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English: Archeologists working with the skeletons from the graves revealed and explored during the archaeological excavations of the Late Scythian necropolis in Chervony Mayak village (Kherson region) which were continued in June-July 2017 by the Late-Scythian archaeological expedition headed by Dr. Oleksandr Symonenko with the assistance of Dr. Olena Dzneladze and Mr. Denis Sikoza. During the excavation in 2017 11 burials were discovered: the niche-graves belonging most likely to Sarmatians settled in the Late Scythian milieu and the catacombs (earth crypts) which are considered to be Late Scythians. The burials are dated by the II century AD. The grave goods of the excavated graves consisted of a few decorations and fragments of the hand-made vessels. The hill-fort (and the graves near it) in the Chervony Mayak village is one of the 16 known Late Scythian sites of the Lower Dnieper Region which are dated since the second half of the II century B.C. till the mid- III century AD and the population of which was a part of Scythia Minor. Oleksandr Symonenko is Doctor habilitatis in Archaeology, Professor of Mykolaiv National University and well-known archaeologist with almost 40 years of field experience, the expert in the history and archeology of the Sarmatians and Late Scythians, Chief Research Fellow at the Archeology of the Early Iron Age Department of Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the author of 160 scientific publications, including 10 monographs. Olena Dzneladze is Ph.D. in Archaeology, the specialist in Late Scythian and Sarmatian archeological cultures, Research Officer of the Archeology of the Early Iron Age Department of Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Denis Sikoza is the Head of the Department of Research and Protection of Archaeological sites in the Kherson Regional Inspection of the Protection of the Sites of History and Culture, the Post-Graduate Student in the Archeology of the Early Iron Age Department of Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.