History students of BelSU establish borders of Scythian monument in Chernyansky district

The students of History and Philology Department of BSU and volunteers of the public organization "Society of Ancient History Lovers" took part in archaeological excavations at the site "Petropavlovka settlement-1" in Chernyansk district, as part of their research activities. The work was led by Tatiana Sarapulkina, the deputy director of museumification and protection of cultural heritage of the State Historical-Archeological Museum-Reserve "Tauric Chersonese".

The material found in the settlement is attributed by researchers to the Scythian period and the New Age.

This summer, the students of History and Philology Department took part in archaeological excavations in the territory of Krapivenskoe settlement in the Shebekinsky city district, where a multilayered monument containing deposits of Scythian time (V-IV centuries. BC.), Romenskaya culture (chronicles of the North, IX-X centuries. AD.) and the Old Russian time (XII-XIV centuries.) had been discovered. Another group worked on the Karalar coast of the Crimean Azov Sea coast, a place of an ancient settlement with the conventional name "Polyanka". The third group took part in large-scale works looking for the capital of the Khazar Kaganate city of Itil.