According to the conclusions made by the prominent Soviet ethnographer and Caucasus specialist, professor, doctor of historical sciences A. V. Gadlo, who headed the Caucasian archaeological and ethnographic expedition of Leningrad State University, the city was founded by the Alans (tribes of the Iranian-speaking group), presumably in 212. Subsequently, throughout the 3rd century, a port point of the Bosporan Kingdom functioned here.
At the turn of the 3rd and 4th centuries, the bay near modern Uyutnoye (the western part of Sudak) became the object of close attention of the Roman military administration.
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