Mighty Priestin

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Mighty Priestin

One of the strangest places in the Luhansk region is the hills on the right bank of the Aidar west of the village of Novopskov. Here, chalk deposits, which in the river valley reach a thickness of more than 300 meters, rise to the surface, forming steep hills, in some places are steep walls. It is no coincidence that this place has long been called Priestin.

For thousands of years, nature has pressed into various conglomerates of sandstone, chalk, marl, limestone, various remnants of flora and fauna. And today on these hills you can find unusual fossils and prints that preserve traces of past eras. Samples of these peculiar witnesses of ancient times are presented in the exposition of the Novopskov department of the regional museum of local lore.
In this place grow some species of plants that are listed in the Red Book of Ukraine, which makes Pristina an interesting biological object.
At the foot of Pristina is a very rare historical monument - a cave, the creation of which dates back to about the middle of the seventeenth century.

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Mighty Priestin

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