Pages: 191-208

Archaeological materials (remains of burials, metal, glass and stone wares) of the Uvek site of the Golden Horde time by preserved archival materials are published and briefly characterized in this article. The Uvek hillfort is the largest settlement of the northern part of the Lower Volga region, it is identified as the large Golden Horde city of Ukek and situated in the southern outskirts of modern Saratov. The described archaeological finds have been registered and collected by the Saratov Research Archival Commission and Research Society of regional ethnography ‘Istarkhet’, and then decommissioned and lost for researchers. However, small, and often just minimal information on the found burials and separate objects has been preserved in the Inventory Register of the Museum of the Saratov Research Archival Commission, and in Commission’s archives (their main part is now kept in the State Archive of the Saratov region) and some publications. We have tried to generalize and systematize this information, accompanying the description of archaeological materials (by archival records) with references to the place and time of finds, the person from whom these objects were received, and documents in which they were described. The items listed in the annexed archival materials were obviously found on the Uvek hillfort in 1870s, 1893, 1895, 1897—1898, 1902, 1904—1915 and 1918.

Keywords: Uvek site, Lower Volga basin, Golden Horde, archival materials, archaeological finds

Information about author:

Leonard Nedashkovsky (Kazan, Russian Federation). Doctor of Historical Sciences. Kazan (Volga region) Federal University. Kremlyovskaya St., 18, Kazan, 420008, Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation
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