About the book: 1961 / In the published monograph I examine items of Sauromatian weapons and horse equipment stored in the State Hermitage, the State Historical Museum, the Archaeological Museum of Moscow State University, Saratov, Kuibyshev , Orenburg and Chelyabinsk regional museums of local history, using archival data from the Institute of Archeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences, sketches of things from the Astrakhan, Stalingrad, Khvalynsk, Ufa, Sverdlovsk and Alma-Ata museums. I tried to describe this material as fully as possible, to characterize the features of Sauromatian weapons and their evolution in close connection with the development of military affairs among the Sauromatians from the 7th to the 4th centuries. BC e. The work is entirely based on archaeological material and is mainly of a source study nature..