Населенные пункты Ростовской области (Маргаритово)
учебно-методическое пособие по английскому языку (7 класс)

Margaritovo village is considered to be the

tourist’s jewel of our region, located in the Azov district a hundred kilometers from Rostov-on-Don. Beautiful landscapes and picturesque views of the Taganrog Bay are not the only attractions of the village. In this place there are objects that can attract the attention of not only tourists, but also specialists of various Sciences. The coastal cliff reflects the geological chronicle of our planet, and the sandy beach supplies paleontological material. The most interesting finds are exhibited in the Azov historical, archaeological and paleontological Museum-reserve: the unique skull of an Etruscan bear in Russia and the remains of a fossil pike. These findings are over a million years old! Ancient period is represented by monuments of archeology-settlements and barrows. Now many of them are destroyed by the waves of the Taganrog Bay.

For centuries, this territory was a border for Russia. Only in 1774 it completely passed into the possession of the Russian Empire. Less than ten years later, in 1783, new settlements began to be founded on the shore of the Taganrog Bay. Among them was Margaritovo.

Margaritovo village is located on the steep coast of the Taganrog Bay and it is one of the oldest villages of the Azov district. The Main singularity of the village is a tombstone made of white marble, which can be seen in the village cemetery. The epitaph says that Margarita Mikhailova Blazova, who died in 1797, rests here. She was the wife of the founder of the village Margarita Manuilovich Blaso

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