This full-scale research is targeted at providing preservation of the objects of cultural and historical heritage in the Kuragino-Kyzyl railway works zone.
There have been detected so far over 70 archaeological landmarks waiting to be researched. The expedition is rated at 5 years and will be funded from the grant of Russian Geographical Society.
Russian Geographical Society has amassed a great experience in analytical and scientific maintenance of railway construction works in Russia. During the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway among the Society’s members emeriti were ministers of railways – Konstantin Nikolayevich Pos’et and Mikhail Ivanovich Hilkov.
Published in 1858, the work of the Society’s member, professor D. Anuchin’s ‘Transporation of Troops via Railway’ played a big part in the development of railway network in Russia. His ‘Map of Railway Network in European Russia’ with captions had been re-published by the General Staff throughout 20 years.
Goals:
- Provision of preservation of the objects of cultural and historical heritage in the Kuragino-Kyzyl railway construction zone(42 sites on the Tuva territory and 31 sites on the territory of Krasnoyarsk Krai).
Objectives:
- Conduct of a complex of reconnaissance and preservation-and-rescue excavations of archaeological landmarks in situ.
- Additional inspection of the uninspected parts of the railway.
Contractor:
The Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Siberian division of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Project participant:
Juli Hudyakov, the main research fellow of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Siberian department of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historic Sciences.
Results:
The inspection of Scythian burial grounds on the right bank of the Eerbek river;
The inspection of the site Kara-Orga in the Uyuk hollow. The site dates back to the Bronze Age and is located 1.5 km away from the famous tumulus Ajan-2.
On the burial ground of Eki-Ottug a complex of tumuli was found dating back to the early Scythian epoch (Aldi-Belsk culture, from the 7th to the 6th centuries BC). These tumuli contained weaponry: a dagger, knives, arrow heads, sharpening stones; mirrors, remains of golden accessories, bronze belt buckles and clips.
On the burial ground Sausken-3 the burials of Uyuk (from the 6th to the 4th centuries BC) and Saglyn(from the 4th to the 2nd centuries BC) cultures were researched.
9 burials were excavated wherein were found arrow ends, belt accessories, fragments of golden patches.
On the Kara-Ora site (dated to the Bronze Age, Okunev culture) were found stelae with guises.