Talk:Odesa catacombs

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This article, although informative, appears to have been written by the speaker of the Russian language.... 82.69.88.230 (talk) 14:54, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Although widely believed locally, it's doubtful as stated in the article that the Catacombs are a serious impediment to a subway system. Subways are routinely built in much worse conditions and much deeper excavations, even underneath major water features, and limestone is actually very conducive to tunneling (as evidenced by the very existence of the Catacombs in the first place.) More likely such a system is just economically infeasible because Odessa isn't large enough to make it worth the investment. Dnipropetrovsk is the smallest city in Ukraine to have any sort of underground system, and it is a town of similar population but considerably larger area. Even so, that system only has 6 stations and 8km of track, making it one of the smallest underground systems in the world and a questionable cost/benefit ratio. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.60.161.98 (talk) 18:18, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Contradiction!
"It is thought that 100% of the catacombs are former sandstone multilevel mines from which stone was extracted to construct the city above. The remaining catacombs (3-5%) ...".--rossb (talk) 22:30, 26 September 2016 (UTC)