Arkaim (Russian: Аркаим) is an archaeological site situated in the Southern Ural steppe, 8.2 km (5.10 mi) north-to-northwest of the village of Amurskiy and 2.3 km (1.43 mi) south-to-southeast of the village of Alexandrovskiy, in the Chelyabinsk Oblast, just north of the Russian/Kazakhstan border.