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Odesa catacombs

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Bypass roads, city Odesa, Ukraine
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N: 46.538613
E: 30.626798
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Odessa catacombs is kind of a unique metro - hundreds of miles of underground roads that were created during the construction of the city.

Historians believe that the Odessa catacombs emerged as mine for the extraction of stone - limestone. The first limestone mining was begun in the eighteenth century. Now difficult to determine who, when and why give local quarries and ancient sounding name - "Catacombs". After the Latin word «catacumba» called underground maze where Christian communities in II-IV centuries fled from persecution of the Roman authorities, conducted the service and burial rites of the dead.

Odessa catacombs consist of abandoned quarries for the extraction of limestone and moves with the basement, so-called "mines" that occur in clay-loam. "Mines" broke through outside buildings where passing under streets and squares, combined with the quarry. Limestone quarry in the formulation is at the city center, Moldavian, large and small fountains, villages - Curve Beam, Nerubayske, Usatove, Kuyalnik etc.

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