Nerubais'ke

The museum complex in Nerubaysky was created on the basis of a part of Odesa catacombs, in which Odesa partisans hid during the Second World War. Odesa 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 XVIII century. Abandoned fellings are connected by tunnels and passages, which Odessa residents broke through from their basements. During the Portofranco period, catacombs were actively used by smugglers, who could deliver goods from the sea outside the city. In 1941-42, 70 people of the partisan detachment left in the Nerubay catacombs carried out active sabotage and reconnaissance work, were walled up by the Romanian occupiers and almost all died. After the war, the Guerrilla Glory Memorial Complex-Museum was opened here. According to eyewitnesses, the situation at that time was restored. On an area of ​​about 1 thousand square meters. meters in the underground labyrinths are attributes of guerrilla life and samples of weapons. Patriotic inscriptions calling for victory over the Nazis have been preserved on the walls.