History of Russia: Okhta cape’s archaeological finds on display in St. Petersburg

An exhibition of archaeological finds, discovered on the Okhta cape, right where “Gazprom Neft” is going to erect its 400-meters-high skyscraper, kicked off on June 2 in St. Petersburg.

An exhibition, initiated by the St. Petersburg branch of the All-Russian Society for Protection of Monuments of History and Culture, St. Petersburg Union of Architects and St. Petersburg Archaeological Expedition, brings the history and archaeology of the Okhta cape into a focus. It is displaying photographs, showing monuments and archaeological finds, as well as project’s proposals for their further preservation.

As a result of many years excavations on the Okhta cape here were discovered and examined the sites of ancient people of 5-2 centuries B. C., fortifications of a medieval settlement and Swedish fortresses of Landskrona (13 c.) and Nyenschantz (17 c.), as well as a late medieval cemetery of the Russian settlement Nevskoye ustye.

The exhibition will be open up to June 18.