Research in the North-Eastern Caspian region

The Volga-Ural expedition of the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR continued research on the medieval settlement of Ak-tobe near Guryev. On an area of ​​150 sq. m opened handicraft area of ​​the settlement—found ruins of furnaces for smelting iron and copper. Iron ridges, the remains of a copper smelter, were found. The excavations of the estate located in the same part of the settlement have begun in the Guryev region. Reconnaissance discovered Golden Horde settlements: 17 km from Guryev towards Uralsk, on the Black River, and in the tract Stary Andrey, near the village of Kulagino. In the same place, on the shore of the sai for the first time in the Guryev region settlements of the Bronze Age were discovered, where ceramics, ornamented with a roller, were collected.

In the Mangyshlak region, together with the Faculty of Geography of Moscow University and the local history museum of Fort Shevchenko, comprehensive studies were carried out related to the development of projects for the transfer of northern rivers to the Caspian Sea. In the coastal zone, research has begun on several sites that make it possible to date individual transgressions and regressions of the sea. These are the remains of a fishing settlement of the 16th-17th centuries near the well Sau-Kuduk, the medieval settlement of Sher Kala near Shetpe, where life ceased at the beginning of the 13th century, burial mounds of the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age near Sarytash. Of interest for this topic is the ancient trading post Ketik on the Tyub-Karagan peninsula, near Fort Shevchenko. To address issues related to the study of the region's moisture content, exploration was carried out in the sands of Sam (Mangyshlak region). As a result, a sizeable archaeological material of the Neolithic, Bronze, Early Iron, and Golden Horde was obtained.