The author transfers to distant times the "Scythian world," when southern Siberia was inhabited by tribes of the so-called Tagar culture. The book describes and analyzes a huge number of monuments left after this people. How this people came about, what is its ethnic history, what was its relationship with other cultures of the "Scythian world" - from the Black Sea region to Altai, as well as with the ancient civilizations of the Near and Middle East - this reader will get an idea of ​ ​ everything from the monograph.