According to one version of events, mining of the pegmatite deposit at Yelyseiivka began as early as the German occupation during World War II — …
Yelyseiivka Quarry: Minerals Mined Since the German Occupation
Zaporizhia Oblast
Kamiana Mohyla — a Steppe Hill With Thousands of Petroglyphs, on Temporarily Occupied Land
You drive through the Zaporizhzhia steppe, and the landscape barely changes. Field. Sky. Horizon. And then, suddenly, in the middle of all that flatness, a …