Ust-Katav 2 pisanitsa in the Southern Urals
The paper is focused on the materials of the Ust-Katav 2 pisanitsa (rock art site) found in 2015. This Southern Ural site is located on the right bank of the Yuryuzan River, in Ust-Katav urban district of Chelyabinsk Region. The article details the history of the formation of the “Gerasimov Kamen” rock where prehistoric images were created as well as the history of the rock art site founding and study. The authors identified five areas with images. Among them, there was revealed a figure of an ungulate with a forked end of the leg (legs?), which is unique for the Ural region. Documentation of the rock art materials was carried out by contactless photography. The resulting photographs of the drawings were processed with a graphics editing software to enhance the colour and build pigment maps for better visualization. Information about of the graphic motives was grouped into a table. The study includes preliminary interpretation and dating of the site's images.