Лысая гора, Steep riverbank in Voronezh, Russia

Lysaya Gora is a steep, actively eroding bluff on the right bank of the Voronezh River, now the shore of the Voronezh Reservoir, beside the Gorky Sanatorium in Voronezh. The slope rises almost 50 metres above the water and exposes brown Quaternary loams and whitish loose sands that crumble from the top toward the foot.

A group of small Slavic burial mounds from the 9th century lies beside the top of the cliff. The advancing edge of the gully has already partly covered them with slope material, and the summit itself is gradually shifting toward the watershed next to the graves.

The name Lysaya Gora means "Bald Mountain", a common Russian toponym for an exposed, treeless height. The slope above the Voronezh Reservoir is also the setting of the ninth-century Slavic burial ground, and the advancing cliff edge is gradually burying part of it. Visitors can see the brown loam and pale sand of the scarp where the kurgan group lies.

The cliff stands on the right bank of the Voronezh River by the Gorky sanatorium, and its edge is actively crumbling, so keep back from the lip where brown Quaternary loams and white loose sands slide down. The top is reached on foot; no marked trails or car park are recorded here. The slope is gradually burying the ninth-century Slavic burial ground beside the summit.

The summit is slowly moving toward the watershed: erosion pushes the crest back until it reaches the ninth-century Slavic burial mounds beside it, some of which the slope has already partly covered. The cliff face itself rises almost 50 metres above the river level.