🇷🇺 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.
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🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
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 · Submerged site
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
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
Early Holocene wetland to Late Antiquity · Bosporan Greek
Southern mole of Gorgippia — 75 m rubble breakwater at 4–6 m protecting Sukko anchorage in Anapa Bay.
🇷🇺 Russia · Buried city
Archaic to Medieval (540 BCE – 1000 CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan / Sarmatian / Khazar
Bosporus capital 540 BCE — eastern harbour lobe 400x200 m silted +2 m 500 m inland with 80 m mole vs western −7 m.