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bank of the Sudost River, 14 kilometers north of Pogar, on the terrace 

 above the spring floods on Kolkhoz "Pcrvomaiski." Preliminary 

 excavations were made by K. M. Polikarpuvich during 1934. Flint 

 implements and mammoth bones were found in two places 200 m. 

 away from both sides of the ravine. 



86, Suclikino. — Traces of an Upper Paleolithic station on the left 

 bank of the Seim River near Suchkino, 8 kilometers east of Rylsk, 

 were investigated by S. N. Zamiatnin during 1930. The fauna con- 

 sisted of mammoth, and the flints were insignificant, mainly flakes. 



Sy. Gavikoz'o. — A large quantity of mammoth bones and rhinoceros 

 were found under the loess in fluvioglacial deposits covering the Riss 

 moraine, 17 kilometers southwest of Smolensk on the watershed of 

 the Ufinia River, the left tributary of the Dnieper. Only one worked 

 flint came to light. This station has been investigated several times 

 since 1910; small excavations were made in 1933 by K. M. Polikarpo- 

 vich and G. A. Bonch-Osmolovskii. 



88. Skniatino. — This Upper Paleolithic station is located on the 

 dunes of the left bank of the Xerlia River near its confluence with the 

 \'olga. The large flint inventory is Azilian-Tardenoisian (Sviderskian 

 Phase) in character. In 1937 P. N. Tretiakov, basing his study on 

 pollen analysis, found it possible to attribute this site to the boreal 

 phase. 



89. Kuibyshev. — Mammoth bones were discovered during October 

 1926, while laying a sewer pipe on the Voznesenskii .'-^pusk on the 

 bank of the Volga. Investigation of this site by M. G. Matkin and 

 A. I. Terenozhkin showed that bones lay at a depth of 3.2 m. under 

 the fertile soil and the reddish-brown clay in a stratum of yellow sand 

 above another arenaceous layer mixed with limestone pebbles. Near 

 the mammoth bones were several small flint flakes. 



90. MuUnov Ostrov. — Fossil bones were found on this island on 

 the left bank of the Volga opposite the gorodishche between Tetiushi 

 and Ulianovsk. Together with the remains of mammoth, Siberian 

 rhinoceros, northern deer, elk, and bison there was found a human 

 mandible. The Paleolithic character of the finds has not l>een 

 established. 



91. Postnikov Ovraq. — This Azilian (or even later) station stands 

 at the mouth of the Postnikov ravine, on the northern outskirts of 

 Kuibyshev, near the Postnikov site with the microlithic invcntor>'. 

 P. P. Eflmenko and M. G. Matkin discovered on the slope of the bank 

 a cultural stratum comprising microlithic flints and bone implements, 

 including needles, together with faunal remains as yet not investigated. 



92. Undor\. — Fossil bones were found in a sand bar near the right 



