Contents

Archaeology

 Z.N. Matviishyna (Kyiv, Ukraine), A.G. Parhomenko (Chernigov, Ukraine), S.N. Razumov (Tiraspol, Moldova), S.D. Lysenko (Kyiv, Ukraine), N.P. Telnov (Tiraspol, Moldova), V.S. Sinika (Tiraspol, Moldova). Paleopedological studies of the barrows near Glinoe village

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 S.A. Yatsenko (Moscow, Russia). On Planning of the Elite Necropolises and the Necropolises’ Elite Sections of the Early Steppe Nomads

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 G.V. Baranov (Moscow, Russia). Finds of early medieval sabers of “Bulgarian type” in the upper and middle Dniester basin (on the issue of Byzantine military tradition in Eastern Europe)

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 Ju.Ju. Kargin (Balakovo, Russia). Nekrasov-Cossacks on the Old Kuban River right bank (based on security excavation of “South-East Beloye” settlement in 2014)

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 I.B. Teslenko (Simferopol, Russia). Glazed Pottery of Crimea from the Epoch of Golden Horde and Genoese Colonization till Ottoman Conquest: 120 Years of Study(Historiographical Review)

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 Christian Archaeology

 M.V. Fomin (Kharkov, Ukraine). The cult complex at the eastern square in Chersonese—Cherson

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 N.P. Turova (Simferopol, Russia). The cult complex on the top of Ai-Petri

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History

 H.Zh. Arutyunyan (Yerevan, Armenia). Greece according to “Ashkharatsuyts”

 E.A. Molev (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia). The Navy of Pontos — the first tests

 O.V. Vus (Lvov, Ukraine). The mobile group of the Roman Army in Taurica at the end of III—V centuries CE

 O.V. Vus (Lvov, Ukraine), M.V. Fomin (Kharkov, Ukraine). Battle of Adrianople on August 9, 378. Triumph of Germans and Tragedy of Romans

 E.A. Mekhamadiev (Saint Petersburg, Russia). The Late Roman troops of limitanei and military organization of province of Minor Armenia at the beginning of the IV c.

 N.P. Pokhilko (Yasnaya Polyana, Russia). “Speech of the philosopher” of the Povest’ vremennykh let: the question of the function and the addressee

 E.M. Usmanov (Ufa, Russia). The problem of interpretation of the information of medieval European sources on the ancestral home of the Hungary

 Ya.G. Solodkin (Nizhnevartovsk, Russia). The last Crimean invasion of Moscow in the works by Russian essayists of the late XVI — first third of the XVII centuries

 D.A. Prokhorov (Simferopol, Russia). Karaite book collection of Bakhchysarai historical and cultural Archaeological museum

Numismatics

 M.M. Choref (Nizhnevartovsk, Russia). On the question of deciphering the monograms on Bosporus coins era of Mithridates VI Eupator Dionysus

 S.P. Maiarchak (Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine). Hoard of Roman denarii from Nova Ushytsia in Podillya (Ukraine, Middle Dnister Region)

 M.M. Choref (Nizhnevartovsk, Russia), A.V. Jakushechkin (Bakhchisaray, Russia). Hoard of Roman coins found near the village Perevalnoye (Crimea)

 K.Ju. Morzherin (Saratov, Russia). Bronze obverse die solidus of Justinian I of the Saratov Regional Museum of Local History

 Tedo Dundua (Tbilisi, Georgia), Akaki Chikobava (Tbilisi, Georgia). Coin as a Means of Propaganda (According to the 12th — 18th cc. Georgian Money)

Historical Philology

 Basil Lourié (Perm, Russia). Why So Syrian?A Quantitative Bayesian Approach to the Perturbations of the Textual Flow in the Slavonic Recensions of the Pauline Epistles

Reviews

 A.G. Emanov (Tyumen, Russia). Retro- and prospectivs of hybrid polities in the Crimea and Taman of XI—XII centuries

 S.B. Sorochan (Kharkov, Ukraine), A.A. Romensky (Kharkov, Ukraine). Review: Ivakin H., Khrapunov N., Seibt W. (eds). 2015. Byzantine and Rus’ Seals. Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Rus’—Byzantine Sigillography. Kyiv, Ukraine, 13-16 September 2013. Kyiv: Sheremetiev’s Museum

 A.A. Romensky (Kharkov, Ukraine). Cherson in the Time of Changes (Review: Khapaev V. V. 2016. Vizantyskiy Сherson na rubezhe tysyacheletiy: vtoraya polovina X — pervaya polovina XI vv. Sebastopol: N. Orіanda

 V.V. Khapaev (Sebastopol, Russia). Byzantine Cherson history and archeology controversial questions: Second half Х — first half ХI centuries

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