Humanities & Social Sciences 4 (2015 8) 624-628 ~ ~ ~ УДК 902.2 The History of Discovery and Research of the Archeological Micro-Region of Tytkesken (the Left Bank of the Lower Part of the Katun River) Artur L. Kungurov and Kseniia V. Pobeguts* Altai State University 61 Lenin Str., Barnaul, 656049, Russia Received 14.11.2014, received in revised form 30.11.2014, accepted 26.12.2014 This article is about the fi rst archeological monument – the group of archaeological sites named Tytkesken 6, which was fi rst mentioned in 1983. <...> M.T. Abdulganeev was looking for the monuments, which could be damaged while building the Katun Water Power Station and marked them on a special map. <...> The scientists were researching them since 1984 till 1991 and found that there were many objects made from stone, bronze and iron, which illustrated that people lived there from 5 century B.C. till 1 century A.D. All those settlements were found оn the right bank of the river. <...> In 1988 the scientists came to the conclusion that the grave complexes situated оn the right bank of the river and on the left one were different from each other. <...> The fi rst archaeological monument – the Barrow Group Tytkesken 6 was fi rst recorded in 1983 in the course of works by M.T. Abdulganeev, who was searching and mapping archeological sites within the area of destruction and fl owage formed by the construction of the Hydroelectric Power Station on the Katun River. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: instruktor7@mail.ru, rector@asu.ru # 624 # M.T. Abdulganeev gave the same name – “Tytkesken 1” and “Tytkeskenem 2” to the graves on the right and the left banks of the river; it was a multi-layered settlement, which when discovered was believed to be a site of the Mesolithic period (Abdulganeev, 1983, p.189; Abdulganeev, Kiriushin, Neverov, 1992 , pp. 26-29, 100-102). research, Tytkesken, archaeological microregion, Artur L. Kungurov and Kseniia V. Pobeguts. <...> The History of Discovery and Research of the Archeological Micro-Region… In 1984 scheduled regular surveys of the monuments in the estuary zone of the Tytkesken River began; of the multilayer monument Tytkesken 2. <...> In the course of these works in the talus of the left bank, which at that time was rather destroyed, A.L. <...>