A documentary review of the Dargavs necropolis in North Ossetia-Alania, a city of the dead with nearly 10,000 buried remains. The video tells about the origin of the unique method of burial in stone crypts, artifacts and legends, and also mentions the tragedy in the neighboring Karmadon Gorge at the foot of the Caucasus Range.
- Duration
- 12 min 33 s
- Start
- Dargavs Necropolis
- End
- Karmadon Canyon
- Stops
- 3
- Channel author
- НАД ГОРОДАМИ
Timestamps and places
- — Dargavs Necropolis (Russian cities as fortresses)
- — Caucasus Mountain Range (Caucasus Mountains approach)
- — Karmadon Canyon (City of the Dead (Dargavs) introduction)
- — Necropolis and 14th-century origins
- — Burial goods from Georgia, Russia, Dagestan, Eastern regions
- — Dar-Gapps Ossetian settlement etymology ('defender of the gorge')
- — Valley location between mountain ridges
- — Karmadon Gorge tragedy (Bodrov Jr.)