1680. Дроздов Н.И.: Арктическая Троя. Археология Крайнего Севера

Issue 1680. February 13, 2026. "Arctic Troy. Archaeology of the Far North." About neighboring countries' claims to Russia's northern territories, the ancient peoples' desire to discover new lands, Russian pioneers and geographical expeditions, the discovery of 40,000-year-old Stone Age tools and art objects in the North, the advance of ancient people across periglacial steppes, how northern people invented warm clothing, transportation, and shelter for the North, and the discoveries of A.P. Okladnikova, about how school textbooks lag behind modern archaeological discoveries, about Leonid Pavlovich Khlobystin's large-scale Arctic expeditions and the discovery of 200 ancient human sites in the North, about the discovery of bronze smelters in Taimyr dating back to ancient Troy, and about understanding the gigantic scale of the northern economy during the Copper Age and Neolithic—watch and listen to the latest conversation in the "Siberian Antiquities" series. Our guest at the Russian Radio University is Nikolai Ivanovich Drozdov, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Director of the Siberian Institute of the International Innovative University, and Professor in the Department of Russian History at Siberian Federal University (Krasnoyarsk). The episode premiered on February 13, 2026.