Places in Russia

Places in Russia · Mysteria

🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus

Shalobolino Kurgans

Early Iron Age Tagar culture 700-400 BCE · Tagar (Minusinsk Basin)

700 BCE Tagar royal kurgans (8 mounds, 40-85 m) on Yenisei terrace co-located with 3,000-panel rock-art cliff at Shalobolino.

🇷🇺 Russia · Archaeological wonder

Peremyshl, Muscovy

Peremyshl (Russian: Перемышль) was a town in the Grand Duchy of Moscow located on the right bank of the Mocha River, within the Troitsky Administrative Okrug of Moscow, to the west of the Dmitrovo…

🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site

Phanagoria — Tuzla Spit Western Anchorage (Taman Peninsula)

Archaic to Late Antique (543 BCE – 600 CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan Kingdom

Western roadstead of Phanagoria 2–4 m under Taman Bay west of Tuzla Spit — timber jetties and salting quarter 220 m offshore.

🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site

Toricos — Cape Toretae Southern Harbour (Anapa South Cape)

Archaic to Hellenistic (560 BCE – 50 BCE) · Toretae Maeotian / Greek

Southern cape harbour of Toricos at Toretae Cape — 45 m jetty at –2.5 m and breakwater spur.

🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus

Tuekta Kurgans – Pazyryk Culture Royal Necropolis

Early Iron Age, Scytho-Siberian Pazyryk · Pazyryk (Scytho-Siberian) culture

600–400 BCE Pazyryk royal barrows (early plateau ancestors)—8 horses and earliest Altai felt art.

🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus

Pokrovka Kurgans – Sauromatian–Early Sarmatian Necropolis

Early Iron Age (Sauromatian to Early Sarmatian) · Sauromatian / Early Sarmatian (Prokhorovka)

40+ Sauromatian–Early Sarmatian kurgans (600–200 BCE) — 'Amazon' female warrior necropolis on Ilek River.

🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site

Gorgippia — Southern Breakwater at Anapa Bay

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 · Submerged site

Phanagoria — Eastern Lobe Submerged Lower Town (Taman Bay)

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

Easternmost third of Phanagoria submerged 1–5 m in Taman Bay — harbour mole, shipwreck and street grid 300 m offshore.

🇷🇺 Russia · Temple complex

Andronikov Monastery

Andronikov Monastery of the Saviour (Russian: Андро́ников монасты́рь, romanized: Andrónikov monastýr', Russian: Спа́со-Андро́ников монасты́рь, romanized: Spáso-Andrónikov monastýr', or Russian:…

🇷🇺 Russia · Ancient city

Hyperborea – Land Beyond the North Wind

Archaic to Hellenistic literature (688 BCE earliest to 4th c. via Callimachus) · Greek poetical–geographic tradition

Pindar–Herodotus utopia beyond the North Wind where hyperboreans send first-fruits to Delos and Apollo winters.

🇷🇺 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

Gorgippia — Northern Basin Breakwater Extension (Anapa Bay North)

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

Northern breakwater of Gorgippia at Anapa Bay north — 150 m ashlar mole at –2 m and warehouse podium.

🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site

Gorgippia — Northern Basin Breakwater Extension (Anapa Bay North) — v2

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

Northern breakwater of Gorgippia at Anapa Bay north — 150 m ashlar mole at –2 m and warehouse podium.

🇷🇺 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.

🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site

Patrai — Western Emporium Anchorage at Taman Strait (Western Strait)

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

Western strait emporium of Patrai at Taman Strait — 70 m mole at –3 m and customs quay with moorings.

🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site

Pantikapaion — Harbour and Submerged North Slope (Kerch Bay)

Archaic to Late Antique (c.600 BCE – 375 CE) · Milesian Greek / Bosporan Kingdom

Bosporan capital on Mount Mithridat — lower harbour and north-slope warehouses now 0.5–3 m submerged in Kerch Bay.

🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site

Patrai — Strait Emporium Submerged (Kerch Strait Taman Shore)

Archaic to Roman (c.550 BCE – 240 CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan

Kerch Strait narrows emporium — lower harbour 1.5–4 m submerged on Taman spit opposite Kerch, controls Bosporus passage.

🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site

Phanagoria — Submerged Harbour Mole North (Taman, Ancillary)

Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime

Phanagoria — Submerged Harbour Mole North (Taman, Ancillary) in Krasnodar, Taman Peninsula, Phanagoria North Harbour, Russia is a Bronze Age to Classical (…

🇷🇺 Russia · Ancient city

Derbent — Naryn-Kala Citadel and Double Walls (Caspian Gates)

Caucasian Albania to Sasanian to Islamic (c.100 BCE–19th c.; peak Sasanian 6th c.) · Caucasian Albanian → Sasanian Persian → Khazar → Arab → Shirvanshah → Russian

Sasanian 3.6 km double-wall Caspian Gates with Naryn-Kala citadel sealing Caucasus passage.

🇷🇺 Russia · Archaeological wonder

Arzhan Royal Kurgan

Early Scythian (~900–700 BCE) · Aldy-Bel / Arzhan (early Scythian–Siberian)

Enormous 120-m stone platform kurgan in the Uyuk depression, where archaeologists led by Gryaznov and later Chugunov uncovered a radial larch log mortuary house with central royal double burial and…

🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site

Phanagoria Eastern Harbour — Taman Peninsula Extension

Greek–Pontic (543 BCE–400 CE) · Milesian Greek / Bosporan Kingdom

Phanagoria Eastern Harbour — Taman Peninsula Extension in Krasnodar Krai, Russia is a Greek–Pontic (543 BCE–400 CE) submerged-city attributed to Milesian Greek / Bosporan Kingdom.

🇷🇺 Russia · Hillfort