Near the city of Pavlograd (Dnipropetrovsk region) adjacent to the village of Mavrino has earthen building - a huge, mysterious, incomprehensible configuration. From the height of the glider it is a giant mysterious symbol.
Was Mezhirich independence square for the village, in the West, and Mavrinsky – East. Mezhirich is almost preserved, although this area is still called "Maidan". And Mavrinsky preserved, which is somewhere about ten years ago called the Cossack. It is the interest in the history of Zaporizhzhya Cossacks led me to this thread.
In July was lucky enough to see this Maidan from the height of bird flight. It was video footage shot from a paraglider.Seen striking an unusual form, greatness, uniqueness and a special mystique. For years the mystery of this place tried to solve many experienced archaeologists. And that's according to one version, was launched.
In the nineteenth century in the South of present-day Ukraine and Russia was carried out systematic work for the study of mounds, mostly of Scythian and ancient buildings of the III-I millennia BC.
Archaeologists of the nineteenth century drew attention to the design features of the embankments. In 1869 it was proposed to divide the mounds on the grave of a tombstone, and simple earthen mound, which could have a different purpose: as a watchdog points, or beacons, boundaries or even the Observatory.
He was then selected mounds and ritual, which in the forest-steppe zone of Ukraine was called “Maidan”. It was noted that they differ from other earthworks exquisite forms and like some giant characters.
In those days, the archaeologists diggers was interested primarily burial mounds, which were burial and clothing values. Known at that time “barrows with moustaches” (curved shaft), and “long barrows” were considered a deviation from the norm, “separate incidents”.
But archaeologists of the pre-revolutionary period still left a lot of studies on the Maidan. Some thought it ruined mounds (which were used to generate nitrate) or as fortifications (at the Zaporozhye Cossacks). And some researchers have proposed a hypothesis about the religious, ceremonial purpose of the Maidan.
Even в1898 year in its publication the archeologist noted; “From the height of bird flight all mounds of independence must imagine something like a huge spider... The absence of graves under the Maidan, its peculiar form... all this justifies the assumption that such structures must be attributed to the embankments which were to serve as graves, and as ceremonial and religious.”
But in the twentieth century, scientists had little interest in independence.
Thus, mavrynskyy square has great historical value, being miraculously preserved over the centuries and millennia to the ancient earthen structure.