The paper describes two stages of archeological studies at the territory of the Ilmeny State Reserve. Stage 1 is related to expedition of L.Ya. Krizhevskaya in 1961–1970, which resulted in fn-ding of more than 40 settlements and sites of the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Early Iron Age. Seven settlements were excavated. Stage 2 studies began in 2010 and are continued at present. These works allowed us to fnd about 40 sites and settlements of the Stone Age and to excavate of the Stone Age sites and Bronze Ages burials.

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Key words: Ilmeny State Reserve, archeology, archeological sites, lakes Bolshoe and Maloe Miassovo, Stone Age, Bronze Age

V.S. Mosin, Institute of History and Archeology UB RAS, South Urals Branch, Chelyabinsk, 454080 Russia; mvs54@mail.ru

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