Zaporozhye - Vasilyevka - Mirnoe...

Travel by car route Zaporozhye - Vasilyevka - Mirnoe - Berdyansk has been compiled for a 2-3 day trip. During the roadtrip, you will see the Popov Estate, Stone grave and unusual monuments of the city of Berdyansk.

Starting point of the route: Zaporozhye
Distance of the route: 200 km (one way)
Number of days: 2-3 days

The first point that we will visit is Vasilyevka that is located 45 km from Zaporozhye.

Popov Estate in Vasilyevka

In the city of Vasilyevka you will find an architectual monument which is the Popov Estate.

The Manor is completed in a classic Victorian style, built in the late nineteenth century, for a large landowner Popov. The structure of the building has suffered greatly during the Soviet era, but some of the buildings remain intact. Once on the estate, you can see the surviving observation tower, stables and the "English house for the servants." In the city there is a museum where you can learn the history of the castle and its legends, see the layout of the original building and interior decorating estate.

Next stop - the village Mirnoe

Stone Grave near Mirnoe village

Mirnoe village is in the Melitopol district, 75 km from Zaporozhye by the Simferopol highway.

In the Mirnoe village is one of the oldest monuments of our country which is the Stone grave. Against the backdrop of the sandy plains were collected a lot of huge stone boulders and we still do not know how they got there. In ancient times, this mystical place served as a sanctuary. This monument became known thanks to the national archeologists and speleologists. On the territory of this natural reserve are located about 100 caves, on the walls of which there is a set of samples of rock paintings and ancient literature created around 2000b.c.

The next point of our trip is a city on the Sea of ​​Azov named Berdyansk.

Berdyansk

Berdyansk is located in the Zaporozhye region, 200 km from Zaporozhye.

Berdyansk is famous for its extraordinary monuments. One of them is a monument created in honor of the "Children of Lieutenant Schmidt." Historic homeland of the real Lieutenant is Berdyansk. In town there are also monuments to fish - "Bychek", a monument to a boy, fisherman, cottager, plumber and many other comic characters of our lives. But probably the funniest, is a monument to a "toad" – a bronze toad with a mobile phone. According to local legends the toad helps get rid of envy and greed.

And now we go back to Zaporozhey by the same road.