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Passage”) in Kazakhstan. In terms of the diversity of species found and the excellent 

condition in which the bones have been preserved, Gussinyi Perelet is among the top 

twenty famous palaeontological sites of the world. 

The location, in the riverside district of  Pavlodar city, is a cliff  spanning 800 meters 

of  the right bank of  the Irtysh River, upstream of  the railway bridge. The most typical 

representative of  the fauna discovered there was the Hipparion, a three-toed horse. Other 

fauna found at the site include ancient giraffes, rhinoceroses, sabre-toothed cats, hyenas, 

mastodons, deer, antelopes, ostriches, turtles and many other animals.  

Opinions differ amongst authors as to the age of  the site, based on the 

palaeomagnetic data. Some consider it to be of  the Gilbert chron (5.4-5.5 Ma), i.e. Upper 

Miocene (end of  the Meotian stage). However, according to others, three samples of  clay 

taken from the site site correspond to the sixth palaeomagnetic age (5.8-6.8 Ma). 

This article first presents background information about Gussinyi Perelet, a world-

famous palaeontological site of great historical and scientific importance. The pressing 

issues of its conservation, study and protection are covered and various options for its 

preservation through conservation and museification are proposed. The problems of the 

museification of Gussinyi Perelet - especially the complexity of creating an open-air 

museum - are considered. Finally, the need for further study and careful preservation of 

this unique site of natural heritage is emphasised. Museums of this type are important 

sanctuaries, contributing to the preservation and evaluation of local natural and cultural 

heritage.  

It is difficult to overestimate the importance of  Gussinyi Perelet as a reference for 

and model of  the Hipparion fauna of  Siberia and Kazakhstan. The variety of  vertebrate 

species allows for a broad comparisons with Asian and European sites of  similar 

Hipparion fauna.  

 

 

Bibliographical Abbreviations 

 

Aliyassova et al. 2005  

-  Valentina  Aliyassova, Assel Shaikhimova, Sergey Titov, 

Strategii sohraneniya pamyatnika prirody “Gussinyi Perelet,” in 

Sohranenie i ispolzovanie objectov culturnogo i smeshannogo naslediya 

sovremennoi Centralnoi Azii, vol. 1, Almaty, 2005, p. 83-87. 

Baishashov 1993  

-  Bolat  Baishashov,  Neogenovye nosorogi Kazahstana, Almaty, 

1993. 

Bazhanov 1956 

- Vissarion Bazhanov, Vremya poyavleniya gipparionov v predelah 

Kazahstana, in Vestnik Kazak, 11, 1956, p. 15-18. 

Gaduchenko 1976 

- Leonid Gaiduchenko, Novye dannye o strause iz mestonahojdeniya 

“Gussinyi Perelet,” in Geologiya i geofizika, 2, 1976, p. 149-150. 

Issabekov 2008 

- Rizabek Issabekov, Kto spaset “Gussinyi Perelet,” in Karavan, 17, 

2008, p. 24. 

Khu 1986 

-  Yun  Khu,  Museu na territirii drevnego rudnika, in MUSEUM, 

150, 1986, p. 55-59. 

Kuznetsov 1958 

- Vitaly Kuznetsov, Morskaya cherepaha iz neogena Pavlodarskogo 

Priirtyshiya, in MIFFK, 2, 1958, p. 69-71. 

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Martynova 2003 

- Galina Martynova, Muzei-zapovednik  “Tomsk Pisanytsa” kak 

forma sovremennogo ispolzovaniya istoriko-culturnogo naslediya, in HN, 

1, 2003, p. 10-11. 

Orlov 1989 

- Yuri Orlov, Sibir i Africa (gipparionovaya fauna), in tutorial: V 

mire drevnih jivotnykh, Academy of Science of USSR, Moscow, 

1961, p. 19-56. 

Patrusheva 2004 

-  Galina  Patrusheva,  Novye recomendacii po formirovaniyu 

muzeinykh complexov pod otkrytym nebom, in CIS, 3 (14), 2004, p. 

121-123. 

SAPO 1971  

- State Archive of Pavlodar Oblast. Assembly Government Resolution 

of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, 23, 1971. 

Savinov 1970 

- Peter Savinov, Tushkanchikovye  (Dipodidae, Rodentia) neogena 

Kazahstana, in MENP, 1, 1970 p. 91-134. 

Shpanskiy 

2005 

- Andrey Shpanskiy, Gipparionovaya fauna Pavlodarskogo 

Priirtyshya. Obzor stratigraficheskogo rasprostraneniya, in EZ, 2, 

2005, p. 314-331. 

 

Keywords:  

museification, natural heritage, palaeontology, Hipparion fauna, museum. 

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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 

 

 

AA 

- Acta Archaeologica. Copenhagen. 

AAL 

- Asien Africa Lateinamerica. 

Zeitschrift des Zentralen 

Rates für Asien-, Afrika- und Lateinamerikawissenschaften in 

der DDR. Berlin.

 

AAMT 

- Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory. 

Orlando. 

AAnt 

- American Antiquity. Society for American Archaeology. 

Washington. 

ABM - 

Alaska Business Monthly. 

Anchorage. 

Acta Asiatica 

- Acta Asiatica. Bulletin of the Institute of Eastern 

Culture. Tokyo. 

AO - 

Arkheologicheskiye 

otkrytiya (1965-2013). Moscow. 

AOASH 

- Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 

Institute of Oriental Studies. Budapest. 

AP 

- Arkheologiya Podmoskov’ya. Materialy nauchnogo 

seminara. Institute of Archaeology Russian Academy of 

Sciences. Moscow. 

ArchOttoman - 

Archivum Ottomanicum. Wiesbaden Ottoman 

Archivesa. Wiesbaden.

 

Ars Judaica 

- Ars Judaica. 

Bar-Ilan University. Ramat Gan. 

Art-menedzher 

- Art-menedzher. Business magazine considering culture 

and art as a resource for the social and economic 

development of society and offering various technologies 

and methodologies of management of this process. 

Moscow. 

Bibliosphera 

- Bibliosphera. The Siberian Branch of the Russian 

Academy of Sciences. Novosibirsk. 

BKF 

- Baltiiskii filologicheskii kurer. Immanuel Kant Baltic 

Federal University. Kaliningrad. 

BM 

- Byulleten’ Moskovskogo obshchestva ispytateley 

prirody. Otdel biologichesky. Moscow Society of 

Naturalists. Moscow. 

BMMS 

- Byulleten Muzeya Marka Shagala. Marc Chagall 

Museum. Vitebsk. 

Byilyie godyi 

- Byilyie godyi. Sochi State University. Sochi. 

CAn 

- Current Anthropology. Chicago. 

CHR 

- The Canadian Historical Review. University of Toronto 

Press. Toronto. 

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