Glorious ship brave Zaporozhye Cossacks Bashny.Net

Gidroarheologi Zaporizhzhya National Reserve "Khortytsya" raised from the bottom of the Dnieper ancient martial Cossack boat - "Zaporozhye oak," lay in the waters of the reserve almost three centuries.

18-meter Cossack boat of the "Oak" - a veteran of the Russian-Turkish war of 1735-1739 years, said the agency "Interfax-Ukraine" Director of the SE "Yuzhgidroarheologiya" Valery Nefedov.

"The ancient boat found in the waters of the island of Khortytsya in 1999. However, due to lack of funds could not pick it up. During this time, a unique archaeological find, is stored on a 6-meter depth in the waters of the beach area of ​​Khortitsa began to collapse and in urgent need of lifting from the bottom and preservation ", - he said.

Ancient warship remained almost 80% due to the fact that for nearly three centuries at the bottom of the Dnieper River was covered with sand and silt.

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V.Nefedov said that the ship "Zaporozhye oak" raised in the Ukraine for the first time, and "a similar exhibit any museum in the world can only dream».

"Cossack boat" oak ", built in the 18th century, is made in the best tradition of shipbuilding Zaporozhye Cossacks. Although almost all of its casing made of oak, it is light and maneuverable, and is considered the prototype of the modern marine vessels. Thanks to the "oaks" the Cossacks successfully fought with the army of the Ottoman Empire in the Black Sea ", - he said.

He said that after conservation Cossack ship will go to the Museum of Ancient Shipping on Khortytsya, which already contains several ancient Cossack ships found over the past 10 years in the waters of the ancient Cossack shipyard at Khortytsia.



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