Lisakovsk

[1] The city owes its existence to a high-phosphorus, 1.72 billion-ton iron ore deposit discovered in 1949; development did not begin until the 1960s.

In the early 1990s mining in Lisakovsk was in a critical situation due to a sharp fall in demand for iron concentrate in the metallurgical industry in Kazakhstan and Russia.

The mining industry during this period produced goods worth 6292.7 million tenge, which is 175% higher than the corresponding level last year.

These findings characterize the basic life-support systems and religious ideas of Indo-Iranian tribes that lived in the steppe zone of the Upper Pritobolya in the mid-second millennium BC.

Items of funeral rites have been found as well as the remains of wooden structures, fragments of textiles, and evidence of weaving and felt making.

The excavations of a Kurgan leader "demonstrate the complex cosmogonic idea, inherent in the architectural design of the mound.

As a logical extension of this work it is considering the establishment of a "Tumar" eco-cultural center as the pilot complex of tourist, educational, and ethnographic objects.

According to the Journal of Archaeological Science, in July 2020, scientists from South Ural State University studied two Late Bronze Age horses with the aid of radiocarbon dating from Kurgan 5 of the Novoilinovsky 2 cemetery.

[4][5] "It is likely that militarized elite, whose power was based on the physical control of fellow tribesmen and neighbors with the help of riding and fighting skills, was buried in the Novoilinovsky-2 burial ground.

There may be another explanation: These elite fulfilled the function of mediating conflicts within the collective, and therefore had power and high social status.