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East-Kazakhstan region

East Kazakhstan - is the territory that connects South Siberia and the Altai with Semirechye and Central Asia. Due to the geographical position, it played an important role in the historical development of the tribes and peoples of Western Asia at all times.

Archaeological excavations show that the region was inhabited since ancient times. This is evidenced by the traces of ancient mining developments, irrigation canals, and the ruins of numerous structures preserved in the Altai, in the Zaisan hollow, on the slopes of the Saur and Tarbagatai ranges.

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Shiliktinskiy mounds

East-Kazakhstan region

The Shiliktinskiy Valley has more than two hundred monuments of the early Iron Age (VII-V centuries BC). Of these, about 130 Saka-Scythian burial mounds that are located in its central part, on an area covering 1.5 km in width and is 6 km long. Such a dense concentration of elite monuments of Saka culture on a small area in Kazakhstan is very rare. In addition, in the valley and in the foothills there are settlements and burial grounds of the Bronze Age: fences, mounds and stone sculptures of the Turkic time. The mountains surrounding the valley are rich in rock paintings, dating back to the Bronze Age to the late Middle Ages. In 2004, a sensation was the find of the third Golden Man. He is about 4 centuries older than the first one, found in the Issyk mound. Historians believe that royal shacks lived in the Shiliktinskiy Valley. The erection of such a huge mound required a great organization of labor and high discipline.

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