'Fortress, Fortification, military shelter, strengthening, Stockade, Hedge'[10][11] Altay: Шибе, romanized: Şibe, lit.

[10] Probably Altaic etymology from Proto-Mongolian sibeɣe, sibei, šibe'e 'stick, pole, rod; fence' Khalkha šivē Buriat šebē Kalmuck šiwɛ̄ 'fortress, citadel' and Ordos 'šiwē'.

Similar monuments of the ancient societies culture are known in the Caucasus, the Crimea and the Balkans mountain systems [3] which include characteristic feature of natural landscape of hard-to-reach peaks.

[2] The fortress has two lines of defensive dry stone walls built of sandstone slabs without application of binding solution.

In the western part, two small outbuildings or fences made of stone, oval and subrectangular in plan, 4x5 m and 4x6 m in size, were also attached close to the wall.

A representative complex of finds of household items and works of art from ancient man of the Bronze Age has been collected on a compact territory.

The determination of the species composition of animals was carried out by M. V. Sablin, an employee of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg.

A vulnerable moment in the defense of the Sve is the complete absence of permanent sources of water inside the fortifications.

The cultural layer contains traces of human presence - coals, bones, ceramics, as well as stone tools (including axes, adzes) and blanks for their production.

pointed to such possible interpretations of the monument as a fortress, a settlement-shelter, a ritual center ("closer to Heaven"), a seasonal hunting settlement, and also that the fortresses could mark the territorial division of the regions of the Okunev and Kamenno-Lozh cultures (tradition of the Karasuk culture) at some point in time.

At the same time, one should not forget about the prestige, demonstration of the influence and power of the tribal aristocracy, which can concentrate significant resources for the construction of a high-mountain fortress.