Voronezh, "Divnogorie"The natural archeological museum-reserve "Divnogorie"
Недобежкин Костя. 8Б класс МОУСОШ №12. г. Воронеж.
Учитель - Панцырева Л. В.
I would like to tell you about a wonderfull place. It is situated in Voronezh Region. It is the natural archeological museum-reserve "Divnogorie". It was founded in 1991. The territory of the museum-reserve includes lands of historic, cultural and nature-protected purpose with a special regimen of exploitation. The area of the reserve is 1100 hectares. " Divnogorie" is an open-area museum.Its sightseeings represent historic and architectural monuments: cave chalk churches of the middle of XVII century in Bolshie (Big) and Malie(Small) Divy; a cave church "Divnogorskaya-3" of the middle of XIX century; an archeological complex " Mayatskoye Gorodische " of the middle of IX-X centuries; archeological sites of the Bronze Age(2000 B.C.) and Upper Paleolithic Age; nature monuments - chalk columns- "Divy",unique landscape formations, relict vegetation, endemicinsects. On the territory of the reserve there are such museum objects as "Divnogorskoye Podvorye"-an ethnographic exposition , an archeological park - "From nomads'camp to towns" - the reconstruction of an early middle-aged settlement. The museum has a wide base for the development of different kinds of tourism: cultural, ecological,recreation, youth,educative and corporative. The museum-reserve has funds which include archeological and ethnographic objects, a documentary fund, geological, botanic and entomologic collections.