How and where ancient people lived and what happened to mammoths, you can find out by visiting the Kostenki archaeological museum-reserve, 40 km south of Voronezh. One of the smallest and youngest museums in the Voronezh region contains the most ancient exhibits in the region - the site of an ancient man who lived in the era of the Upper Paleolithic, that is, 38-20 thousand years BC. e.

The collection of a small museum located on a total of 9 hectares includes more than 30 thousand different storage units, including primitive tools of bone and stone, works of Paleolithic art, and skeletons mammoths. The main object of the exposition is the dwelling of people of the Stone Age, built of mammoth bones. Above the remnants of this building, archaeologists have placed a special protective pavilion that "entered" the museum building later.

Excursions

Visit the Kostenki museum-reserve only for six months - from May 1 to October 30. It works daily from 10 to 18 hours, except Monday, the last Tuesday of the month - a sanitary day. You can get on a tour of the museum in order of the first order, the ticket price is 100 rubles, excursion service is paid separately - depending on the size of the group.

How to get there

From Voronezh to Kostenki, you can get on the Kursk route, then turn to Ostrogozhskaya road and go to the signpost to Kostenki. After the turn, go along the asphalt road past the school to the museum building.

You can get there by public transport: the bus from Voronezh to Kostenki leaves at 9.20 every day from the southwest bus station

Mamont, Kostenki

One of the exhibits, Kostenki

Bones of the mammoth, Kostenki

Comments about Kostenki (1)

Changed the opinion of the ancient people October 24, 2013

Nataliya34

was here May 2012

Sometimes I think, why go abroad to watch the ancient architecture, when next to you are unique places?
In archeology it is customary not to violate the natural unique archeological find, not to transfer it to museums, but to erect a museum complex over it, as, for example, did in Cologne over the Roman mosaic. Recently we visited Kostenki. I'm not sure that there is a similar place in Russia (and maybe in the world). Not far from Voronezh opened more than 30 sites of an ancient man .... Read the full review
Kostenki