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be passed in less than 30-40 minutes. At the area of some geosites of Eastern Ukraine are
located anthropogenic objects, which do not connected with mining activities, the following
are examples of such geosites: Outcropping of Cenozoic geological materials at Kazatcha
hill, Outcropping of Jurassic and Cretaceous geological materials close to Kremenec hill,
Outcropping of Cenozoic geological materials at Gorodischenska hill. Most of this geosites
are visited by holidaymakers, however they are not attracted to these areas by geological
heritage. But visiting geosites by holidaymakers creates a background for development of
geotourism industry at these areas.While this geological heritage has long been popular with
tourists, its main attractions have been mostly limited to aesthetic and recreational values.
Scientific values are often ignored or not included at all as part of the attraction. One of the
reasons for this is the lack of scientific information related to a particular site that can be
easily understood by the public. That is why it is important to make the geosciences
interesting for „ordinary people‟, who are main economic drivers – especially in regard to
tourism [3].
As an anthropogenic objects, geosites were evaluated by the following criteria: age of the
object, historic value of the object, aesthetic value of the object, authenticity, value of
municipalities, objects and cultural rout reconstruction, excellence, emotional value, utility
value, value of provided services, safety criteria. We should emphasize, that applied method
anthropogenic activity means actions connected to mining activity. Only 4 geosites were
evaluated purely by anthropogenic criteria: Mining complex of the Bronze Age “Kartamyshsky
mine”, Lysychansk Mining Museum, Project “Ukrainian technoland”, Salt mines of Soledar.
The highest score get Project “Ukrainian technoland” and Salt mines of Soledar [7].
There are a lot of disused quarries, which were evaluated both as natural and as anthropogenic
objects. Regrettably, most part of these quarries is used for waste dumping. 14 gesites were
appreciated both as natural and anthropogenic geosites: Smirnovsky limestone quarry,
exposure of Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic strata at Melova village, exposure of Cenomanian
strata near Jaremovka village, exposure of Late Jurassic strata close to Protopopovka village,
exposure of Jurassic strata close to Mala Komyshevacha village, Grekovsky Karst area,
Exposure of Cenozoic sands near Novoselovka village, Karaguz gully, Railway cutting near
Izvarine village, Esaulovsky, Central-Nagolnitchanske mineral deposit, mineral deposit at
Nagolno-Tarasivka village, heaps of Komsomolsky Quarry, Oktabrsky mariupolite massif
(Karaguz gully, Central-Nagolnitchanske mineral deposit, mineral deposit at Nagolno-
Tarasivka village have the highest rate of evaluation as athropogenic objects).
The scoring geosites of Eastern Ukraine by prof. Rybar‟s method enabled us to divide this
geosites into categories and choose the most prespective ones to develop geotourism in this
area. The most perspective natural objects are: Kleban-Bykske exposure of Permian
sediments, Kravetska gulch, Druzhkovske petrified wood, exposure of Cretaceous sediments
at the National Park “Svatye Gory”, Repne lake, Slepne lake , Exposure of Jurassic and
Cretaceous strata close to Kremenec hill, Royal Rocks (Korolivske Skaly), Sheepback rocks,
Stylske exposure of Devonian sediments, Outcrop of Kalmius granite massif, Razdolnensky
zakaznik.
CONCLUSION
As can been seen above, we can select 17 the most perspective geosites for development
geotourism in Eastern Ukraine. Our previous research, based on the opinion poll of
inhabitants of Kharkiv region, showed that the most interesting for tourists are following
geosites of Eastern Ukraine: Shatilovsky spring, Exposure of Cretaceous sediments at the
National Park “Svatye Gory”, Kam‟yani mohyly (stone barrows), Sheepback rocks, Salt
mines at Soledar, Druzhkovske petrified wood, Berezivske mineral waters, Project “Ukrainian
technoland”, Royal Rocks (Korolivske Skaly), Explosure of Jurassic and Cretaceous strata
close to Kremenec hill, Razdolnensky zakaznik [2]. The level of interest in following geosites
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