The paper presents the results of studying the elements of the funerary rite of the eastern variant of the Pakhomov culture at the Old Garden burial ground in the Barabinsk forest-steppe. The variability of the types of organization of sacred space (17 units), the variety of objects used to create sacred space (ditches, punctures, pits, etc.), which differ in shape and number under each mound, are established. It is traced that the mound was a permanent object of sacralization, in all the graves the rite of placing a corpse is recorded, and not a secondary burial, which is characteristic of the Pakhom culture of the Tobolsk-Ishim interfluve. A hypothesis is put forward about the mixing of various traditions, about the active interaction of the population of the eastern area of the Pakhom culture with the autochthons of the Barabinsk forest-steppe, and the preservation of the main features of the funeral rite by all participants in these processes. Keywords: archeology, organization of sacred space, funeral rite, Eastern version of the Pakhom culture, Late Bronze Age, cultural interactions. The Old Garden Monument is located in the Vengerovsky district of the Novosibirsk region, 5 km southwest of the village. Vengerovo, 600 m south of the abandoned orchard on the southern edge of the indigenous terrace of Gosudaryovo Lake. The burial ground was actively destroyed under the influence of an anthropogenic factor: there were quarries on its territory where clay was extracted (Molodin et al., 2010, 2011). Some of the mounds were dismantled by local residents or plowed up. 97 objects were recorded on the monument (initially their number could have been more), of which 94 were excavated. The Old Garden burial ground was opened in 1983 by V. I. Molodin. The first excavations of the monument were carried out in 1983 by N. V. Polosmak and V. I. Molodin. The main part of the burial complexes in 1983-84 and 1987 was investigated by A.V. Neskorov; he excavated 87 burial mounds (M ... Read more