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🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site

Phanagoria — Kuban Delta Western Harbour Mole

Classical to Medieval (500 BCE – 1000 CE) · Bosporan Greek

Western Kuban mole of Phanagoria — timber-piled harbour at former river mouth, now silted 1–2.5 m in delta.

🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus

Tunnug 1 (Arzhan 0) — Frozen Royal Kurgan, Uyuk Valley Tuva

Early Scythian (Arzhan horizon, early Saka, Aldy-Bel–Mongun-Taiga precursor) · Early Scythian (Aldy-Bel / Arzhan, Proto-Saka–Mongun-Taiga)

Late 9th-c BCE frozen royal kurgan (140 x 130 m, 1.8 ha) — earliest Scythian princely tomb in Siberian Valley of the Kings.

🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site

Patrai — Central Submerged Emporium in Kerch Strait

Archaic to Late Antiquity (6th c. BCE – 500 CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan / Roman

Central strait emporium of Patrai — transshipment mole at 2–4 m in Kerch Strait handling grain toll.

🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus

Kaup-Wiskiauten Viking Cemetery (Mochovoye)

Early Middle Ages (9th–11th c. Viking Age) · Scandinavian Varangians + Prussian Sambians

Kaup-Wiskiauten Viking Cemetery (Mochovoye) in Kaliningrad Oblast, Zelenogradsk District, Mochovoye village on Curonian Spit edge, Russia is a Early Middle Ages (9th–11th c.

🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site

Hermonassa — Northern Lagoon Harbour in Taman Bay

Archaic to Medieval Rus (550 BCE – 1400 CE) · Mytilenean Greek / Bosporan / Byzantine / Kievan Rus

Northern lagoon harbour of Hermonassa — rubble mole and timber causeway at 1.5–3 m in Taman lagoon.

🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site

Bata — Tsemes Bay Harbour at Novorossiysk

Archaic to Late Antiquity (550 BCE – 370 CE) · Sindian / Milesian Greek / Bosporan

Submerged harbour of Bata — Classical mole at 3–8 m under Novorossiysk commercial port in Tsemes Bay.

🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site

Toricos — Southern Harbour at Toretae Cape

Archaic to Byzantine (6th c. BCE – 600 CE) · Toretae / Milesian Greek / Bosporan

Southern harbour of Toricos — rubble mole and galley slipway at 2–4 m off Gelendzhik Tonkiy Cape.

🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site

Kepoi — Eastern Submerged Necropolis and Offshore Grave Terrace (Taman East)

Archaic to Late Antique (580 BCE – 300 CE) · Milesian Greek / Bosporan / Sarmatian

Eastern necropolis terrace of Kepoi in Taman Gulf east — 90 cist graves at –2 m and 60 m wall.

🇷🇺 Russia · Archaeological wonder

Samosdelka

Samosdelka (Russian: Самосделка) is a fishing village in the Astrakhan Oblast of southern Russia, approximately 40 km south-southwest of the city of Astrakhan, in the Volga River delta area of the…

🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus

Novozavedennoye Kurgan Field – Stavropol Steppe

Maikop to Sarmatian (3600 BCE–300 CE) · Maikop / Yamnaya / Catacomb / Sarmatian

Stratified Maikop–Catacomb–Sarmatian kurgan cemetery (3600 BCE–300 CE) — Caucasus-steppe anchor.

🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus

Philippovka Kurgans – Sarmatian Gold Necropolis

Iron Age Sarmatian (Prokhorovka culture) · Early Sarmatian (Sauromatian–Prokhorovka)

29 Sarmatian chief mounds (400–300 BCE)—26,000 gold appliqués and scale-armored elite on the Ural steppe.

🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site

Porthmion — South Harbour at Chushka Spit South (Kerch Strait South Spit)

Archaic to Late Antique (580 BCE – 300 CE) · Milesian / Bosporan

Southern spit harbour of Porthmion on Chushka South — 55 m piled quay at –1.8 m and guard mole.

🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art

Chuya Steppe — Kosh-Agach Geoglyph Petroglyphs

Iron Age to Medieval · Pazyryk-Scythian, Xiongnu, Turkic, Mongol

Kosh-Agach Chuya steppe 1750 m with 800 petroglyphs, Pazyryk deer-stone stag and 80-ibex super-panel.

🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site

Gorgippia — Central Harbour Quarter (Anapa Bay Central)

Archaic to Late Antique (550 BCE – 260 CE) · Sindian / Bosporan Kingdom

Central city harbour of Gorgippia in Anapa Bay — 110 m quay at –2 m and salting vats.

🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site

Toricos — Northern Roadstead Anchorage at Gelendzhik

Classical to Medieval (5th c. BCE – 1200 CE) · Toretae / Bosporan / Genoese

Northern roadstead of Toricos — reef anchorage at 6–9 m with 15 moorings and amphora scatter in Gelendzhik north bay.

🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site

Porthmion — Chushka Spit Harbour at Chushka North (Kerch Strait Chushka) — v2

Classical to Late Antique (5th c. BCE – 370 CE) · Bosporan Greek

Chushka Spit ferry harbour of Porthmion at Kerch Strait — 100 m rubble causeway at –2 m with wheel ruts and customs quay 60 m.

🇷🇺 Russia · Kurgan

Chuya Steppe Kurgan Complex (Kosh-Agach Basin)

Early Iron Age (Chuya Pazyryk / Saka) · Pazyryk-derived Chuya steppe

Chuya intermontane basin floor (1,750 m, 49°55′N 88°30′E 49.92,88.50 tectonic depression, Chuya River) dense kurgan necropolis on dry steppe: 35 mounds 6-32 m diameter (1760 m at Tydtuyaryk…

🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art

Kalbak-Tash III Chuyozy Confluence

Bronze Age to Turkic · Afanasievo, Andronovo, Pazyryk, Ancient Turk

Promontory at sacred Chuya-Katun confluence with ford-inscription and sun-wheel.

🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site

Chersonesos Taurica — Quarantine Bay Western Harbour Submerged

Archaic to Late Medieval (c.528 BCE – 1399 CE) · Megarian Greek / Byzantine

Megarian Black Sea polis UNESCO — western Quarantine Bay harbour and street grid now 1–3 m submerged at Sevastopol.

🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site

Bata — Lagoon Harbour at Novomyshastovskaya (Batskoe Gorodishche South)

Archaic to Late Antique (600 BCE – 400 CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan

Southern lagoon harbour of Maeotian Bata at Kuban Liman — 80 m timber quay at –1.5 m and fish weir.

🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site

Bata — Lagoon Harbour at Novomyshastovskaya (Batskoe Gorodishche South) — v2

Archaic to Late Antique (600 BCE – 400 CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan

Southern lagoon harbour of Maeotian Bata at Kuban Liman — 80 m timber quay at –1.5 m and fish weir.

🇷🇺 Russia · Kurgan

Uyuk Valley Second Kurgan Terrace (North Arzhan Satellite)

Early Iron Age (Arzhan-Chertomlyk) · Arzhan (Early Scythian / Saka Royal)

Second terrace north of Uyuk River (950 m, 52°03′N 93°51′E) in the Tuva Valley of the Kings, complementing Arzhan 1 (9th c BCE) and Arzhan 2 (7th c BCE) on south terrace and Tunnug 1 (9th c) centre.

🇷🇺 Russia · Kurgan

Ust-Koksa Kurgan Field (Katun Headwaters, Altai)

Early Iron Age (Pazyryk culture) · Pazyryk (Altai Scythian)

Katun River headwaters kurgan field (973 m, 50°16′11″N 85°36′39″E 50.2697,85.6108) on moraine terrace above Katun (Ust-Koksa village 973 m, Dfc climate, UTC+7), bridging Pazyryk culture (5th-3rd c…

🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site

Phanagoria – Sunken Bosporan Capital

Archaic Greek to Medieval (543 BCE – 10th c. CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan / Khazar / Byzantine / Russian

Greatest Greek city of Taman — one third now submerged under Taman Bay containing harbour and lower town.