Archaeological sites of the Iron Age in the Sayan Canyon of the Yenisei River (Ulug-Khem)
The Sayan Canyon of the Yenisei River (Ulug-Khem) connects the Minusinsk steppe with Central Tuva representing the shortest route between these regions. Among the goals of the Expedition there was the identification of the cultural and regional belonging of the revealed barrows. By the moment of the filling of the reservoir, about 150 archaeological objects had been investigated on the both banks of the canyon. Among them, structures of different chronological periods from the Bronze Age to the Mongol times were identified.