evidence: The territory of the "Valley of the Kings of Tuva" is located on the Turan-Uyuk mountain steppe basin in the Piy-Khem district of the Republic of Tuva of the Russian Federation. The total area of the TuranUyuk Valley is approximately 130,000 hectares. Here, in the vast valley of the Uyuk River, there are a thousand large earthen or stone-built mounds. Some of them reach more than a hundred meters in diameter at a height of up to 6 meters. Usually the mounds form chains, which probably means the blood relationship of the people buried in it. Mounds are especially numerous in the depths of the valley, where the ridges - Kurtushibinsky in the north and Uyuksky in the south - converge. Locals call this territory the "Valley of the Kings" (tuv. Khaannar shynaazy). Here the archaeological sites belong to the I millennium BC - the Bronze and Iron eras.