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AD MEMORIAM
I. F. Grek (Kishinev, Moldova)V. Ya. Grosul and His Contribution in Historical Science Free!15M. Ts. Arzakanyan, A. A. Herzen (Moscow, Russian Federation)Vladislav Yakimovich Grosul and his Concept of the Ethnogenesis of Moldavians Free!27V. A. Sodol (Tiraspol, Moldova)V. Ya. Grosul as the Organizer and leader of studies in history of Transnistria Free!41I. D. Belous, I. K. Gorash (Kishinev, Moldova)A Historian at the Turn of Millennia Free!53L. Ya. Grosul (Kishinev, Moldova)A Brother with the Big ‘B’ Free!61N. V. Grosul (Moscow, Russian Federation)Vladislav Yakimovich as a Family Man Free!67Album of PhotosAlbum of Photos Free!71
“FROM THE HEROES OF YORE …”
V. I. Tsvirkun (Kishinev, Moldova)The Fate of the Will of Antioch Kantemir83N. D. Russev (Kishinev, Moldova), L. N. Pilyugina (Anapa, Russian Federation)In the Fatherland of a Russian Courtier: the Danube as I. P. Kutaisov’s Homeland103
TALENTS AND LEPTA OF THE ANTIQUITY
M. G. Abramzon (Magnitogorsk, Russian Federation), A. N. Voroshilov, O. M. Voroshilova (Moscow, Russian Federation)Coins from the Necropolis of Phanagoria (1975— 2021 Excavations)119S. A. Yatsenko (Moscow, Russian Federation), M. M. Choref (Nizhnevartovsk, Russian
Federation)On the Attribution of the Stater of King Mithridates, Found in 2013 during the Excavation of Artesian Fort137V. M. Orlyk (Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine)Copper Coins from Taulara of Mithridates VI Eupator Times from the Northern Black Sea Region and Eastern European Steppe and Forrest-Steppe149
HARD FLOWERS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
S. I. Kochkurkina (Pertozavodsk, Russian Federation)Coins as a Chronological Indicator of the Ladoga Kurgan Culture161A. V. Crivenco (Tiraspol, Moldova)Copper Coins of the Golden Horde Settlement Shehr al-Jadid169Yu. V. Zayonchkovskiy (Kharkiv, Ukraine)Imitations of Khan of “the Great Horde” Said- Ahmad’s Silver Coins and Their Issuers211K. V. Gorlov, S. V. Belskiy (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)Coins from the Excavations of the Late Medieval Vyborg217V. I. Milchev (Wuhu, CPR – Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine), D. V. Sen’ (Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation)Hoards and Hoard Hunting as a Sociocultural Phenomenon in the Life of the Cossacks in the 18th—19th Centuries239
SIGNS OF TIME
F. V. Shelov-Kovedyaev (Moscow, Russian Federation)About Formulas of Greek Magical Inscriptions from North Black Sea Shore259M. Nikolaev (Nikolaev, Ukraine)The Interpretation of the Magical Inscription DefOlb 24 with the Encoded Text269S. A. Yatsenko (Moscow, Russian Federation), E. B. Shevchenko, V. P. Usenko (Odessa, Ukraine)On the Series of Stone Slabs with Sarmatian Tamga Signs in Odessa Archaeological Museum277E. V. Salmina, S. A. Salmin (Pskov, Russian Federation)Finds of Small Leaden Seals of the “Drogichin Type” in Pskov (2017—2020)313
TRANSFORMATIONS IN JOCHI’S ULUS
S. G. Bocharov (Yalta, Crimea), A. N. Maslovskiy (Azov, Russian Federation)Some Reflections about the Evolution of Golden Horde Towns319V. P. Kirilko (Simferopol, Crimea)Mihrab of the Stary Krym Mosque Associated with Khan Uzbek331
ORTHODOX DIMENSIONS
I. P. Vozny (Chernivtsi, Ukraine)Funerary Rite as an Element of the Spiritual Culture of the Population of the Northern Part of Bukovina in the 10th—13th Centuries351S. V. Gorokhov (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation)Distribution Areas of Some Types of Body Crosses Referred to the 17th—19th Centuries in Russia373
COMMUNICATING WITH THE AFTERWORLD
D. D. Beliaev (Moscow, Russian Federation)Appealing to the Gods and Ancestors: Ancient Maya Conch Shell Trumpets as Ritual Instruments387S. F. Tataurov, L. V. Tataurova (Omsk, Russian Federation)Siberian Customs and Rituals in Archaeology: “Mouse, take my baby tooth and give me a new one — durable”401
MODERN RELIGIOUS PRACTICES
N. S. Dushakova (Moscow, Russian Federation)Online Worship Services and Baptizing in Front of the Camera: Mediatization of Religious Practices among Old Believers415I. S. Dusacova, E. D. Vladimirov (Moscow, Russian Federation)Nerworks of Actors and Control over Information: How Russian Orthodox Church Interacts427
INVESTIGABILES VIAE DOMINI
M. A. Kudinova, S. A. Komissarov, A. I. Soloviev (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation)Epigraphic and pictorial materials from An Jia the tomb (preliminary report)439
PRESENTATION
R. A. Rabinovici (Kishinev, Moldova)To ‘cherish the memory of an extraordinary talented person’ Book. Presentation: Karyshkovsky P.O. 2022. The Balkan Adventure of Knyaz Svyatoslav 967—971 (a source study). Studia Militaria Balcanica Series. Varna-Chisinau-Odessa: Slavena Publishing Free!457
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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