Krivoye Ozero is a small lake

Lake

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 in the Chelyabinsk Oblast

Chelyabinsk Oblast

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 of Russia

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, southeast of Magnitogorsk

Magnitogorsk

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, near the Kazakhstan

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i border. Its name is translated from the Russian as "Crooked Lake".

The lake is primarily known for the Sintashta-Petrovka burials, dotted over the area of some 10 km². Particularly notable is one of the earliest chariot burial

Chariot burial

Chariot burials are tombs in which the deceased was buried together with his chariot, usually including his horses and other possessions....

s in the world, dated to ca. 2000 BC.

The chariot grave contained a horse skull, three pots, two bridle cheek pieces, and points of spears and arrows. The bones were dated to an average of 2026 BC.