Archaeological excavations on the territory of the USSR (1970-1989)

Workers of one of the archaeological expeditions excavate a hillside.

View of an archaeological excavation site during preliminary clearing, removing a layer of soil with bayonet shovels.

Clearing the slope of an archaeological excavation site, removing a vertical layer manually.

Installing a protection made of fabric scraps on a discovered artifact.

Fine clearing of a skeleton discovered in a burial.

Archaeologists use tweezers to extract valuables from the burial.

Clearing the skeleton with brushes.

Archaeologists clear the contents of a discovered sarcophagus.

The process of fine clearing a burial.

Human remains in a discovered burial, part of a preserved burial decoration on the skull, archaeologists extract fragments of bones and decorations.

Archaeologists clearing and examining a discovered burial (top).

The head of the archaeological expedition examines the discovered burial.

Archaeologists conduct a fine clearing of human remains.

Archaeologists examine discovered rock paintings, carry out fine cleaning.

Photographing rock paintings.

Archaeologists work in an underground cave.

Highlighting rock paintings with paint for subsequent photography.

View of a stone structure, archaeologists examine it.

One of the archaeologists conducts excavations.

Archaeologist's hands.

Archaeologist's face, panorama of part of the excavated structure and remains of water pipes.

Stone tool with a hole in the hands of an archaeologist.

Human figurine discovered during excavations.

Fragments of cutting and chopping ancient tools made of stone and other hard materials on the palm of an archaeologist.

Members of the archaeological expedition climb boulders, determining the location of the future excavation.

View of an archaeological excavation, archaeology students at work.

Interns search for artifacts in the earth poured into stretchers and wooden trays.

Panorama of the excavation on the city street near the ancient building (above).

Archaeology students dig in the soil, carry a stretcher with soil out of the excavation.

Extracting soil from the excavation, searching for and extracting artifacts.

View of part of the ancient burial uncovered by archaeologists, human bones extracted from the excavation.

The face of one of the archaeologists.

Archaeologists clean human remains in the uncovered burial (top).

View of the discovered human skeleton.

Removing a layer of dust and sand from human remains and utensils discovered in the burial.

Panorama of human bones discovered in the burial, archaeologists' tools lying nearby (top).

The face of an archaeologist cleaning a discovered artifact with a brush.

The face of a participant in an archaeological expedition cleaning a human skull with a brush.

The hands of an archaeologist cleaning a discovered artifact.

A participant in the expedition holds a tablet with a plan of the site attached to it.

Determining and recording the sizes of the surviving parts of a wooden structure using a tape measure.

The sun shines through the tree branches, a panorama of an archaeological excavation site in the forest.

Panorama of a forest excavation site, members of an archaeological expedition shovelling soil out of the pits.

Measuring the excavation site wall.

Archaeologists clearing a stone slab.

Archaeologists excavate the streets of an ancient city, a view of the excavation site.

Archaeologists inspecting a find extracted from the ground.

Archaeologists at work, a panorama and a view of the excavated underground part of a stone house.

Stone sculptures and gravestones discovered by an archaeological expedition.

The head of an ancient statue.

Panorama of an excavation site of an ancient settlement, archaeologists at work.

Pages of an ancient chronicle, the title page of the "Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles".

The hands of archaeologists with figurines and items extracted from the ground.

Examples of tableware and ancient Russian items discovered by archaeologists.

A view of one of the ancient princely charters.

A seal on a charter.

The face of Christ the Savior on an icon.

Fragments of reproductions of ancient Russian icons.

Icon of St.

Archangel Michael.

Summer river landscape, panorama of sand cliff with pine trees growing on it, archaeologists standing on the edge of the cliff.

Archaeologists using surveying instruments - a theodolite and a rangefinder rod bind the excavation to the terrain (panorama).

Archaeologists on the edge of a sand cliff try to study cultural layers.

Archaeologists at an excavation in the forest.

Drawing a scheme of the excavation, the face of an archaeologist.

Cleaning the discovered archaeological find with a brush.

View of a forest excavation, an archaeologist with a rangefinder rod.

View of part of an ancient city in Central Asia excavated by archaeologists, outlines of house foundations.

View of a settlement near which archaeological excavations are being conducted.

Panorama of the square and part of the surviving walls.

Religious buildings discovered and excavated by archaeologists at sunset.

Panorama of the remains of the walls of an ancient fortress.

Panorama of part of the excavated city, archaeologists at work in the corner of the excavation.

Cleaning the discovered stone slabs with a special brush.

Archaeologist with a theodolite.

View of part of the excavated city square, archaeologist cleaning stone slabs.

Cleaning the surviving fragments of the stone floor with a special brush.

Cleaning sand and dust from an icon carved on one of the stones.

Archaeologist at work cleaning the discovered finds.

View of one of the excavations (from above).

View of part of the city at the foot of the mountains excavated by archaeologists.

Panorama of the seashore in the North, archaeologists on the shore excavating a burial site of members of one of the expeditions.

An archaeologist with a theodolite during geodetic referencing of the excavation to the area.

Tamping the earth at the base of a memorial wooden cross.

Installing a memorial cross.

View of the installed cross on guy wires.

Excavations on the shore (panorama), archaeologists during the search.

Panorama of the excavation area, archaeologists at work.

Clearing a layer of stone pebbles with a shovel.

A fragment of the discovered remains of the side of a wooden ship, searching with a metal detector.

A fragment of metal tools discovered by archaeologists.

Remains of wooden barrels, dwellings and other finds discovered during excavations (panorama).

Fragments of weapons and a cast-iron cannonball.

Tools, nails, door latches, axes discovered by archaeologists.