their research began 300 years ago, by order of peter number one, the german scientist, daniil gotleb, mr. schmit. “yes, with such a sadly memorable surname for our ears, but the ancestor is not responsible for the descendant. so, this same mr. schmidt carried out the first excavations. the most valuable, from a historical point of view, stone sculptures of the okunev archaeological culture are kept here. their age is more than 4,000 years. there are also numerous monuments of tagar culture, sculptures, writings, that is, petroglyphs on stones. telling about the life of the people who inhabited these lands. more than 4,000 years, but the mind is inexhaustible. lord, how time flies, huh? the face of the sun, the symbol of all khakassia. it is more than 2,000 years old. this was the main deity. the museum once housed the goddess herself, uluk khurtuyakhtas, or the great stone mother, but smart heads. yes, yes, this happens in our time, they thought that a great goddess with such powerful power has no place in a museum, and she was returned to where she had stood before for 4 and a half,