The village Luhova on the Sobok River is located 10 kilometers west of Illintsi. Administratively, it is part of the Illintsi hromada of Vinnytsia district of Vinnytsia region.
There is no reliable information about the time of the village's foundation. It is known that in 1864 Luhova belonged to retired colonel Kaetan Lobachevsky.
Between the villages of Luhova and Ivanki is located the oldest meteorite crater in Ukraine - the Ilyinets astroblema.
Село Лугова на річці Собок розташоване за 10 кілометрів на захід від Іллінців. Адміністративно входить до складу Іллінецької громади Вінницького району Вінницької області.
Достовірних відомостей про час заснування села немає. Відомо, що у 1864 році Лугова належала відставному полковнику Каетану Лобачевському.
Між селами Лугова та Іваньки розташований найдавніший метеоритний кратер України – Іллінецька астроблема.
Ilyinets Crater (Illinetska Astrolblema)
Natural object
Ilyinets astroblema is a meteorite crater that appeared 400 million years ago at the site of the fall of a cosmic body with a mass of about 40 million tons and a diameter of 250-300 meters.
Ilyinets Crater was first discovered in 1851 by Professor Kostyantyn Feofilaktov of Kyiv University, but it was not until 1973 that its cosmic origin was established ("astroblema" in Greek - "stellar wound", i.e. impact crater). Before that, it was believed that this was the mouth of an ancient volcano.
The exposed rocks have some external similarity with volcanic tuffs, but in fact they belong to zuvites - fragile rocks of impact-meteoric origin. For centuries, they were used by local residents to make millstones (this is where the name of the nearby village of Zhornyshche comes from).
The center of the crater with an inner diameter of 4 kilometers and an outer diameter of 10 kilometers is located between the villages of Luhova and Ivanki. You can see the Ilyinets crater in a cross-section just beyond the eastern outskirts of the village of Luhova, where quarries are located, in which local residents still extract building stone. An observation deck and an information stand have been set up there.
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