The history of the Volga-Kama region in the Turkic Khaganates period in the works of archaeologists

On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of Yevgeny Petrovich Kazakov, Doctor of History, chief research fellow at the Institute of Archaeology named after A.Kh. Khalikov of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, his monograph “Volga-Kama region in the Turkic Khaganates period. Book 2. The burial ground of the Imenkovo culture in the Devichiy Gorodok Survey Mark (IX Izmeri burial ground)” was published. ».

The monograph is a continuation of his work on the publication of materials of the Volga-Kama sites of the Turkic Kaganates epoch. The first book, dedicated to the studies of Komintern II burial ground, was published in 2021 in the series “Archaeology of Eurasian steppes”, issue 26. The second book characterizes IX Izmeri burial ground, one of the largest studied burial grounds of the Imenkovo archaeological culture in Tatarstan. On the basis of the analysis of burial assemblages and inventory, the author covers the issues of chronology, ethnic and cultural relationship between the indigenous population and new comers, peculiarities of everyday life and ideological beliefs of the population of the second half of the VI – VII century AD.

The publication of field reports, which form the basis for the description of the necropolis burial sites, is a distinctive feature of this edition. Numerous illustrations accompanying and supplementing the text are based on the materials of field studies, copying objects and drawings, processing of the archaeological collection, which make the book an invaluable source for the study of the IX Izmeri burial ground and other sites of its epoch.
In continuation of this series, it is planned to publish the materials of the Imenkovo culture burial sites of the Middle Volga region, which are the result of previous (second half of the XX century) and the latest archaeological studies.