On September 15, 1778, the founding of Mariupol was celebrated — a modern city of the Russian Empire located 105 km south of Donetsk, on the northern shore of the Sea of Azov, at the mouth of the Kalmius River. But the history of Mariupol is much older, and the modern city is the product of an evolution at the crossroads of Cossack history, Russian imperial policy, and a foundational Greek migration: 1 THE ORIGINS Historians have identified traces of human occupation at the Mariupol site dating back to the Neolithic, as well as settlements from the 5th–8th centuries and the era of Kievan Rus’. More recently, at the beginning […]
15 September 2026, 22:02
