Fedorova D. V. The Archaeological Heritage of the Municipal Formation of the City of Ekaterinburg: A General Overview, the 2023 Inventory Results

Darya V. Fedorova
Scientific and Production Center for the Protection and Use of Historical and Cultural Monuments of the Sverdlovsk Region
Ekaterinburg, Russia
E-mail: fdv42@bk.ru
ORCID: 0009-0001-6527-0568

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UDC 902.2(470.5):351.853.3
DOI: 10.58529/2782-6511-2023-2-4-16-25

ABSTRACT. There are almost all types of archaeological monuments (settlements, burial grounds, pictograms, ancient production sites) on the territory of the municipal formation of the city of Ekaterinburg, most of them are represented by settlements located along the banks of watercourses and lakes. The dating of the sites covers a wide range from the Mesolithic to the Late Iron Age. At the same time, no more than 10 % of the sites have been explored. The number of archaeological sites in the Ekaterinburg municipality as of 2023 totals 124 objects (according to the State Security authorities). At 66 objects of cultural (archaeological) heritage, the boundaries of the distribution of the cultural layer are defined, and information about them is included in the Unified Register of Objects of Cultural Heritage of Russia. The remaining sites are in the status of identified objects of cultural (archaeological) heritage. They have yet to be added to the register. This article presents a general overview and characteristics of objects of cultural (archaeological) heritage located within the modern boundaries of the municipal formation of the city of Ekaterinburg. It also considers the results of work to determine the boundaries of the spread of the cultural layer on objects of cultural (archaeological) heritage from 2013 to 2022, necessary for entering information about sites in the state cadaster of real estate, methodology and prospects of work in this direction, as well as the need to define the boundaries of all scientifically significant archaeological heritage sites on the territory of Ekaterinburg.

KEYWORDS: protection of monuments, objects of cultural heritage, cultural layer, boundaries of the object of archeology, city of Ekaterinburg.

For citation: Fedorova D. V. The Archaeological Heritage of the Municipal Formation of the City of Ekaterinburg: A General Overview, the 2023 Inventory Results // Historical Geography Journal. 2023. Vol. 2. № 4. P. 16–25.

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