The collection contains reports on the problems of the history of nomadic tribes of Eastern Europe in the second half of the 1st millennium BC. The main attention is paid to the processes of formation and change of the early Sarmatian (Prokhorov) culture, its periodization and chronology, the specifics of monuments of various regions of the Eastern European steppes. A significant place is given to studies on the natural habitat of nomads, the formation of the physical type of the population of the Southern Urals and the Lower Volga in the era of the early Sarmatians.