Natural-archaeological Museum-reserve "Tatar settlement" in the city of Stavropol is the largest archaeological monument in the Caucasus, which has been miraculously preserved among the forests to our time. Established in 1992, the Museum-reserve is located between the village of Tatarka and Stavropol, surrounded by rural, urban, suburban buildings and is a complex of three FORTS, whose total area is about 200 ha.

The main purpose of this archaeological and natural Museum is the preservation of the cultural landscape, which is a natural-anthropogenic system of four subsystems: a modified natural, natural, historical, archaeological, undisturbed modern. Since 1995, natural-archaeological Museum-reserve is a monument of Federal value.

The name of the settlement was given by Russian military topographers, who drafted the first maps of the Northern Caucasus in the late SEVENTEENTH St..
The first who made the settlement in the list of ancient monuments of nature, became the founder of the Stavropol regional Museum of G. N. Prozritelev. As it turned out, the town was with article VIII BC in X-XI centuries in our era over 4 historical periods: Koban, Scythian, Sarmatian, Khazar. Tatar settlement - the most striking example of settlements of this kind.

The unique preservation of the cultural, fortifications and religious buildings, burial grounds and ancient roads, provide an opportunity to learn a lot about the lives of ancient people. The cultural layer of the settlement covered the ruins of the walls of ancient houses, ash from the fires, the debris from jugs, bowls and pots.

Today the staff of the archaeological and natural Museum-reserve ""Tatar settlement" conducts tours, and also engaged in research activities in the field of Zoology, botany, Geology and soil science.