The publication presents information about a hoard of metal items of the Bronze Age discovered in the north of the Kurgan region in the lower course of the Sueri river. This was the fi rst true hoard complex in the forest-steppe Tobol area. This fact makes the Gladunino hoard particularly important, since the absence in the Trans-Ural of any traces of the universal practice of depositing metal items in the form of hoards in the ground made this region quite different from all the other regions of the Eurasian (West Asian) metallurgical province.