At the edge of the stone giants in July summed up the second stage of the republican contest printe

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At the edge of the stone giants in July summed up the second stage of the republican contest printers "the best publication on environmental issues." On the regional stage was filed 59 materials: articles, reports, sketches, comments. In the "Our Common Home" (amateurs), first place was awarded Ulyutsenku Viktor (pseudonym Anton Paraskevin), our countryman, doctor CRH, for the series "Boulders - natural monuments Shumilinsky area and their history." The winner is awarded printers a diploma and a monetary award. printers Note that Viktor Ulyutsenka based on those described, poems and articles published in 2012 the book "At the edge of the stone giants" .. We offer you to get acquainted excerpts printers from the book. Preface About the roads and streams, on the outskirts of the fields and in the forest thickets Shumilinsky our land, buried in the ground, lie mossy boulders. So they were lying and 20 thousand years ago, when the Belarusian land lived ancient mammoth hunters, and while living here the first Slavic tribes. These stones remember fratricidal wars of the Kievan Rus, the raids of the Crusaders, the accumulation of Swedish, printers Napoleon and Hitler's hordes. Boulders are an integral part of the landscape, it seems, printers put them - and the Belarusian nature poorer. Scientists call these creations of nature stones travelers and claim they can tell much about the geological past and the treasury of his native land. The memory of our grandparents, printers great-grandparents kept amazing printers tales and legends about the boulders. In the past, stones valued as saints. As elements printers of the spiritual and material life of the people, many boulders included in the list of monuments of history and culture of Belarus. printers But the work to find new and interesting stones that need to take custody of, really printers just beginning. printers These seemingly ordinary boulders allows us to understand the nature, history and culture so strongly linked in all its elements, which can not be separated from each other.
BIG STONE IN Shumilino district has a guardian - a stone giant who lived on earth for about 20 thousand years. He remembers printers the ice age, many wars, cataclysms of nature. Big stone - the largest boulder in Belarus. It is located near the village of Gorki Dabeyskaga village council. Its length is 11 meters, width - 5.6 meters Height - 2.8 meters. According printers to the materials of the Institute of Geology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, the exact weight of the stone - 292 tons. The color is dark brown, composed of rocks, coarse-grained granite called "rapakivi" interspersed with hornblende. Boulder is in the form of the iron. He reminded us more great boat turned upside down. A sort of Noah's ark, which remained on the earth after the flood Belarusian and fossils of the time. Large stone came to us from a distant Scandinavia. Now boulder protected by the state and is a monument of national importance. The stone has a special energy. Passes fatigue when you're near, touch the patriarch Belarusian boulders.
SHAVEKINSKI Shavekinski boulder boulders scientists refer to the iconic boulders with depressions created by human hands. In Belarus more than 500 cult stones. Located Shavekinski boulder on the western edge of the village Shaveki, 2.5 kilometers west of the village Stavitsa, on the western slope of a small moraine hills, pastures. The area of the monument is 6 square meters, the protected zone of the monument of nature - 65 square meters. Boulder consists of red-brown granite and "rapakivi" interspersed with fine crystals of pink feldspar, printers hornblende, quartz gray. Brought in Lace with icing Aland islands in the Baltic Sea in Sweden. On the surface, there is a characteristic Shavekinskaga boulder artificial groove that indicates its religious purpose. It is assumed that the ancestors did rituals printers associated with the cult of fertility and harvest festival. There Shavekinskaga surface boulders and marks of bullets and shells. Villagers NN Chepurnoy told how during the war, 6 meter boulder has saved them from the deadly fire fascist.
PLIGAVSKI boulders Pligavski boulder is one of the largest in Belarus (the length of the visible part of the long axis of 7.2 meters). Located in Boulder Pligavski printers 0.45 kilometers south of the main street of the village Pligovka, 2.4 kilometers north of the village printers Yurova. Area Nature printers Monument is 44 square meters, the area of the security printers zone of the monument of national importance - 116 meters. Boulder light brown grained granite interspersed with pink crystals of feldspar, gray quartz crystals and rare biyatsitu, hornblende and other minerals. This boulder printers brought from Scandinavia during Lace icing. In ancient