Dedicated to I.I.Lyapushkin’s 100th Anniversary

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AD MEMORIAM  

K. V. Pavlova (St.-Petersburg, Russia)From Memories of I.I. Lyapushkin’s Last Decades of Life and Work Free!9O. V. Ovsyannikov (St.-Petersburg, Russia)Memories about I.I. Lyapushkin Free!14M. V. Medvedeva (St.-Petersburg, Russia)I. I. Lyapushkin’s Scientific Heritage Documented in the Russian Academy’s Institute of History of Material Culture Photo Archive Free!16

MONOGRAPH IN THE JOURNAL  

N. V. Zhilina (Moscow, Russia)The Slavonic-Russian Filigree of VIII-X centuries21O. I. Boguslavski (St. - Petersburg, Russia)A Complex of Sites at the Gorodishche Village on the Syasi River (the results of excavations of 1987-1999)171

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS  

E. N. Nosov, A. V. Plokhov (St. - Petersburg, Russia)An Unfortified Settlement Vasilievskoe on the Veryazha River244K. V. Pavlova (St. - Petersburg, Russia)Towards the Issue of the Debris of a Wooden Church of 12th - 13th Century on the Fortified Settlement Osovik271O. V. Ovsyannikov, M. E. Jasinski (St. - Petersburg, Russia)From the Papers of Adjutant General C.N. Possuet (A Fragment from the Report of 1870)276

ARCHAEOLOGY OF CRAFT  

A. V. Kurbatov (St. - Petersburg, Russia)A Pre-History of the Russian Leather Trade283N. V. Khvoshchinskaya (St. - Petersburg, Russia)New Evidence Supporting Existence of Crafts Industry at the Early Stage of Rurikovo Gorodishche (Rurik’s Fort)305A. S. Ostroverkhov (Odessa, Ukraine)Glass as Historical Phenomenon in the Late-Nomadic Society of the Northern Black-Sea Area (9th – 14th centuries A.D.)309E.N. Abyzova (Kishinev, Moldova), S.S. Ryabtseva (St. Petersburg, Russia – Kishinev Moldova)The Lotus from Costeşti and Monomakh’s Crown363

«BYZANTINE ETUDES»  

C. Chiriac (Iaşi, Romania)Byzantine Records about the Lower Danube Area in V-X centuries370O. M. Lugowy (Odessa, Ukraine)Russes and Scandinavians on Byzantine Service: Evolution of Names in Records of 10th – 12th388A. N. Domanovsky (Kharkov, Ukraine)M. Ia. Siuziumov’s «The Byzantine Etudes» in an Issue of the Russian «Variorum Reprints»395

ECO-SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTIONS  

S. A. Gorbanenko (Kiev, Ukraine)The enviroment and slavik settlements of the second half of the 1th A.D. (in according with materials of Left Bank Dnepr)400N. P. Telnov (Kishinev, Moldova)On Agricultural Activity of the Slavs in the Dniester-Prut Interfluvial Area (750-1000 A.D.)426L. Bejenaru (Iaşi, Romania), L. Bacumenco (Kishinev, Moldova – Iaşi, Romania)Zoomorphological Study and the Typology of Representation of Dragon Killed by Saint George431

HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND HISTORIOGRAPHY  

R. A. Rabinovich (Kishinev, Moldova)The Ulichi and the Tivertsi: Historiography Evaluations440S. I. Liman, S. B. Sorochan (Kharkov, Ukraine)Byzantium in Works of Scholars from Ukrainian Lands of the Russian Empire in 1804-1874485L. S. Klein (St. - Petersburg, Russia)Archaeology in St.-Petersburg and St.-Petersburg in Archaeology509

REVIEWS  

S. V. Beletzky, Ju. M. Lesman (St.-Petersburg, Russia)On the Lower Layer of Truvorovo City-Site (Notes to the Monograph by V.V. Sedov) Free!515

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION  

List of abbreviationsList Free!578