negatives reports
Ancient city of Chersonesos
 - North area
 - South area
 - West area
 - North-East area
 - South-East area
 - Central area
 - Citadel
 - Harbour area
 - Undetermined area
Necropoleis
 - Northern
 - Western
 - Near Karantinnaya bay
 - Undetermined necropolis
Chora
 - Heraclean peninsula
Environs
 - City Environs
 - Remote Environs
Museum
 - Exhibitions
 - Staff
 - Everyday life
Unidentified
Ancient city of Chersonesos
 - North area
 - South area
 - West area
 - North-East area
 - South-East area
 - Central area
 - Citadel
 - Harbour area
 - Undetermined area
Necropoleis
 - Northern
 - Western
 - Near Karantinnaya bay
 - Undetermined necropolis
Chora
 - Heraclean peninsula
Environs
 - City Environs
 - Remote Environs
Museum
 - Exhibitions
 - Staff
 - Everyday life
Unidentified

Ancient city of Chersonesos → Harbour area


Harbour Area is a gentle slope from a plateau and low-slope coast of the Karantin-naya Bay formed by sandy drifts. The area is limited by transverse street 6 on the north-east, longitudinal (south) street I on the north-west, and a section of transverse street 12 and south-east fortress walls of Chersonesos (curtain walls 16–18) on the west and south. On the east, the area is limited by both the line of the seaside fortification walls (curtain walls 37–39) and water’s edge of the Karantinnaya Bay.

The beginning of the excavations in this area is related to the name of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich. He discovered residential and cult constructions from the Medieval Period near the fortification walls and in the centre of the area; the so-called Bar-racks were excavated near the Greco-Roman gates. In the east of the area, where the museum (‘Warehouse of Local Antiquities’) was under construction, there also were large investigations.

The excavations of the Harbour Area were renovated in 1960s. These years and later, the teams of the Joint Expedition headed by I.A. Antonova, V.I. Kadeyev, A.I. Romanchuk, S.B. Sorochan, V.N. Danilenko and others uncovered medieval houses and churches, fortification and port constructions in the area. M.I. Zolotaryov and S.V. Dyachkov fully excavated Greco-Roman ‘Barracks’ in 1990s.

  Report of the Ural Team's excavations in Chersonesos in 1975
(Year: 1975. Author: Romanchuk A. I.)

Report of the Ural State University Team's excavations in Chersonesos (Port area, south-east section) in 1975.

1975 excavations were the continuation of systematic works in the Port area, which the Joint Team started in 1963. The excavations were made by the students of the Historic Faculty of the Ural University under the supervision of the head of the Crimean Expedition candidate of history A. I. Romanchuk.

  Album of illustrations of the Ural Team's excavations in Chersonesos in 1975 
(Year: 1975. Author: Romanchuk A. I.)
Album of illustrations of the Ural Team's excavations in Chersonesos in 1975.
  Report of the Ural State University's excavations in Chersonesos, in the Port Quarter, in its south-east area in 1974  
(Year: 1974. Author: Romanchuk A. I.)

1974 excavations were the continuation of systematic works in the Port Area, which had been started by the Joined Team in 1963. In contrast to the previous years, they were made in one area only, in the south-east.

  Album of illustrations to the report of the Ural State University's excavations in Chersonesos, in the Port Quarter, in its south-east area in 1974
(Year: 1974. Author: Romanchuk A. I.)
Illustrations to the report.
  Report of the conservtion of the Arcosolia Church and album of illustrations
(Year: 1975. Author: S. G. Ryzhov)

1963 excavations in the 'Port Area' of the ancient city of Chersonesos uncovered mediaeval quarter adjoining curtain walls 16 and 17 in the defensive wall. The area covered by ancient barracks included several mediaeval dwelling houses which open to a square in the south-east. The south-east side of the square was limited with the tenth-fourteenth century church, later known as the 'Arcosolia Church', because their walls had releiving archaes above ossuaty graves. During the period of excavations from 1963to 1970, the lower layers consisting of ground mound with cultural remains, above which the foundation of the church stood, were removed along the whole excavated area. In result, it turned out that the church stood above ground floors up to 1 m high, which greately collapsed due to climatic conditions.