According to local tradition, the rare red-black granite from Tokivske Quarry was used to build a mausoleum in Moscow — a legend impossible to verify, …
Tokivske Granite Quarry: The Stone Rumored to Have Built a Mausoleum in Moscow
Quarries
Kodak Quarry: A Lake Above Fortress Ruins Where a Mermaid Supposedly Lives
Locals claim to have repeatedly seen a mermaid surface from the water of Kodak Quarry and dive back under — a legend that lives alongside …
Bohunskyi Quarry: A Lake with a Thermocline Beneath Which Total Darkness Rules
At a depth of 18 ft (5.5 m), Bohunskyi Quarry hits a thermocline — a sharp temperature drop where warm, clear water turns icy cold. …
Yelyseiivka Quarry: Minerals Mined Since the German Occupation
According to one version of events, mining of the pegmatite deposit at Yelyseiivka began as early as the German occupation during World War II — …
Vilnohirsk Quarry: The “Dnipro Maldives” That’s Actually an Industrial Site
The “Dnipro Maldives” isn’t an official recreation zone — it’s an active industrial site: Vilnohirsk Quarry still mines zircon-rutile-ilmenite ore and quartz sand today, and …
The Blue Lakes Near Svitlovodsk: Sand Quarries Passing Themselves Off as the Maldives
The Blue Lakes near Svitlovodsk owe their color not to some natural anomaly, but to sand mining: the complex of three (some sources say four) …
Cherepashyntsi Quarry: The “Vinnytsia Maldives” with a Granite Floor Deeper Than a 30-Story Building
Cherepashyntsi Quarry gets called the “Vinnytsia Maldives” for its turquoise water and pale shores, but underneath that picture is a former granite pit that mining …
Salt Lake in Antonivka: A Crater from a Blown Gas Well
The Salt Lake in Kharkiv Oblast isn’t a natural body of water — it’s the result of an industrial accident. In 1962, drillers near Antonivka …
Korostyshiv Quarry — the “labradorite canyon,” 130 years of extraction and a film location
In 1890 quarrying of labradorite, gabbro and grey granite began here. For a hundred years the quarry was one of the largest enterprises in the …
Chikaliv granite quarry – a heart from a height and turquoise water in the forests of Poltava region
Poltava region is usually soft. Fields. Forests. Flat roads. And that’s why the quarry here looks almost alien – like a big wound in the …
Morozivka Coal Cut — a Stretch of Steppe Sliced in Two and Left to Flood
The Kirovohrad region is usually associated with fields, sunflowers, and a flat horizon line. Which is exactly why what appears near Pantaivka looks unreal. Not …