Urpek is a village in

Amangeldi District Amangeldi ( kk, Аманкелді ауданы, ) is a district of Kostanay Region in northern Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Easter ...

Kostanay Region Kostanay Region ( kk, Қостанай облысы, translit=Qostanai oblysy; russian: Костанайская область, translit=Kostanayskaya oblast) is a region of Kazakhstan. Its administrative center is the city of Kostanay. The pop ...

, northern

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...

Geoglyph

The Turgay triradial swastika, one of a number of

Neolithic The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several parts ...

earth constructions known to archaeologists as

Steppe Geoglyphs The Steppe Geoglyphs are a number of earth constructions in the Turgai Trough area of Turgai in northern Kazakhstan. There are at least 260 of these earthworks. The constructions Many or all of them consist of smaller earthworks (mounds, trench ...

, is at , only about half a mile east of Urpek.

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Populated places in Kostanay Region Neolithic sites Megalithic monuments Archaeological sites in Kazakhstan {{Kazakhstan-geo-stub