ISSUES OF STUDYING AND PRESERVING OF KAZAKH WINTERINGS
The report provides new materials on the Kazakh winterings of the 19th - early 20th centuries, located in the eastern regions ofCentral Kazakhstan. Winterings were built using stone, wood and adobe bricks, and at present they are represented only by ruins of varying preservation. Winterings is a type of poorly explored sites. Currently, the need to develop a methodology for their comprehensive study is especially growing. It is important to carry out work to identify and permanently fix these sites. Winterings belong to the category of rapidly decaying sites, most of them have already disappeared from the face of the earth. According to the author, the Kazakh winterings mark the locations of the settlements of the Saka time and very often they overlap the sites of ancient dwellings. Among the new data, such facts were noted in the tracts ofDosbolay, Mauke, Malmak, Tungatar. In modern studies of the ruins of Kazakh winterings, old photographs and paintings stored in the funds of museums can be used as important additional materials. Keywords: Kazakh winterings, Kazakh Upland, settlements of the Saka time, topography, S.M. Dudin