New rock art sites in the mountainous massif of Oglakhty (Khakassia)

An article presents the brief characteristic of the largest rock art complex in the Mountainous massif of Oglakhty in the Khakass-Minusinsk Basin. Its historical and cultural meaning resides in not only numerous images, but also their variability, representability, presence of typical and unique subjects, images and styles. Informational facilities of the Oglakhty petroglyphs are very high, but educed in littleness. Until quite recently, massif included 8 separate occurrences, whereof only three were published quite completely. Recently, the author who had documented some of them in 1990s, renewed the systematic investigation of complex. The main targets are: total recon of mountainous massif (it is possible to find a new images in the known occurrences as well as new, unknown occurrences); mapping; up-to-date record of previously copied flats, as well as that will be educed; systematization of archival records; monitoring of the conservation conditions and photofixation of petroglyphs on the inundable cliffs. In consequence of the 2014-2015 campaign, we educed and recorded not only the new flats in the previously studied occurrences, but also in the four new occurrences. One of them (with images of deer, moose, bison, mouflon and wild horse, which presented the most ancient regional art) is situated in the cliffs, and three (with images of Neolithic - Early Bronze masks, animals, anthropomorphic figures, signs of Tagar and Tesino cultures, Middle Ages and ethnographic present) were in the inner ravines of mountainous massif.