Georgian port project falters but should survive

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Black Sea ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Investment Climate ◽  
The South ◽  
South Caucasus ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Water Port ◽  
Black Sea Coast ◽  
East West ◽  
Sea Coast

Subject The Anaklia port project. Significance An ambitious plan to build a new deep-water port on the eastern Black Sea coast has been delayed after one partner in the project consortium left and a possible substitute declined to join. Although uncertainty is hampering the project, external interest in the strategically located port, coupled with domestic pressure not to abandon the project, should keep it alive. Impacts Success would reinforce east-west connections in the South Caucasus as opposed to Russia-sponsored north-south initiatives. Failure to find large investors for Anaklia is likely to undermine the overall investment climate. Any progress at Anaklia will be a catalyst for Russia to ramp up efforts to build its own deep-water port.

Settlement of early Byzantine time at the Kyz-Aul necropolis

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Н.Ф. Федосеев ◽  
Л.Ю. Пономарев
Keyword(s):  
Black Sea ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Living Room ◽  
The South ◽  
Kerch Peninsula ◽  
Black Sea Coast ◽  
The Village ◽  
Sea Coast ◽  
Early Byzantine

Necropolis Kyz-Aul is located on the Black Sea coast, 1 km to the south-east of the village. Yakovenkovo. In 1930, 1979–1983, 1985, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2005–2006, 2015–2017, he was investigated by Yu. Martti, O. Chevelev, N. Sudarev and N. Fedoseev. Separate burials date back to the II–I BC, the burial of the I–III AD the most recent burials, apparently, were committed in the IV–V AD. In the VI – third quarter of the VII century AD on the territory of the already abandoned necropolis, a small settlement was located. Its cultural stratum is traced on all sites that have been followed in the last decade. As living quarters, the looted crypts of the 1st–3rd centuries AD were adapted, consisting of one or two funerary cells and built of massive blocks of limestone (№ 6, 7, 9, 10). With exception of the crypts of the poorly preserved pit of the semidugout (?) other residential and household buildings on the necropolis could not be fixed. One child burial also belongs to the same period. The most well-preserved living room in the crypt number 6. In one of its funerary cells housed five household pits and heating devices, including a fireplace, reminiscent of the design of the fireplace. In the other crypts, the interior details of the “underground” dwellings have not been preserved. In the “Khazar” time burial chamber crypts were adapted for the maintenance of small cattle. The time of the early Byzantine settlement on the necropolis dates numerous finds of amphorae. The upper date was determined thanks to the coin of 674 Constantine IV Pogonat. In addition, a ring with the image of an archangel was found, an analogy of which is known in the burial complexes of the 7th century. Unfortunately, the area and location of the necropolis of this settlement is not yet established. Cannot be reconstructed and its layout. It is difficult to reconstruct the interior of the “underground” dwellings themselves, since the crypts were reused in the “Khazar” period. In addition, no other settlements of this time were found on the ancient necropolises of the Kerch Peninsula

Georgian port focus shifts to Poti

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Black Sea ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Water Port

Significance Another port, Batumi, is also undergoing expansion. Both have overshadowed plans for a deep-water port at Anaklia. Impacts The Anaklia project raises some uncomfortable questions for prospective investors. Russia will complain when Western naval vessels dock at Poti. Expanded Black Sea terminal capacity will attract more freight coming from or via Central Asia.

scholarly journals North Caucasus aborigine population in VII-IX centuries Adighe-Zikhes and different states of Dagestan

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zaur Gumashvili
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Black Sea ◽  
Formation Process ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
The South ◽  
Black Sea Coast ◽  
Political Units ◽  
Sea Coast

The article sets out howthe formation process of Aborigen population - Adighe-Zikhes and Dagestan as astate, had developed in North Caucasus in VII-IX centuries.For that period, Adyghes occupied black sea coast in the South-East of Tamans peninsula which had been ruled by Gothic-Tetraksite. the mentioned process served to strengthen Zikhes tribe, which became quitsignificant and prominentevenearlier in 1st century BC. In VIII century there appear plenty of state units in the territory of Dagestan as a result of society development. The “kingdoms” such as Tabasaran, Sarir, Kaitag, Gumukand atc. become established. These political units owned the territories of Dagestan main ethnic groups. Within these political units went formation process of Dagestan Main ethnos.

scholarly journals The Nomadic World of the South of Eastern Europe in the 2nd - 1st Centuries BC (Eastern Innovations, Facts, Causes and Consequences)

2019 ◽  
pp. 20-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anatoliy Skripkin
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Black Sea ◽  
The South ◽  
Funeral Rites ◽  
Black Sea Coast ◽  
Burial Practice ◽  
Burial Rites ◽  
Sea Coast

Introduction. In the process of developing the chronology of early Sarmatian culture we have allocated the monuments dated by the 2nd - 1st centuries BC and characterized by their specificity both in the material culture and in burial rites. Methods and materials. This article is devoted to the series of items from the Sarmatian burials of the 2nd - 1st centuries BC from the south of Eastern Europe having close analogies in the sites of Central Asia. The items are represented with different types of swords, bronze openwork belt buckles, latticed and gigantic belt buckles, clay cubic censers, miniature copies of boilers and quivers with bows. Analysis. New features have been marked in the funeral rites. Burials in the decks got popularity, which had resemblance with the decks used in the burial practice of Tuva’s population of the last centuries BC. The percentage of northern orientation of the buried was significantly increased in some areas of the Volga and the Don regions. The analysis of the historical situation testifies to the migration of a number of nomadic groups away from China’s northwestern borders due to the aggressive policy of Xiongnu. This event caused the changes in ethnopolitical situation in Central Asia, the Greco-Bactrian kingdom ceased to exist due to nomadic attacks. The nomadic population of this region with the eastern elements in their culture had significantly increased. Great changes occured in the South Ural, the Volga-Don region and in the Northern Black Sea Coast, where the groups of nomads appeared which had not been mentioned in written sources before: Aorses, Siraki, Roksolans, Satarkhi. The occurred changes found reflection in written works of ancient authors. Results. Thus, the events that took place on the northern borders of China, associated with the formation of the Hunnish nomadic empire, led to a significant change in the ethnopolitical situation up to the Northern Black Sea Coast region.

scholarly journals Surface Waters of the South of Russia: Dynamics of Quality

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Black Sea ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Surface Water Quality ◽  
Rostov Oblast ◽  
Anthropogenic Factors ◽  
The South ◽  
Lower Volga ◽  
Black Sea Coast ◽  
Sea Coast

The dynamics of surface water quality in the South of Russia: basins of the Kuban, the Don, the Lower Volga, the Krasnodar Kray Caucasus Black Sea coast, has been shown. It is noted that the highest level of the water pollution in the Kuban River and its tributaries is typical for the period of 1992-1999. Deterioration of water quality in the mouth part of the Don (Rostov Oblast) and the Lower Volga (Astrakhan Oblast) is caused by the effect of anthropogenic factors, one of which is a result of activity of a large numbers of enterprises of various industries. Pollution of the rivers of the Krasnodar Kray Black Sea coast is low in comparison with the regions of higher industrial and agricultural development, taking into account a recreational use of these territories.

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