for­ti­fied Bronze Age set­tle­ment. The age of the set­tle­ment is 4 thou­sand years, the vil­lage was cre­at­ed accord­ing to a pre-thought-out plan, with a clear urban plan­ning idea, com­plex archi­tec­ture and for­ti­fi­ca­tion. More than thir­ty years have passed since the open­ing of the set­tle­ment of Arkaim in the steppe Trans-Urals. Dur­ing this time, a reserve was cre­at­ed to pro­tect Arkaim, many oth­er ancient mon­u­ments and his­tor­i­cal nat­ur­al land­scapes.