Introduction Since 1999, the Ugra archaeological expedition of the Institute of History and Archeology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Ural State University (Yekaterinburg) has been studying archaeological sites in the big bend of the river. Endyr River, a left tributary of the Lower Ob River, 71 km south-southeast of Nyagan in the Oktyabrsky district of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug of the Tyumen Region (Fig. In the inner loop of the bend is also the settlement of Endyrskoe VIII. It occupies a section of the left-bank above-floodplain terrace of the river. It is a 2.0 - 3.5 m high endyr, overgrown with coniferous forest and covered with a forest floor of mosses, wild rosemary and coniferous litter. The monument is located on the tip of a promontory that gently descends from northwest to southeast into the swampy floodplain of the river. The boundaries of the settlement generally coincide with the configuration of the cape, although they will inevitably be clarified in the course of further excavations. Two large housing depressions are clearly visible on the surface of the terrace. One of them, surrounded by a very sprawling rampart-shaped embankment, is located at the tip of the cape. The study of this object by excavations is difficult due to the proximity of groundwater. Another depression marks the northwestern border of the settlement.- 1. Location of the Endyrskoe VIII settlement (A) and excavation plan for 1999-2005 (B). page 53 2. Plan and profile of a late Bronze Age dwelling. 1-modern podzol and forest floor; 2-Early Iron Age cultural layer; 3-Late Bronze Age cultural layer; 4-dark gray sand on the floor of Bronze and Iron Age dwellings; 5-brown sand; 6-calculus; 7-buried podzol; 8-mainland; 9-perekopy and inversions of trees; 10-burnt blocks and poles; 11-metal drops; 12 - fragments of crucibles; 13-bilaterally processed stone tools; 14-a fragment of an arrowhead. research institute. It is surrounded along the perimete ... Read more