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During 2024, archaeological teams from the Company’s scientific institute in Samara discovered 13 new archaeological sites in the Samara and Orenburg regions and carried out measures to ensure their preservation.
Rosneft cares about the preservation of historical and cultural heritage and, in accordance with Russian legislation, conducts archaeological surveys at the pre-project stage during any construction work.
In total, in 2024, the institute’s specialists surveyed 294 land plots allocated for economic development by the companies Samaraneftegaz and Orenburgneft (production assets of Rosneft).
In the areas where the work was carried out, 36 cultural heritage sites were discovered, including 13 archaeological sites that had not previously been recorded in historical sources and documents. Among them were four single burial mounds and eight burial mounds, as well as one settlement belonging to the Srubna culture*. In the course of determining the boundaries of cultural heritage sites, archaeologists extracted more than 200 finds – fragments of ornamented ceramic dishes and bones of domestic animals.
In addition, the institute’s archaeologists clarified the boundaries of previously identified cultural heritage sites – burial mound VIII near the village of Pogromnoye in the Orenburg Region, as well as the burial mound Nesmeyanovka I in the Samara Region. During the survey of the latter, eight previously unaccounted burial mounds were found; the complex currently includes 27 burial mounds.
* The Srubnaya cultural and historical community is an archaeological culture of the Late Bronze Age (18th-13th centuries BC). Geographically, it was widespread in the steppe and forest-steppe belts of Eastern Europe between the Dnieper and the Urals. In the Volga region and the Urals, the culture is widely represented by archaeological sites: settlements and burial mounds. Ethnicity: Indo-Iranians. The main activities of the representatives of the Srubnaya culture are cattle breeding and agriculture.
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Archaeological teams have been working at the Rosneft Samara Research Institute since 2019. Over five years, specialists have surveyed over 1,600 land plots for planned facilities, determined the boundaries and registered 193 archaeological sites (settlements, single burial mounds, burial mounds) with the state, and another 173 cultural heritage sites have undergone preservation monitoring and inspection.
Department of Information and Advertising of PJSC NK Rosneft January 31, 2025
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