The village history.
From may to July of this year thousands of Internet users and ten members of the expert Council chose among the Ukrainian villages the most amazing
Estimated tourist attraction — history and attractions, as well as the development of local businesses, not directly associated with agriculture. The competition organized by the Association “Ukrainian club of agrarian business” and agroportal.ua ended July 30: the town, the first place winner received a prize of 50 thousand UAH, the second winner got 20 thousand UAH, the third — 10 thousand UAH, and the rest received consolation prizes of 3 thousand UAH.
An urban-type settlement of Klevan
Rivne region, Rivne district. Final score: 18108*
Among the attractions are modest at first glance the village the castle Czartoryski, built in 1495 and connected by underground passages with the Lutsk castle, lake Bezodnya, chalk mountain, which became a nesting place for many birds, and the famous Tunnel of Love — the four-kilometer-long railway, passing under the thick arch of the crowns of trees.
Lazeshchyna
Transcarpathian region, Rakhiv district. Final score: 15308
The village, the first mention of which dates from 1555 year, is at a height of 706 m above sea level, is one of the most mountainous settlements of Ukraine. The main attractions Lazeshchyna — Church of the Transfiguration, built in 1780, the ethnographic Museum and ski trail.
Husarka Village
Zaporizhzhia oblast, the Kuibyshev district. Final score: 11897
Most of the residents of the village were ethnic Belarusians: the settlement was founded by immigrants from the province of Smolensk, former Belarusian territory ceded Russia. In Gusarka developed crafts — lived here the Coopers, carpenters, masons and weavers. The symbol of the village — the potato or bulb: a monument to her, the villagers are going to install in the center of Gusarka, where, until recently, stood the statue of Lenin.
An urban-type settlement of Sartana
Donetsk region, Ilyichevsk the district of Mariupol. Final score: 8898
Sartana was founded in 1780 by the Greeks, which the Russian authorities resettled from the village of the same name, which was in the Crimea. Now the Crimean Sartana is called Alexeyevka, and her namesake of Donetsk is considered the unofficial capital of the Greek villages in the East of Ukraine. The inhabitants of Sartana uphold the traditions of their people, teach children Greek songs and dances and celebrate the national holidays, which serves traditional cuisine.
An urban-type settlement Yalta
Donetsk oblast, Mangusky district. Final score: 4117
Another Greek village in Ukraine, inhabited in the same 1780, immigrants from the Crimean city and its surrounding villages. Initially Azov Yalta consisted of mud huts, then began to appear an Adobe house, and only at the end of the nineteenth century it earned the post and the school. Local landmark — bilosarais’ka Kosa, a part of the landscape Park “Meotida”, on which stands the lighthouse, built in 1835 and operating until now.
* The number of voters and Internet users, plus the jury (maximum of 1200 points)
Catherine Karlin – 06.08.16
Source: agroportal.ua
