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The article analyzes the collection of finds - iron objects of armament and horse harness from the Minusinsk Hollow. Judging from the good state of preservation and bent blade of a broadsword they could belong to the culture of the Yenisei Kyrgyz. The iron tip of a spear from the collection is distinguished by its original design. The tip has a rhombic shape with indentations on the sides. The similar tips of spears in the burial mounds of the culture of the Yenisei Kyrgyz did not occur in the past. Among the objects there is an iron broadsword with bent blade and detachable guard. According to design features, this finding relates to the third type of broadswords that were in the inventory of the Yenisei Kyrgyz warriors in the era of the High Middle Ages. A horse harness from the collection has iron bits, composed of two elements with the rings on the ends. There are also two damaged iron stirrups with flat loops and apertures for threading the leather straps. The embossing ornament is drawn on the surfaces of the loops, that reproduces a schematic image of a bird. Judging by the composition and form of the discovered objects of armament and harness from the Minusinsk Hollow, they could originate from the burial place of the Yenisei Kyrgyz warrior, buried in the uplands in the valley of Tes’ River in the end of the first millennium - the beginning of the second millennium A.D. The fact that among the weapons from the internment in the valley of Tes’ River there is a broadsword, whose blade was bent twice for ritual purposes, and a spear of infrequent form, this burial mound could belong to the professional Kyrgyz warrior - combatant. In the past objects with similar shape were found by archaeologists in the course of excavations of burial mounds of the culture of the Yenisei Kyrgyz people in the territory of Tuva.