Сочинение “Аскания - нова “

Steppe oasis, green island, the pearl called SivashAskania Nova. And for good reason. Sivash from Zaporozhye to the meridian and theKherson Melitopol to the parallel extends monotonous treeless plain. At its center is a protected Askanian fescue-feather grass steppe and octogenarian parks look really an oasis in the endless cropland South Ukrainian collective farms and state farms.On low hills away from each other darkened silhouettes of stone statues, called "broads." It is preserved today pointers ways ancient people - Polovtsy. Statuesque sometimes sit down steppe eagles, which nest covered with white down eaglets found in June on the ground. In the sky the larks sing incessantly, from time to time you hear whistling gopher ... In the past, the whole left bank of the lowerDnipro virgin steppe stretched to the very sea of Azov and Sivash.The country through which stretched Milky "Way", was uninhabited. Now everywhere plowed, paved roads. Only at a crossroads near the release of his custody and was the beginning of a wild nature protection AskaniaNew.