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Melitopol

 

Melitopol is situated in the southern part of Zaporizhia region, on the Molochnaya River. Melitopol lasts about 100 km south of Zaporizhia, in a steppe region where vegetables, grapes, and other fruits are grown. Population is nearly 174,000.

Melitopol in Greek means honey town. However Melitopol is known not only for its fruit trees. The city serves as a regional and manufacturing1 center. Products include automobile engines, tractor parts, refrigerators, food products, and consumer goods2. The Tavrichesk Agricultural State Academy (founded in 1930), the Melitopol Pedagogical University and a region museum are there in Melitopol. As well there are several technical schools.

The vast settlement3 on the near-azov steppe was founded in 1784 as Novooleksandrivka but then renamed Melitopol in 1841. in the last few years the city has become an important industrial center, with a big plant manufacturing air-cooled Diesel engines which are used at the North Polar stations and on the Antarctic continent.

But the city is most beautiful in autumn when its markets and shops abound4 in fruit. The famous water-melons5 of Melitopol are most delicious not to mention6 the juicy apricots, apples and pears.

From Melitopol the road runs straight as arrow and the air grows warmer as one gets further south7.

There is the Askaniya Nova Reservation nearby Melitopol, which attracts crowds of tourists. The territory of the Askaniya Nova Reservation includes the virgin steppe. The research institute on the reservation is named after M.F.Ivanov, a prominent scientist who for many years headed the scientific work in livestock breeding.

The famous Askaniya breed8 of fine fleece sheep9, the Ukrainian steppe white and spotted10 pigs were raised here. Askaniya Nova also boasts of its botanical and zoological gardens where many unique species11 of plants and animals are collected. Here, under natural conditions, are kept bisons, hybrids of the bison and Siberian Capricorns (goats)12 rein-deers13, zebras, gnu and antelopes, the Przhevalsky wild horses, and also ostriches14, peacocks15, and other kinds of birds and animals.

18 kilometers to the north of the city of Melitopol, a stone hill of piled up boulders16is scattered. The people have named it Stone Tomb.

Weather-beaten for millions of years, overgrown18 with green lichen, these boulders, different in form and fantastic in their outlines, produce the impression of silent stateliness.

Many legends have been devised19 about this wonder of nature. Here is one of them.

The hero Bogur committed the offence against the God and the latter punished the hero by making him “dig out boulders from the nearby mountain-ridge20 by hand and pile21 them into a high mountain on the bank of the Molochnaya River. Executing God’s will, Bogur wrested out huge boulders from the ridge, carried them and piled one upon the other in place indicated by God: to fulfill this work quicker he resorted to cunning by piling them loosely22. When the work was more then half done, Bogur, when dragging up the boulders23, accidentally stumbled and fell through a crack deliberately left by him24 between the rocks, stuck there and starved to death25. Such a punishment befell him for wanting to deceive God. After that God told the winds to fill up all the cracks between the rocks with sand to cover the body of the hero Bogur whose bones are still jammed at present between the rocks. This place was named Stone-Mountain”.

Stone Tomb is a unique relic from geological and historical point of view. At present Stone Tomb is 12 meters high, and there are more than 3000000 slabs26 on the area about 3 hectares. Stone Tomb in the Near-Azov steppe played a significant part in the spiritual culture of the people in ancient times.

 


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