Contens

Archaeology

 S.D. Lysenko (Kyiv, Ukraine), E.I. Shklyarevskii (Fastiv, Ukraine), S.N. Razumov (Tiraspol, Moldova), S.S. Lysenko (Kyiv, Ukraine). Barrow cemetery of Komarovskaya culture near Bukovna village (results of researches 2010—2013)

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 Brendan Mac Gonagle (Plovdiv, Bulgaria). Celto-Scythians and Celticization in Ukraine and the North Pontic Region

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 S.V. Ushakov (Sevastopol, Russia). Early Byzantine Chersoneses, Pontus and Eastern Mediterranean (on the materials red lacquer ceramics)

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 E.N. Tarasenko (Norilsk, Russia), M.E. Tarasenko (Moscow, Russia), D.E. Tarasenko (Moscow, Russia). The Saltov-Mayatsky Culture Fortuitous Findings from the Stone Graves Reserve Environs

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 G.V. Baranov (Moscow, Russia). A new find of a Byzantine sword-guard and a pommel in Cherkasy Raion, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine

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 N.A. Abramova (Saint Petersburg, Russia). The research of the Eski-Kermen “cave town” in the 20's and 30's of the 20^th century

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Christian Archaeology

 M.V. Fomin (Kharkov, Ukraine), E.V. Ogienko (Kharkov, Ukraine), A.A. Shevtsova (Kharkov, Ukraine). About the cult complex of Western Basilica in Medieval Chersoneses—Cherson

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 N.P. Turova (Yalta, Russia). History of the study of medieval Christian antiquities of Southern coast of Crimea

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 E.V. Nedelkin (Sevastopol, Russia). The cave monastery Shuldan at the beginning of XXI c.

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History

 E.A. Molev (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia). Herodotus on the Persians for the possession of the Caucasus (Herod. III: 97)

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 Stefan Albrecht (Mainz, Germany). Who was protopolit Zoilus from Cherson?

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 N.P. Pokhilko (Saint Petersburg, Russia). Annalistic article of 1044 year and the miracle of resurrection through baptism in the “Lives of Holy bishops of Сherson”

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 A.A. Romensky (Kharkov, Ukraine). The Last Feast of Prince Rostislav: the Political Context of the Relations of Rus’ and Byzantium in Taman and Taurica in the 60s—70s of XI century

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 Ya.G. Solodkin (Nizhnevartovsk, Russia). The so-called Moscovite Chronicle of the second quarter of the 17th century on the varieties of the Russian-Crimean military confrontation and diplomatic contacts in the 1570-90s

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 D.A. Prokhorov (Simferopol, Russia). Historical and architectural objects and features of urban development in the Crimean peninsula in the context of Karaites history

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Numismatics

 M.M. Choref (Nizhnevartovsk, Russia). Countermarks on copper coins of the Bosporus archon Asander

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 Tedo Dundua (Tbilisi, Georgia), Emil Avdaliani (Tbilisi, Georgia). Coin as a Means of Propaganda (According to Georgian Numismatics)

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 V.V. Khapaev (Sevastopol, Russia). To a question of time of the termination of issue of the Cherson-Byzantine coins with monograms of “Basil” name and “despot” title in Cherson

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 D.V. Andrievsky (Simferopol, Russia), M. M. Choref (Nizhnevartovsk, Russia). Purse Crimean Khanate coins found near the village Mezhvodnoe (Chernomorsky Raion, the Crimea)

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Reviews

 A.M. Novichikhin (Anapa, Russia). Review: Bondarenko M. E. Sinds. Ethnographic characteristics of the ancient tribes of the Asian Bosporus. M., 2012. 152 p. 

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 Abbreviations

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 Submissions

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