Information about the sites of Kurumchi culture from the personal collection of P.P. Khoroshikh in the archives collections of the Center for Oriental Manuscripts and Xylographs of the Institute of Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

The article introduces materials from the personal archive of P.P. Khoroshikh (F. 20), stored at the Center of Oriental Manuscripts and Xylographs of the Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, SB RAS. The fund has 10 cases (147, 150, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 344, 585), related to the study of Kurumchi culture. In this article, the authors have tried to rely on the taxonomy of P.P. Khoroshikh. So, according to archival materials, settlements with stone walls were described: the area of the Small Sea, in Krestovaya Bay, Uzur, Ludar, on Dain-Hoshun Mountain. Sites are the places of settlements on terraces: in the valleys of the Angara, Kuda, Lena, Unga rivers, near Ulan-Bor Mountain, at the mouth of the Selenga and Barguzin rivers, on the Ushkany Islands, Teterikha. Burial grounds were found on Olkhon Island, Abazaev Utug, on the shore of the Kurkut Bay, Elgai, near Lake Nur, Kulara, Sarma Street, Omulevaya Pad, Bolshaya Zama, Zama Street, near Zhalovsky Street, Onguren Street, near Holboy-Nur Lake, Haga-Aman, Zhida Street. Finds in caves were found on Skriper Mountain, in Kadilnaya Pad, in the valley of the Kurtun River, in Ityrhei Bay, on Bolshoy Ushkany Island, Ludarskaya and Baidinsky caves. Rock paintings: on the mountains of Orso, Sakhyurt, on the rocks in the bays of Shibete, Ityrhei, Aya, Angara, Kuda, Unga, Osa, Obusa, Lena basins, in the area “Shishkin shamanka”, near the village of Kartukhai, Mankhai mountains, Batog, Ulan-Khada, Malan-Khada, Buluk. Traces of ancient agriculture: near the villages of Elansi, Barturka, Kharazargai, Targan, Togot, Kulara, in the Kudinsk and Alar steppes, in the valleys of the Kudareika, Anga, Buguldeika, Kurtun and Sarma rivers, Tarskaya and Tunka basins. Ancient Turkic rune-like monuments: on the rocks of Krestovaya Bay, Petrovo.

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