ON ORIENTAL LINKS OF SARMATIANS IN THE II-I<sup>ST</sup> CENTURIES B.C
In the article presented the author on the basis of archaeologic and written sources considers the ethnopolitical situation in the Volga-Urals region in II-I centuries B.C. Presence of artifacts in the Sarmatian burials of this time which display analogies in the South Siberian and Central Asian monuments, data of anthropology give the ground to speak about appearance in the investigated region of a new nomadic population. At the same time there is a shifting of the nomadic population from Southern foothills of the Urals to the Lower Volga region. On this basis in the Lower Volga region we witness formation of a nomadic association led by top Aorces.