AMBER USING ON CROSS-BORDER TERRITORY OF SOUTH-EAST BALTIC: THE HISTORICAL, ECONOMIC AND GEOGRAPHICAL ASPECTS
The article is about amber mining and using. It is relevant due to the fact that there is the largest in the world amber deposit in the Kaliningrad region near Yantarniy, but nevertheless Kaliningrad amber production is not as developed as in Poland and Lithuania. The purpose of the article is determination of different ways to use amber. Scientific novelty represents the coverage of different subjects and periods. Many scholars studied the Baltic gem in different periods or in the context of specific use, without attempt to learn all possibilities of amber using from antiquity to the present. The article considers different ways of Baltic gem using which started 10 thousand years B. C. and exist now. There is a short description of magical and medicine using of stoned resin in the article. There are also examples of technical ambers producing and attention to the kinds of decorative amber items and their usage. To describe and get the results the comparative method was used. The results presented in the article indicate that there is always a relation between the efficiency of amber industry and its support from the state.