Museum of minerals, ores, gems "Amazing in stone"

The exhibits of the museum were collected since 1952, initially not specifically for the museum, exhibitions, but simply as rare specimens, unusual phenomena in the world of stone. And only in the last 15 years, the collection was replenished purposefully, not only by personal collection, but also with the help of friends, through exchange, acquisition from other collectors, etc.

Quite widely represented jasper of the Urals, silica minerals (mountains crystal.amethysts, chrysoprases, chalcedony, agates, opals, kakholongs), sulfide minerals, many ores, various kinds of patterned metamorphic gusts, almost all flower stones, many gems. Widely and fully represented minerals, ores and containing rocks of the Urup copper-pounded deposit (North Caucasus). Exhibits are taken from almost all parts of our country (from western Ukraine to Kamchatka and Chukotka), as well as from Mongolia, Afghanistan, the Czech Republic, Germany, South Africa, Antarctica, from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. There are unique samples, for example, a prismatic (pseudohexagonal) variety of calcite crystals in the geological museums of Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Irkutsk, Stavropol, Cherkessk, in the collection of the club of stone lovers of Sverdlovsk there is only from this collection. Museum exhibits are stuccoes of rocks, minerals and ores, individual crystals, their druze and splices, core wells, polishing, partially art products and crafts made of colored stone.

The exposition of the museum "Amazing in the Stone" attracted many visitors (by 6-8 thousand people per year, including schoolchildren, students, excursionists from the cities of Kavminvod, Moscow, Stavropol, Rostov, etc.) when exposing the full collection in the Teberda branch of the Karachay-Cherkesssky Historical, Cultural and Natural Museum-Reserve.

To some extent, the museum is unique, as there is no similar one in the region. Of particular interest to visitors were unconventional information about colored stones (under this term in this text combines jewelry, ornamental, decorative, collectible minerals, historical stones, etc.) - their application - in art, technology, everyday life, lithotherapy, astrology, the history of stone, stone in the history of culture and the history of individual stones, which strengthened the desire to quickly complete the consolidated work "Amazing in stone".