Except for those already mentioned (Sarkel, etc.) we should pay attention to a couple of toponyms more.
In the region of habitat of Ural cossacks there lies a stanitsa (Cossack village) of Mukhranovo. It clearly comes from the Kartvelian word of mukhrani meaning oak place. The case draws special attention for the fact that the Ural cossacks have a special kind of ragged carpet called teksmet (Dahl). In Kartvelian tekvsmeti means sixteen. The probability of that carpet being sewn out of sixteen rags is high. But the presence of kartvelisms in that region remains mysterious.
Besides, in Voronezh province there is a small town called Saguni which may be interpreted from Kartvelian point of view as Sa-gun-e - 'place of Huns' (Hun is Goon in Russian). The Huns clearly were present in these lands at certain point of the first centuries.
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