"Stone Graves" Reserve in the Donetsk Region, 1995

1995, Donetsk Regional State Television and Radio Company. The program "Island in the Steppe" is dedicated to the branch of the Ukrainian State Steppe Nature Reserve of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine - the "Stone Graves" reserve.

In the video: screensavers, landscapes of the reserve (steppe, wildflowers, stone boulders, river, drawings of steppe nomadic warriors, steppe birds, various herbs), archaeological excavations of the eastern detachment of the expedition of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Museum of Local Lore and the Central Donetsk Expedition of the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, a burial ground, human remains, a stone woman, an artist's and sculptor's workshop.

The voice-over tells about the history of Kamyana Mohyla, the formation of a unique landscape, the legends associated with Kamyana Mohyla, Vasylovsky's archaeological expedition at the end of the 19th century and the petroglyphs he found, the work of the artist Gennady Zhukov, the work and staff of the Ukrainian State Steppe Reserve, poaching on the territory of the reserve, and the role of Viktor Sirenko in the history of the reserve.