English: Scythian stone sculpture VI- VII century B.C. made from pink granite, revealed either near Lyta Mohyla kurgan or near Mel’gunov kurgan (now- Kucherivka village in Kirovograd region in Ukraine) in year of 1763 by Oleksiy Petrovich Mel’gunov (1722-1788), the governor-general of Novorossiya province of Russian empire in that time. O.P.Mel’gunov was the first who started archeological excavations near Dnieper so all the golden and silver treasures found by him during the years of these archeological studies at current Ukrainian territory are stored now in the Hermitage Museum in Russia. The statue belongs to unique collection of Scythian stone sculpture of Kirovograd regional museum of local history; the collection includes 6 statues of VI – IV century B.C. that characterizes it as the one of the largest in Ukraine considering the age of sculptures