Attractions of Zuivka

Burning stones - a place where burning methane rises to the surface in the area of the Nyzhnya Krynka River. Natural degassing of the subsoil. Shale or coal gas glows.

According to eyewitnesses, this deposit is more than 20 years old. Environmentalists assume that methane is seeping through a crack in the coal seam. The gas concentration is 100 percent. It burns on the surface. The height of the flame sometimes reaches 2 meters.

While entrepreneurs, scientists and the authorities are thinking about using the well, fishermen have found a use for it. They can often be found here in winter. They warm themselves by a natural fire and cook soup on it.

Regional landscape park "Zuyivskyi" is located on an area of 1.2 thousand hectares in the area of the village of Zuivka, surrounded by rocky hills covered with steppe and forests.

The Zuyivskyi regional landscape park includes the Vilkhivske and Khanzhenkivske reservoirs, the Lypove tract, a stream near the village of Vedmezhe, the valley of the Krynka River, Zui-Hill, the valley of the Vilkhova River, outcrops of rock outcrops, and forest massifs of the Makiivka Forestry.

Along the Vilkhova River between the Vilkhivske and Khanzhenkivske reservoirs, there are vertical walls of rocks that are used as a natural climbing wall. A rock ridge with a height of 20 meters and a length of more than 300 meters drowns in the shade of trees, from the cliffs there is a wonderful view of the Donetsk steppe. The Zuivka skeledrome includes about twenty routes, from the simplest to the most difficult.

There is a museum of mollusk shells at the Zuyivskyi landscape park, where about one and a half thousand shells from all over the world are collected.