This article discusses the results of research work on 18 mounds of the early Iron Age dated from the middle to the end of the 1st millennium BC, located in the construction and reconstruction zone of the Taldykorgan-Kalbatau-Ust-Kamenogorsk highway km 325-410, in the Aksuysky district of the Almaty region. Different types - simple soil gravel pits, pits with shoulders, lining with step dromos, burial in a stone box, represent the investigated funerary structures. In the course of foot reconnaissance approximately the village. Sagakures, in the area of the burial ground of the second half of the 1st millennium BC a small accumulation of petroglyphs of the early Iron Age was revealed.