ELABUGA  , a

town of Russia, in the government of Vyatka, on the Kama river, 201 M. by steamboat down the Volga from Kazan and then up the Kama . It has flour-mills, and carries on a brisk trade in exporting corn . Pop . (1897) 9776 . The famous Ananiynskiy Mogilnik (burial-place) is on the right bank of the Kama, 3 M. above the town . It was discovered in 1858, was excavated by Alabin, Lerch and Nevostruyev, and has since supplied extremely valuable collections belonging to the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages . It consisted of a mound, about 500 it. in circumference, adorned with decorated stones (which have disappeared), and contained an inner wall, 65 ft. in circumference, made of uncemented stone flags . Nearly fifty skeletons were discovered, mostly lying upon charred logs, surrounded with cinerary urns filled with partially burned bones . A great variety of bronze decorations and glazed clay pearls were strewn round the skeletons . The knives, daggers and arrowpoints are of slate, bronze and iron, the last two being very rough imitations of stone implements . One of the flags bore the image of a man, without moustaches or beard, dressed in a costume and helmet recalling those of the Circassians .