We dated Holocene and Late Pleistocene mollusc shells collected from coastal sediments of the Caspian, Barents, White and Black Seas by means of both a modified ²³⁰ Th/U method and the radiocarbon method. Essence of the modification is the removal of the surface (about 1/3 of the weight) of the mollusc shells by nitric acid as it may contain adsorbed detrital ²³² Th and ²³⁰ Th. The ²³⁰ Th/U dates of the inner part of the shells do not require detrital correction with the ²³² Th activity and well agree with the corresponding reservoir-corrected and calibrated ¹⁴ C ages of mollusc shells with ages between 1300 and 13,500 BP. We tested the modified ²³⁰ Th/U method on thick-walled and well-preserved mollusc shells from the transgression sediments of the Barentz, White and Black Seas derived during the Mikulino Interglacial (MIS 5e) and the Early Valday Glaciation (MIS 5c). The ²³⁰ Th/U ages of the inner part of the shells from the Boreal (Eem) transgression sediments of the Barentz and White Seas ranged from 86 to 114 ka and those from the Karangat (Eem) transgression in the Black Sea (Maly Kut and Eltigen sections) from 95 to 115 ka. The new ²³⁰ Th/U dates of the shells from the section Eltigen ranged from 100 to 125 ka..