About 300 new historical and cultural monuments

The university hosted a round table dedicated to the interim results of comprehensive scientific research in Northern Kazakhstan. They were held within the framework of the project of the Science Committee of the MSHE of the Republic of Kazakhstan "Northern Kazakhstan in the context of cultural and historical processes: from the stone age to ethnographic modernity". The main area of study included North Kazakhstan region, Pavlodar and Kostanay regions.

Field research was conducted by 11 scientific teams, which included students and teachers of the FMNS. The expeditions participated in archaeological excavations, exploratory and ethnoarchaeological surveys in the North Kazakhstan, Pavlodar and Kostanay regions. In our region, the Mesolithic–Neolithic sites "Vinogradovka 2", the Early Iron Age burial mound "Berezovsky" and the medieval complex "Simonovka 11" were investigated.

Darkhan Baytileu, a leading researcher at the A.H.Margulan Institute of Archaeology, noted: "This year, the A.H.Margulan Institute of Archaeology initiated a program to study Northern Kazakhstan for the presence of monuments from the stone age to ethnographic modernity. Expeditions were held in 7 districts of North Kazakhstan region. In general, about 300 new monuments of the studied period have been discovered. The work carried out by our institute, local executive bodies and the M.Kozybayev NKU, as well as the regional Local History Museum allowed us to identify new milestones in the history of the North Kazakhstan Region. The accumulated material will form the basis of the catalog of archaeological evidence of Northern Kazakhstan, a new Set of archaeological monuments."

As a result of exploration work, over 300 monuments of historical and cultural heritage have been documented. The ethnographic team found more than 50 ancient dwellings, the remains of three mosques, a number of tombstones with carved Arabic script. 3 ancestral Kazakh necropolises were recorded and studied.