Karachay-Cherkessia

This region attracts many tourists and sportsmen and keeps numerous wonderful historical-architectural monuments. Southward Cherkessk, near city Ust-Djeguta is situated a Bronze Era kurgan (lll-ll thousand years B.C.), where bronze blazonry, carving ceramics. On the right riverside of the Kuban is a low upland, where is a Chumarinskoe settlement - the true treasure for historians and archeologists. Teberda river-valley and lower Arhiz keep plenty of medieval religious buildings among which are: Byzantine Church of X-XI centuries upon a mountain Shoana end Sentinsky Church in the lower Tibet of the same age.