Tanais Archaeological Reserve Museum

Tanais Archaeological Reserve Museum, or the Archaeological Museum-reserve Tanais is one of the largest historical and archaeological open-air reserve museum in Russia. It is additionally the primary archeological save historical center built up in Russia. It depends on the site of the antiquated city of Tanais. The city, named after the stream Tanais Don, was established in its mouth at the juncture to Meotida Azov Sea. The city of Tanais has assumed a noteworthy part in the political existence of urban areas of the Northern Black Sea Region and the neighboring zones of the Great Steppe for very nearly eight centuries.

Tanais was an antiquated city established in mid third century BC by Greek pioneers. It turned into a vital focus in the steppe district in the second to third century AD, yet was surrendered by the fifth century. Later settlements were built up close-by yet the site itself was not secured by later structures. The site was distinguished as Tanais in the mid nineteenth century, and archeological unearthings at the site started in 1853, which proceeded into the twentieth century. In 1955, the Academy of Sciences of USSR started a Lower-Don archeological campaign, which, as a team with the Rostov University and the Rostov Museum of Local Lore, started considering the site of the antiquated settlement.