Buhaivka

The Merheleva Ridge (literally "Marlstone Ridge", "Marl Ridge") is a geological monument and an archaeological site under study.

The complex of stone and earth buildings with an area of 1.3 square kilometers is located 4 kilometers south of the small village of Stepanivka (Buhaivka settlement).

The Merheleva Ridge was discovered in 1976 by a group of Alchevsk schoolchildren led by Volodymyr Paramonov, the founder of the MIG archaeological club. On a large rocky plateau formed by weathered limestones and marls (hence the name of the ridge), there is a chain of burial mounds of the Bronze Age. Other ridge formations also look man-made.

According to one of the versions, some objects of the Merheleva Ridge ("roads", "walls", stone stelae) are of artificial origin and belong to an unknown civilization 5 thousand years old. According to another version, all objects, except for mounds, have a natural geological origin.

The most interesting object is the so-called "Second Wall of China", made of regular limestone stones, the nature of the formation of which is still not completely clear. Also interesting are the regularly shaped stone circles, which for some reason are called "Ukrainian pyramids". It is probably an ancient sanctuary.