The visit received much attention from Russian media. They presented Arkaim as the "homeland of the majority of contemporary people in Asia, and, partly, Europe". Zdanovich reportedly presented Arkaim to the president as a "possible national idea of Russia", which Shnirelman calls a new idea of a civilisation ― the "Russian idea". See also List of archaeoastronomical sites by country History of human settlement in the Ural Mountains References Citations Sources External links Google Maps location Archaeoastronomy Archaeological sites in Russia Bronze Age Asia Nomadic groups in Eurasia Former populated places in Russia History of Ural Indo-Iranian archaeological sites Bronze Age Russia Andronovo culture Cultural heritage monuments in Chelyabinsk Oblast Objects of cultural heritage of Russia of federal significance