The National Centre RUSSIA invites visitors on a journey through the country’s ancient rock art

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Russia is home to remarkable treasures of rock art spanning an extensive period of history — from the Stone Age to ethnographic modernity. Visitors can learn more about these unique monuments on 19 June at 19:00 at the National Centre RUSSIA during a new event in the "Conversations with Stanislav Drobyshevsky" series.

The meeting will focus on cave paintings, petroglyphs and pictographs scattered across the country, from Karelia to Siberia. Created in different eras — from the Stone Age to ethnographic modernity — these images can be seen as messages from the past and an important part of Russia's cultural code.

The speakers will be:

Stanislav Drobyshevsky — anthropologist, Associate Professor at Lomonosov Moscow State University, co-founder of the Anthropogenesis.ru portal and founder of the "Drobyshevsky's Projects" initiative;

Yelena Levanova — Head of the Centre for Palaeoart at the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Associate Professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities.

Visitors will discover where Russia's most significant rock art sites have been preserved, how scholars study them, and why these ancient images continue to provide important insights into understanding the past.

The National Centre RUSSIA invites everyone interested in history, archaeology and lively discussions about how the past continues to speak to us today.