InKend
Info on popular culture and everyday life
InKend
Info on popular culture and everyday life
One of Russia’s oldest towns, Staraya Ladoga was a Viking-era trade hub and, by tradition, an early seat of the Rurik dynasty.
One of Russia’s oldest cities, Derbent guarded the narrow Caspian Gates with colossal Sasanian walls and the fortress of Naryn-Kala.
At the mouth of the Don, the northernmost Greek city traded wine for grain and blended Greeks and Sarmatians for centuries.
On the Don River, some of Europe’s first modern humans hunted mammoths, carved figurines, and built homes of bone 40,000 years ago.
Nearly 4,000 years ago on the Ural steppe, people built a perfectly circular fortified town, raced the first chariots, then burned it down.
