Attractions of Kalmiuske district

The only zoo in Donbas was created by the efforts of the labor team of the local enterprise "Dokuchaievsk Fluso-Dolomite Combine" OJSC.

In 2001, a zoo corner appeared at the enterprise. Then the territory of the abandoned children's camp was cleared, arranged and landscaped. "Swan Lake" appeared in the place of the old pool, in the place of the fountain - an eagle's nest, in the place of the dining room - a terrarium. The greenhouse was restored, a children's railway was laid, sculptures of heroes of children's fairy tales were placed everywhere.

The first inhabitants of the zoo were two peacocks. Then mandarin ducks, mountain geese, mouflons, a crocodile and other animals appeared. Today, there are more than a hundred species, seven of which are listed in the Red Book.

The special pride of the zoo is a pair of black swans from Turkmenistan.

The Historical Museum of Heorhiy Syedov is dedicated to the outstanding polar explorer, in whose honor the village of Kryva Kosa was renamed to Siedove in 1941.

Heorhiy Syedov was born in 1877 in the family of an Azov sailor from Kryva Kosa. After becoming a hydrographic officer, in 1901 he went on his first hydrographic expedition to the Arctic Ocean. with the study of Nova Zemlya and the Kara Sea. In 1912-1914, he made a desperate attempt to reach the North Pole, equipping the ship "Holy Martyr Foka" for this purpose. On the way to his goal, he died of an illness and was buried at the northern tip of the Franz Josef Land archipelago.

The exhibition of the museum, the halls of which resemble a ship's hold, tells about all stages of the researcher's life path. A map of the polar expedition, copies of invoices for voluntary donations for the purchase of dogs and food, authentic items from the ship "Saint Foka", part of the ship's plating and shoeing, as well as parts of a camera, a razor and brushes that belonged to the artist Mykola Pinehin, a member of the expedition, are presented. A drawing of the schooner "Saint Foka" made by him is presented.

The reserve "Khomutivsky Steppe" is the largest part of the Ukrainian Steppe Reserve (1028 hectares), a preserved fragment of the Wild Field, as it was before the development of these lands.

The reserve was founded in 1926 to preserve and protect steppe vegetation. Today, the area of the reserve is 1,030.4 hectares, and 90 of them are a completely protected area, which has never been touched by a plow and which has not been grazed by cattle or mowed for 70 years.

The reserve is crossed by the Klymushevska, Brandtova, Chervona streams. On its territory, the plants of the group of plain multi-grass - typchakovo - kovilov steppe have been preserved and are protected. 604 species of flowering plants and ferns grow here - grasses, shrubs and trees. Including 19 - endemic, ie. spread over a very limited area.

59 species of mosses, 46 lichens and more than 270 mushrooms are also registered in the reserve. The feathered world of the Khomutivsky Steppe is represented by more than 80 species of birds.

The National Natural Park "Meotida" is located in the south of the Donetsk region, covering a two-kilometer coastal zone of the Sea of Azov for 150 kilometers.

The reserve was created in 2000. It received the name of the ancient country of the Meotids, a tribe of Meots who lived in the 1st millennium BC in the Azov region. The area of the park is 13 thousand hectares of territory and the same amount of water area.

The park "Meotida" includes the nature reserves of national importance "Bilosarayska Kosa" and "Pryazovsky Chapelnyk", the ornithological reserve of local importance "Kryvokosky estuary", natural monuments of local importance "Kryva Kosa" and "Pine crops", as well as the regional landscape park "Polovtsian Steppe".

More than 250 species of birds (including curly pelicans) and 47 species of mammals have been registered on the territory of the reserve, some of them are listed in the Red Book. The flora of the park has preserved the aboriginal features of the steppe vegetation, which includes 640 species, including more than 40 endemic ones.

In 2001, Meotida Park was accepted into the international organization "Federation of Europarks".

Excursions for children and adults, boat trips, bird watching and horseback riding are available. In particular, tourists can observe the life of unique birds in their natural environment from the 26-meter tower.

Russian armed aggression in the east of Ukraine led to serious environmental consequences, including in the territory of the Meotida National Nature Park, which was damaged during the hostilities. Some objects of the nature reserve fund of the reserve were damaged or destroyed by shelling.

The ornithological reserve of local importance "Kryvokosky estuary" is located near the village of Sedove.

The status of the reserve was granted by the decision of the regional executive committee in 1988. The area is 468.7 hectares. It is a shallow estuary, which is a nesting place for wetland birds, including rare waders and others.

Interesting Kryvokosky estuary with extremely healing mud.

In 2010, the ornithological reserve "Kryvokosky estuary" became part of the "Meotida" National Nature Park.

The sand spit to the east of the village of Bezimenne, as well as the bay of the Sea of Azov located behind it, are called Lukomorye.

According to legend, this braid and oak, which once grew on the seashore, were described by the poet Pushkin in the prologue to "Ruslan and Lyudmyla" ("The oak is green by the sea...") and, perhaps, in "The Tale of Fishing and Gold fish" ("There lived an old man and an old woman, near the bluest sea ..."). Pushkin really passed through these places in 1820 on his way to the Caucasus. According to the memories of his fellow travelers, they stopped in the shade of a huge oak in the village of Bezimenne. Now there are no oaks in these places, but you can find a large tree that fits Pushkin's description.