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The author discovered an area of unravaged burial complexes on the territory of the Lower Katun mountainous valley regarded a part of the trans-cultural region where large multicultural necropoles were formed. The burial mound group of Chulkov Log-1 is one of them. The monument is located along the Chuya Highway, 1.5 km away to the north-west from the town of Manzherok, Mayminsky District, near the mountainous slope of the Iolgo ridge branches. The burial mound group includes 123 burial mounds with stone structure...

Strangely, some parts of the Altai Mountains have no petroglyphs at all, while others are like alfresco picture galleries from millennia past. One such place is remote Saldyar, on the banks of the Katun River, a place separated from the outside world by the high jagged peaks of the Saldyarskiy pass. The most popular images on Saldyar: Siberian mountain goat, long horned bull, deer, hunter standing beside the animal. In Saldyar that 5000 years after the first works were carved that they would form one of the greate...