ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH OF THE LANDSCAPE OF THE OYRAT-KAZAKH MILITARY CONFLICT IN THE BULANTYBELEUITTY INTERFLUVE IN 2024 (PRELIMINARY RESULTS)
Usmanova E.R. Dmitriev E.A. Zhumashev R.M. Shaigozova Z.N. Lopatin V.A.
18 July 2025Altai State University
Theory and Practice of Archaeological Research
2025#37Issue 2169 - 182 pp.
The Battle of Bulanty is of particular importance in a series of Kazakh-Oirat military conflicts. A comprehensive study in 2007–2010 in the Kalmakkyrgan River valley and the Karasuyr tract revealed a number of historical sites tentatively attributed to the time of military clashes between the Kazakhs and Oirats. However, archaeological excavations of the Karasuyr burial ground conducted in 2011 and 2023 did not confirm the assumption put forward about the location of the battle in the Karasuyr tract. In 2024, exploratory work was carried out in the valleys of the Kalmakkyrgan and Kurailly rivers. The results of a repeated survey of the Kalmaktepe hill are published in this article. The presence of a ruined structure in the form of the remains of a small Oirat outpost guardhouse has been confirmed. A necropolis with tombstonessyntas with the images of the Kazakhs ancestral tamgas of the Senior and Middle Zhuzes was discovered on the bank of the Kuraila River. The monument may be a fraternal military burial of the 18th century.
Battle of Bulanty , Bulanty-Beleuitty , Central Kazakhstan , landscape , military conflict , Oirats , tamgas , Ulytau
Text of the article Перейти на текст статьи
Saryarka Archaeological Institute, Buketov Karaganda Research University, Karaganda, Kazakhstan
Institute of Archaeology named after A. Kh. Margulan, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Institute of Archaeology named after A. Kh. Khalikov Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan, Russian Federation
Altai State University, Barnaul, Russian Federation
Karaganda Research University named after Academician E. A. Buketov, Karaganda, Kazakhstan
Kazakh National Pedagogical University named after Abai, Almaty, Kazakhstan
local historian-cartographer, Zhitikara, Kazakhstan
Saryarka Archaeological Institute
Institute of Archaeology named after A. Kh. Margulan
Institute of Archaeology named after A. Kh. Khalikov Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan
Altai State University
Karaganda Research University named after Academician E. A. Buketov
Kazakh National Pedagogical University named after Abai
local historian-cartographer
10 лет помогаем публиковать статьи Международный издатель
Книга Публикация научной статьи Волощук 2026 Book Publication of a scientific article 2026