Park Museum Polovtsian stone sculptures

Luhansk, Ukraine

Here are more than 80 sculptures Polovtsian stone sculptures - one of the largest collections in Ukraine, stone statues of 11-12th centuries. These sculptures called "stone broads" because most of them resemble human figures, mostly men or women. The stone woman - sculptures,- in height 1-4m,- were placed on the mounds of ancient peoples: the Scythians, Polovtsy etc. These are the only monumental art of long-extinct nomadic people who lived here in what is now Lugansk region.