Mining and copper metallurgy in the Ural-Mugodjary region in the late Bronze age

The article presents the characteristics of the UralMugodjary mining and metallurgy center of the Late Bronze Age, formed in the connection with the inhabitants which left us the monuments of the Kozhumberdy cultural group on the western flank of the Andronovo cultural community. The author analyzes the mechanism of the household cultural system based on the segmental principle. This system is archaeologically represented by the compact microdistricts, formed by the synchronous archaeological monuments of different categories, timed to the ancient excavations in the localizations of the copper deposits.