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The article publishes materials from the study of one mound complex with a “moustache,” studied in the Tekey Valley, in the Sarybel district of the Karaganda region. The site consists of two mounds located along the west-east line, and two stone ridges oriented to the east. A child’s burial was found in the western mound at the level of the ancient horizon; under the eastern mound there were teeth and leg bones of a horse. A few fragments of ceramics were found in the mound of the western structure. Two radiocarbon dates were obtained on bone samples from a child’s cervical vertebra and a horse’s tubular bone in laboratories in the Russian Federation and Great Britain. On their basis, the horse bones under the eastern mound were attributed to the Hunnic period, while the child burial in the western mound was attributed to the late Saka period. The ceramic fragments can be dated to the initial stage of the Early Iron Age. Based on the features of the mound and the ceramics, the western mound was built at the beginning of the Early Iron Age. The child’s burial with a north-eastern orientation belongs to the Korgantas type and was inserted into an earlier mound. The obtained materials, including new radiocarbon dates, supplement the existing data on kurgans with “moustache” in Central Kazakhstan.