Аннотация:This paper investigates the proper class of all metric spaces considered up to isometry, equipped with the Gromov--Hausdorff distance. There constructed a pair of complete metric spaces, X and Y such that they have no metric spaces at zero distance, no optimal correspondence between X and Y, and therefore no linear geodesics joining them, but there exists a geodesic between them of a different type. There also described everywhere dense subclass of the Gromov--Hausdorff class such that any two points at finite distance within this subclass can be connected by a linear geodesic.