DARGAVS, Russia -- A Moscow-based film company has dropped its plans to shoot a low-budget horror thriller at the village of Dargavs near a fabled medieval necropolis in southern Russia. That's ...

Located on the edge of the village of Dargavs, in the republic of North Ossetia–Alania, in Russia, is an ancient cemetery or necropolis. It is often called the ‘city of the dead’, although the name is ...

Hidden away in the Caucasus mountains, a city awaits that holds such a grim history — locals believe those who enter the eerie city will never return. A cluster of peaked rooves and single window ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Russia's Republic of North Ossetia, they are not just living with the current pandemic. They have visual reminder of those that ...

If you think your country’s quarantine measures are strict, come to the North Ossetian village of Dargavs. In plague times, locals would have to move into the local necropolis… often for good. North ...

The Dargavs Necropolis is a strange place in every respect. It consists of “houses with windows”, with skulls, skeletons and mummified body parts inside. There used to be writing on the wall of one of ...

For years after the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, and especially the Ossetian-Ingush conflict of 1992, North Ossetian politicians presented their republic as Russia's ‘outpost’ in the Caucasus.

Dargavs Town, often referred to as the “City of the Dead,” is a mysterious ancient necropolis located in North Ossetia, nestled within the dramatic landscapes of the Caucasus Mountains. The hillside ...