Аннотация:We studied the columns of boreholes and of sediment cores in the Taman shelf area and on the Caucasian continental slope, which reveal shallow and deep-water facies of the interglacial Karangat horizon. Shallow-water deposits include clayey and sandy-shell varieties, containing stenohaline marine mollusk fauna. Deep-water deposits are sapropel and coccolith layers with marine flora of diatom algae and coccolithophorids.