Sabers from the findings on Amur in the context of the armor and weapon complex of Amur tribes in the late medieval and early pre-modern periods

The complex of armor and weapon of tribes dwelled in the Far Eastern Region of Russia has been studied insufficiently. In this article the author studied edged weapon found in the basin of Amur and probably dated by XVII century. The first saber is the well-preserved short blade with engravings of fishes, calabash, 2 crosses and stylized depiction of a conical building. The guard, organic materials of the hilt, the pommel and the scabbard did not survive. The second saber is also found without scabbard and details of hilt, but it preserved the engraved guard which made the attribution of the saber easier. Author undertook the research of sabers by photos and searched the analogues by archeological and ethnographical materials. It was determined that the both sabers are the samples of edged weapon produced either by Ainu blacksmiths or by the local Amur blacksmiths after the Ainu's samples of sabers. Due to the lack of archeological context of the both findings the ethnical identification of the last owners of those sabers and the period when those sabers were in active usage could be determined only approximately. But finding of these sabers allows to imagine the complex of armor and weapon of professional warriors form the basin of Amur and to look on the problems of international relation and trading in the region from the new point of view.