The History Department employee Vitaliy M. Korol was trained at the VII International Summer Field Archaeological School during his annual leave. Archaeological excavations of the field archeological school took place at the Bilsk settlement, a unique monument of the Scythian period and the largest fortified settlement of the Early Iron Age in Europe with an area of over 5,000 hectares.
In particular, a site in the tract Barvinkova Gora was chosen for the work of the school, where an earthen cemetery and other objects of the Scythian time were discovered. In parallel, the research was conducted at the excavation of the settlement in the tract Tsaryna Mohyla.