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The Upper Palaeolithic station at Yudinovo (Bryansk oblast’, Russia), studied for many years, got widely known owing to debris of four huts made of mammoth bones and to a rich collection of stone and bone articles. The stone inventory characterised by small dimensions is represented by burins (over a half of them – retouch burins), scrapers (they are 3 times fewer than the burins), plates and micro-plates with gross edge, single chisel-like tools, scrapes. The typological picture of this collection allows to correlate Yudinovo with such sites as Timonovo station, Bugorok and Chulatovo II. The dating of the station (18 radio-carbon dates), about 15-14 thousand years old, allows to attribute various decorations, tools and weapons made of tusk, horn or bone by the period of late after-glacial. Among these, the most representative are objects made of tusk: beads, pendants, parts of bracelets, maybe diadems, fibulae “buckles”, plates with grooves. To take just beads used to decorate the clothes – they were collected as many as 3,000. Among the mass of objects made of bone, one may distinguish awls, points, land-digging tools, “needle-cases”, engraved pictures, ornamented ribs and tubular bones. Antler objects are represented by hammers. There are also finds of perforated shellfish from the Black Sea.