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They can see from above … Roskosmos monitors the choir of Chersonesus

CrimeaPRESS reports:

The Russian Space Agency has released an image from the Resurs-P spacecraft showing the Ancient City of Tauric Chersonesos and its choir, a historical and architectural museum-reserve of the same name and a Russian UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Chersonese was founded around 400 BC. like an ancient Greek colony. Hora — its agricultural territory, evenly distributed into allotments, is a structural part of the ancient policies. The ruins of the polis itself, where Prince Vladimir was baptized in 988, are located in the upper part of the picture below in the zone under the number 1, to the right of it you can see the South Bay of Sevastopol. Excavations have been carried out here since the beginning of the 19th century, more than 10 hectares of buildings from all eras of the city’s existence (Greek, Roman, Byzantine) have been explored. Khersones settlement is the largest museum-supported archaeological site in Russia and the only ancient city of the Northern Black Sea regionnotes «Sevastopol newspaper».

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