title: Sarmatian Burial Monuments of the Steppe Crimea
abstract: The article is devoted to the general characteristics of kurgan graves of the Sarmatian time that are located in the Steppe Crimea to define their cultural and chronological origins. Today we are aware of 19 such monuments. All of them are included in embankments of more ancient barrows. Almost all corpses are directed to the northern sector and only one corpse -to the southern one. The burial items that accompanied them are characterized by chronological frameworks of the 2 nd century BC -1 st 
journal: Nizhnevolzhskiy Arheologicheskiy Vestnik