hand in. Two centuries ago Odessa was not much to look at. Its development has been a slow process, taking many years to form into the city we see surrounding us. It required an incredible amount of mining and industrial work to take place, building and construction of the necessary buildings and infrastructure was required. Thus it was through this building process that much waste material and refuse was discarded, forming these intricate catacombs that you may have had the privilege of visiting. The catacomb is a large, mysterious labyrinth filled with hidden caves. At one time these dark and dingy tunnels were said to have been used by abusive slave traders. Today a lot of the tunnels have been reconstructed, allowing you to see the exact conditions that they were used in. Warning: You have to be careful you don’t get lost! Observe your surroundings and make sure you know exactly where you are as there are a hundred different ways to go in and out of the Odessa catacombs. Who knows where you might end up if you don’t keep an eye on where you are going? The Odessa catacombs also played an important role during the Second World War, being used extensively by the Romanian and German armies as a campsite. The catacombs proved to be a profitable site, allowing the armies to house enough food and weaponry to keep them underground for almost six months at a time. As you leave the Odessa catacombs take a few minutes to go through the museum and listen to recordings of events that took place in this maze full of history. You will also notice that there is a building that has been recreated to look exactly like the resistance head-quarters used during both World Wars. Something to keep in mind when walking in and around the Odessa catacombs is that it is not an activity to take lightly if you suffer from any leg injuries or physical disabilities. It would be advisable that you rather leave this excursion out of your ‘must see’ list, for safety, if you have such problems.

26/11/2014

Expedition to Turkey, Egypt, Jordan 2007

13/07/2013

Odessa Catacombs are a labyrinth of passages, between two and four meters wide, which run below a huge portion of the city. They were created some 200 years ago, when the city was actually built. Close to Odessa, at the city of Nerubayskoye, rocks were mined, which were needed for the buildings. Soon the rock outcrops were not enough and the rocks were mined underground. One of the oldest mining technologies is called room and pilar. To avoid the collapse of the ceiling only passages of a witdh between 2m and 4.5m were mined, the rock in between remained as a pilar supporting the ceiling. The result is maze of some 2,500 kilometers in length.

12/07/2013

If you want to see real Odessa catacombs, to learn about partisans fighting there during the WW2 and see with your own eyes their places of stay, you are welcome!

Excursions available in Russian and English.

01/07/2013

"MUSEUM"

Some old things can be found underground...

27/06/2013

21/06/2013

Одесские катакомбы – это уникальное подземное шахтное сооружение, которое было созданное руками человека. Вот уже более 200 лет катакомбы хранят загадочные события, которые происходили в истории и культуре нашего города. За время добычи камня, из которого строилась Одесса, эти шахты стали похожи на большой подземный лабиринт, равных которому по своей протяженности в мире нет. Много домов в Одессе было построено из известняка - камня, который добывали зачастую там же, где и строили дома. . В центральной исторической части Одессы, на Молдаванке просто невозможно строить высотные дома - катакомбы могут не выдержать. Одесские катакомбы, на 95-97 %, состоят из каменоломен. Остальная их часть- 3-5 % - это естественные пещеры, подвалы, бункеры, коллекторы и т.п. В пригороде Одессы и сегодня продолжают добывать известняк, благодаря чему протяженность катакомб продолжает расти.

Одесские катакомбы - место партизанской славы Одесские катакомбы – это уникальное подземное шахтное сооружение, которое было созданное руками человека. Вот уже более 200 лет катакомбы хранят загадочные события, которые происходили в истории и культуре нашего города. За время добычи камня, из которог...

20/06/2013

Катакомбы как они есть...

15/06/2013

10 Mysterious Underground Cities

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Humans like to build cities that reach for the sky, but sometimes they also build downward. Whether for protection, or just because they can, we've created many cities beneath the Earth's crust - or dug deep into the rocky faces of mountains. Here are ten of the most awesome.

11/06/2013

(Turkey) - Cappadocia - Land of fairy chimneys

Cappadocia; also Capadocia; Turkish Kapadokya, from Greek: Καππαδοκία / Kappadokía, Armenian: Կապադովկիա Kapadovkia, Persian: کاپادوکیه Kāpādōkiyeh) is a historical region in Central Anatolia, largely in Nevşehir Province.

Cappadocia, a dreamy slice of central Turkey dotted with ‘fairy chimneys’ (rock formations), has a history every bit as remarkable as its landscape. Volcanic eruptions created this surreal moonscape: the lava flows formed tuff rock, which wind and rain sculpted into sinuous valleys with curvy cliff faces and pointy fairy chimneys. Cappadocians chiselled homes in the soft rock, paving the way for cave-dwelling hippies and today’s boutique fairy-chimney hotels.

09/06/2013

Одесские катакомбы — сеть подземных ходов и лабиринтов под Одессой. Боольшая часть катакомб — бывшие каменоломни, из которых добывался строительный камень. В настоящее время длина Одесских катакомб оценивается приблизительно в 2,5 тыс. км.
Большей частью (95-97 %) одесские катакомбы представляют собой подземные каменоломни, в которых добывался строительный камень — известняк, используемый для постройки города. Также в систему катакомб входят полости естественного происхождения — карстовые и дилатансионные пещеры, геологоразведочные и строительные шурфы, подвалы, бункеры, дренажные тоннели, ливневые коллекторы и прочие подземные полости.

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