Uyelgi

Lake Uyelgi lies in the forest-steppe east of the southern Urals. Its name has been interpreted in several ways, including a hollow or depression, while a local Bashkir form evokes accumulations of material. On its shores a burial ground was used by different communities between the eighth and thirteenth centuries. Finds from its ninth- and tenth-century graves have close parallels with material associated with the early Hungarians of the Carpathian Basin, showing connections across a vast expanse of Eurasia.