Pages: 397-406

The article presents a brief information about the pre-Hellenistic sites situated at the Opuk Mountain (Black Sea coast of the Kerch Peninsula, the ancient town of Kimmerikon) and in its environs. Before the Greek colonization of the territory of European Bosporus this part of the coast was inhabited by the local semi-settled population. The author brings evidence from the Late Bronze archaeological sites of this region studied in 1900-1950 (excavations by Yu.Yu.Marti, I.B.Zeest and I.T.Kruglikova) and the results of his own research. At present, five settlements situated on maritime terraces of the Opuk, Priozernaya and Konchek Mountains, burial mounds and cysts (sometimes surrounded by cromlechs) dated by the Late Bronze Age are known at the Opuk and in its environs. Before the arrival of the first Greek colonists this population was forced out by the Scythians.