The collection of scientific works contains the results of archaeological and ethnographic research in South Siberia and Central Asia, as well as materials dedicated to the memory of the first professional Altai archaeologist, candidate of historical sciences, senior researcher Alexander Sazonovich Surazakov (10.12.1948 - 28.08.2018). Prepared and published by the Research Center for the History and Culture of the Turkic Peoples of the Gorno-Altai State University as part of the research project "Economic and Social Adaptation of Man to the Natural and Climatic Conditions of the Altai Mountains in the Second Half of the Holocene"