The Dongal settlement is located 208 km southeast of the city of Karaganda, in the Kent mountains, on the left bank of the river Kyzylkenysh, a tributary of the river Taldy. The author carried out excavations of several dwellings of the settlement, thanks to which the structure of their walls and the features of the internal interior were established. The dwellings were rectangular in plan, corridor-shaped entrances and pentagonal hearths of stone slabs placed on the edge. The walls were furnished from the inside with flat stone slabs and were filled with ash. Tools made of stone and bone, a bronze rivet, and a fragment of a bronze knife were found in and around the dwellings. Based on the essential features of ornamentation and forms of clay vessels of the Dongal settlement, its architecture, the author singled out the Dongal type of sites dated from the time of the transition from the Final Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age. At the same time, the ornament and the technology of making ceramics have a certain similarity with the ceramic complex of the Sargary-Alekseevsk culture (the Late Bronze Age), which indicates their genetic relationship.