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Gubin A.S. In his article, “Uncommon Burials Burials of the Timber Culture of the Ural-Volga Region,” he writes that, according to excavations, in the Ural-Volga region, and conducting a study of materials from excavations of the Timber culture burials, it was possible to establish that signs of neutralization were found in 7 cases out of 30 (23, 3%). The term “neutralization” by Gubin means deliberate mutilation of a corpse: cutting off the head, limbs, and other parts of the body. A burial with a missing skull was recorded at the Kachkinovskoye burial ground (burial mound no. 15, burial no. 1), here in burial no. 1 of mound no. 20 the skull was present, but it was located 50 cm to the north of the ridge [5: 13]. In a single burial of kurgan No. 37 of the Staro-Yabalaklinsky burial ground, there were no hand bones, and in adolescent burial No. 1 of kurgan No. 104, hands, feet, and a skull were missing from the skeleton [6: 47]. Gubin notes that grave goods were present in all burials with signs of neutralization.