Pages: 509-520

The article offers materials of research on the complex of the Golden Horde sites found near Krasnyi village, Bobrov District of the Voronezh Oblast. The complex included the remains of two mausoleums, a settlement, and a kiln for firing bricks. Mausoleum 1 and the kiln were studied by V. P. Levasheva in 1948. Here the main attention focuses on the results of excavations in mausoleum 2, conducted by the expedition of the Voronezh State University in 1989 and 2002. The dimensions of the mausoleum are 21,5×10,5 m. It belongs to a rare in the Golden Horde type of two-chamber rectangular mausoleums with a wide pishtak. The architectural decor of the mausoleum finds analogies among the materials of the Selitrennoe settlement on the Lower Volga. The crypt in the mausoleum was intended for interment of aristocratic members of the nomadic ulus in the Middle Don region. The complex under consideration is not the remains of an urban settlement.

Keywords: Middle Don region, Golden Horde, mausoleum, crypt, nomads, aristocracy

Information about author:

Mikhail Tcybin. Candidate of Historical Sciences. Voronezh State University. University Sq., 1, Voronezh, 394006, Russian Federation.
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Nikolay Savitskiy. Candidate of Historical Sciences. Voronezh Institute of the Ministry of the Interior of the Russian Federation. Patriots Ave., 53, Voronezh, 394065, Russian Federation.
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