Archaeological sites in Russia Archaeological sites in Russia Arkaim is an archaeological site situated in the Southern Urals steppe, 8.2 km north-to-northwest of Amurskiy, and 2.3 km south-to-southeast of Alexandronvskiy, two villages in the Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, just to the north from the Kazakhstani border ( ). ...more on Wikipedia about "Arkaim"
Dyakovo culture ( Russian: Дьяковская культура, from the excavated monument at Dyakovo - Дьяково) is an Iron Age culture which occupies the significant part of the Upper Volga, Valday and Oka River area. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dyakovskaya culture"
Ipatovo kurgan refers to kurgan 2 of the Ipatovo barrow cemetery 3, a cemetery of kurgan burial mounds, located near Ipatovo, some 120 km north-east of Stavropol, Stavropol Krai, Russia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ipatovo kurgan"
Krivoye Ozero is a small lake in the Chelyabinsk Oblast of Russia, southeast of Magnitogorsk, near the Kazakhstani border. Its name is translated from the Russian as "Crooked Lake". ...more on Wikipedia about "Krivoye Ozero"
Lower Mikhaylovka group, 3600—3000 BC, a late copper age archaeological culture of the lower Dneiper River immediately underlying remains of the successor Yamna culture site named Mikhaylovka I, noted for is fortifications. It is related to the Kemi Oba culture and seems to have connections to the Maykop culture. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lower Mikhaylovka group"
The Maykop culture, ca. 3500 BC— 2500 BC, is a major bronze age archaeological culture situated in Southern Russia running from the Taman peninsula at the Kerch Strait nearly to the modern border of Dagestan, centered approximately on the modern Republic of Adygea, (whose capital is Maykop) in the Kuban River valley. The culture takes its name from a royal burial found there. ...more on Wikipedia about "Maykop culture"
The Chernogorovka and Novocherkassk cultures (ca. 900 to 650 BC) are Iron Age steppe cultures in the Ukraine and Russia, centered between the Prut and the lower Don. They are pre- Scythian cultures, associated with the Cimmerians. ...more on Wikipedia about "Novocherkassk culture"
Novotitorovka culture, 3300—2700 BC, a bronze age archaeological culture of the south Caucasus immediately to the north of and largely overlapping portions of the Maykop culture facing the Sea of Azov, running from the Kerch Strait eastwards, almost to the Caspian, roughly coterminous with the modern Krasnodar Krai region of Russia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Novotitorovka culture"
Pazyryk is a local name for a valley in the Altai Mountains lying in Siberian Russia south of the modern city of Novosibirsk, near the borders with China, Kazakhstan and Mongolia. It is part of the Ukok plateau, where many ancient Bronze Age barrow-like tomb mounds of larch logs covered over by large cairns of boulders and stones have been found. In Russian, such "barrows" are called kurgans—a word of Turkic origin— and the spectacular Scythian burials at Pazyryk introduced " kurgan" into general usage to describe such log-barrow burials. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pazyryk"
Sarkel (or Şarkil; Turkic for "White Fortress") was a large limestone-and-brick fortress built by the Khazars with Byzantine assistance in the 830s. Sarkel was built to protect theie state's northern border from the Varangians known as the Rus, as well as from nomadic marauders from the east. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sarkel"
The Sintashta fortified settlement in the southern Urals is dated to ca. 2000–1600 BC. It was excavated between 1968 and 1986 and gave its name to the Sintashta-Petrovka culture. The site is located in Chelyabinsk Oblast of Russia, ca. . ...more on Wikipedia about "Sintashta"
Staraya Ladoga ( ), or Aldeigjuborg of Norse sagas, is the first capital of Russia, now the village on the Volkhov River near Lake Ladoga. ...more on Wikipedia about "Staraya Ladoga"
Tanais, ( Greek Τάναϊς) is the ancient name for the River Don in Russia. In antiquity, it was also the name of the city situated in the Don river delta that reaches into the northeasternmost part of the Sea of Azov, which the Greeks called Lake Maeotis. The site of ancient Tanais is situated about 30 km west of modern Rostov on Don. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tanais"
Tmutarakan' (Russian: Тмутаракань, Ukrainian: Тмуторокань) is an ancient city that controlled the passage from the Black Sea to the Sea of Azov. It was situated on the Taman peninsula, in the present-day Krasnodar Krai of Russia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tmutarakan" www.shortopedia.com - now!
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