Istok Dona

This is the source of one of the most famous rivers in Russia. Must visit place to comprehend how such a small string of water turns into a big river.

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The park is beautiful, modern and well-maintained! The monument "Don and Shat" is based on the story of Leo Tolstoy "Don and Shat". The story is something like this: ... "In the Tula province there was a peasant named Ivan. And he had two sons - Don and Shat. And in his old age, Ivan told his sons:" Go - wherever I show you, and you will live gloriously and without knowing grief. "The elder brother, Shat, disobeyed his father and went the other way. He thought to outwit his father, but it did not work out. Shat remained narrow, lost in the forests and fields, and finally fell into the river Don went where his father told him. He passed through all of Russia from north to south and fell into the Sea of ​​Azov. Don still serves people. For this, the people call him "Don Ivanovich." Tula is a lake with many streams flowing out of it, including Don and Shat. This is how L.N. Tolstoy "Don and Shat" The very source of the Don River is not in the park. What we see in the park - both the riverbed and the stone - everything was built as an installation in the late 80s, when the park was laid. An ordinary pipe with tap water passes through the stone. The real source of the Don is located in Lake Urvanskoe (Urvanka), which is located near Novomoskovsk, in an underground spring. The lake that Tolstoy mentions is located outside the city. It is located in the village "Ivan Ozero". Don does not flow out of there. I don't know about the river Shat because many streams actually originate from it.

Everything is super. It is not clear only why the zoo has a day off.

This is part of a park complex. All around ennobled. It is very nice to be in the park and with children there is where to spend time (and attractions and a pool and a contact zoo) a solid five in general and not only when it's warm. It's nice to walk when the snow is lying. The tracks are cleaned.