Nerubaiske

The museum complex "Nerubaiske Catacombs" was created on the basis of a part of the Odesa catacombs, in which Odesa partisans hid during the Second World War.

Odessa catacombs are considered the largest and most confusing artificial labyrinth in the world - about 2.5-3 thousand kilometers. They arose as a result of underground mining of building stone - rakushnyak, which was used in the construction of almost all existing buildings in the city since the 18th century. Neglected cuttings are connected to each other by tunnels and passages, which the Odesans dug from their basements. During the Portofranco period, the catacombs were actively used by smugglers who could use them to deliver goods from the seashore outside the city limits.

In 1941-1942, 70 people of the partisan unit, left in the Nerubaiske catacombs, were active in sabotage and intelligence work, were walled up by the Romanian occupiers, and almost all of them died.

After the war, the Partizanska Slava memorial complex-museum was opened here. The situation of those times has been restored based on the stories of eyewitnesses. On an area of about 1,000 square meters, the attributes of partisan life and samples of weapons are presented in underground labyrinths. Patriotic inscriptions calling for victory over the Nazis have been preserved on the walls.