Natural and Archaeological Museum "Tatar settlement" in the city of Stavropol is the largest archaeological monument Ciscaucasia who miraculously survived in the woods before our time. Created in 1992, the museum-reserve is located between the village of Tatarka and Stavropol, surrounded by rural, urban, suburban and buildings is a complex of three settlements with a total area of ​​approximately 200 hectares.

The main purpose of the establishment of the archaeological and natural museum is to preserve the cultural landscape is a natural and human systems of the four sub-systems: changes in natural, natural, historical, archaeological, unbroken today. Since 1995, natural and archaeological museum - a monument of federal importance.

The name of the ancient settlement was given the Russian military topographer, who were involved in drawing up the first maps of the North Caucasus in the late seventeenth century ..
  The first who has made settlement in the list of ancient monuments of nature, was the founder of the Stavropol regional museum GN Prozritelev. As it turned out, there was settlement from VIII Art. BC to the X-XI st. in our era of over four historical periods: Koban, Scythian, Sarmat, Khazar. Tatar settlement - the most striking example of this kind of settlements.

Unique cultural preservation, fortification and places of worship, cemeteries and ancient roads, provide an opportunity to learn a lot about the life of ancient people. The cultural layer covered with the ruins of the ancient city walls of ancient houses, ashes from the fires, debris from the pitchers, bowls and pots.

Today, the staff of the Archaeological and Natural Museum "," The Tatar settlement "guided tours, as well as engaged in research activities in the field of zoology, botany, geology and soil science.