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The main museum exhibit had being kept there after the excavations of the Arzhaan-2 mound, Uyuk burial in the valley of the river Uyuk in the spurs of the Western Sayan in the Piy-Khem district. For the first time in 1997, scientists investigated the grave of the Scythian leader of the second half of the 7th century BC. e., and later in 2001-2003, the representatives of the Russian-German expedition conducted archaeological excavations.

Surprisingly, more than 20 kg of gold items of everyday and cultic nature, made in “animal style” with the highest jewelry art, remained untouched. The republican museum has the bulk of the items, the other part – in the State Hermitage.