UK: Розглянуто історію маловідомої визначної пам’ятки на теренах Дніпропетровської області Мавринського майдану. Відзначено версії походження майдану.
EN: Problem statement. «Mavryns’ky maidan» archeological memorial is a sanctuary, observatory, sky «calendar» oriented at cardinal directions Sun, Moon, Star Sky. There are a lot of burial mounds in Ukraine. Scientists said that these steppe pyramids are more than 4000 years old maybe even more than 6000. Maidans were studied not a lot. There is an archaeological punch that these maidans are only destroyed burial–mounds or graves. There is a similar building near Pavlograd. There is an earth–deposit located next to the village Mavrina. It was not interesting for a long time so the scientists did not like it. But after appearing of sensational photos from the bird’s fly it becomes clear there is not just a burial–mound but some mystery building looks like a giant spider. Maidan attracts attention its unusual form, greatness and singularity and specious mystery. The shape of Maidan is not definite: back to XIX century there were a lot of ground buildings of different shapes: cone shaped, hemisphere shaped, burial mound with spiky peaks or stupid or sunken, snakelike mounds near the rivers, the coogooms. Notice that these mounds were man–made — created by our ancestors’ hands and the sizes were giant. They were created by someone’s brains, by someone’s strength. What did these buildings mean for their ancestors? What role did they play? What made ancestors to refuse from daily life, from making food to build these mounds? Unspoiled by technique outrage of electromagnetic waves, ancestors were the children of nature. They knew something about the sense of the Earth and the Sky, about their influence on human’s organism, they clearly understood the ground and space energy.
Analyzing of the resent research. The topic of getting through and fate of Mavryns’ky maidan shown in Larisa Ohotnick book which gives a lot of versions of Maidan’s designation [1]. Based on Yurij Ivanov books in Gemin’s translation an assumption was made regarding the mysterious peculiarity of Maidan, namely about the fact that it was an ancient observatory and this version has the right to exist [7; 5]. The description of building lets us represent the picture of ancient times [2; 4; 8].
Research objective. To introduce students to an unknown but important place in Dnipropetrovsk; to study all versions of Maidan existence; to know something about certain mysterious features of Maidan; to get acquainted with the peculiarities of Maidan design and construction.
Conclusions. On the basis of the work done we are most likely to pursue the idea that maidan’s designation lied in being the observatory for people. Researchers were stunned by the gigantic size of the site. Its majestic qualities and entity can be fully perceived only from the height. One of the special features of the site is its strict geometrical shape, namely round. The most important is its orientation to different parts of the world as well as the presence of «window» used to record the appearance of Sun in the solstice and equinox as well as the Moon, planets, constellations at their special periods. The more we study maidans in order to find the answers to our questions, the more questions arise that find no answers.
