Russian Megalithic sites.

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juamei J
juamei Mar 26, 2014 16:54:24
Replying to BigSweetie

BigSweetie wrote:
There seem to be quite a significant number of megalithic sites across Russia but they're generally not well documented, and there doesn't seem to be much local interest really.
Do you know how far east the megaliths go? or any dating? Dolmens seem to exist in some of the near east and north up through to the caucuses.

B BigSweetie
BigSweetie Mar 26, 2014 17:31:26
Replying to juamei

juamei wrote:
Do you know how far east the megaliths go? or any dating? Dolmens seem to exist in some of the near east and north up through to the caucuses.
There's a concentration of them around the Black Sea coast of southern Russia and the northern western Caucasus. There's a guy who runs tours of some of these ones in the summer if you're feeling intrepid!

I've also seen references to megaliths around the White Sea coast, which doesn't answer your question as it's to the north, just east of Finland.

There are certainly megaliths as far east as the Urals, which is quite far east in European terms but quite western in Russian terms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaliths_in_the_Urals

I've also read that there are some megalithic sites in "central Siberia" (i.e. well beyond the Urals) but I don't know any more than that.

R ryaner
ryaner Mar 26, 2014 17:53:32
Replying to juamei

http://www.wmf.org/project/damiya-dolmen-field

http://www.megalithindia.in/2012/02/dolmens-of-india.html?m=1

They're everywhere! :-)

G gorseddphungus
gorseddphungus Mar 26, 2014 20:50:42
Replying to juamei

The circles of the Urals attract a fair number of Russian New Age characters, and there are also said to be Siberian stones, probably related to the Mongolian menhirs, but this is all scattered in a very vast unpopulated area. If you're asking about how far 'east' of Siberia, not Russia, then the whole tradition there might be linked with all of the Jomon ceremonial stones of northern Japan (circles, etc), which, much later, was used in extensive Kohun tomb building, but hey, even North Korea is said to have thousands and thousands of very neat Irish-looking dolmens.