Excavations of Tauric Chersonesos have been underway for almost years, which have long brought him the well-deserved glory of the "Russian Troy." But only relatively recently, archaeologists went beyond the walls of the ancient city in search of its agricultural territory and cities subject to it, fortified and unsecured settlements. And here they were waiting for interesting discoveries. The book for the first time tells about the study of the entire Kherson state of its heyday, about new discoveries of archaeologists in the vicinity of Sevastopol, Evpatoria, on the shores of the Tarkhankut Peninsula, about the problems facing modern researchers.