English: Polovtsian stone statues presented in the lapidarium from the collection of kurgan monumental sculpture of Dnipropetrovsk national historical museum named to D.I.Yavornytskiy. The museum collection started to form in the middle of 19th century and includes 67 statues of different historical epochs, i.e. steles of Eneolithic and bronze epochs dated by III-II millennium B.C., Scythian steles and statues dated by V — IV century B.C., Sarmatian statue, gothic stele dated by III-IV century A.D., but the major part of the collection is presented by Polovtsian statues of high work of art dated by XI — XIII century A.D.