Abstract
Archaeological research in 2022 at the industrial and residential complex of the late Bronze Age Koktas 1 covered an emergency site in the central part of the monument with a total area of 400 m2. Stone structures were found within the excavation site 3, the central position among which was occupied by a residential semi-underground pit of a square shape (with an area of 57m2) with corridor-like passages to other similar rooms. The nature of the structure of the buildings is traditional for the monuments of the Late Andronovo and Begazy-Sargary times of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Kazakhstan. Ceramic materials also belong to this time, indicating the ethno-cultural interactions of the population of this microdistrict with residents of the adjacent territories of Kazakhstan, Altai and Siberia. The analysis of artifacts and the data of radiocarbon studies of the monument allow us to pre-date it to the 15th–14th centuries BC.