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In honour of R.M. Munchaev and V.A. Gaibov

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L.Kh. Mustafayev, U.R. Heydarova (Baku) – Ancient City of Gabala: Archaeological Finds of the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Period

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T.N. Smekalova (Simferopol) – Discovery of the Bronze Age Pinfolds in Northwestern Crimea: Remote Sensing and Geophysical Methods

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R.S. Melikov (Baku) –Median Language and Some Old Median Etymologies

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A.N. ogly Alimirzoyev (Baku) – Who was the Third Ruler of the Gutium

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S.V. Obukhov (Moscow) – Commagene and the Persian Empire of the Achaemenids (Base on Archaeological Sources)

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V.P. Orlov (Kazan) – Persian Aristocracy in the Achaemenid Empire: Social Status (on the Meaning of the Term Bandakā

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А.А. Malyshev (Moscow) – The Abrau Peninsula in Ancient Times (Historiographical Essay)

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I.A. Astakhov (Tula) – Stone Projectiles from Excavation at the Belinskoe Fortress

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A.N. Abramova (Volgograd), D.V. Pezhemsky (Moscow)– Experience in Morphometric Analysis of Skeletal Remains Poor Preservation (Based on Materials from the Ancient Burial Ground Volna 1, Taman Peninsula). Part 1

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O.M. Voroshilova (Moscow) – Pyxides from the Late Antique Phanagoria

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D.V. Kareev (Ivanovo) – Batlle of the Fortress Singara and Roman Persian Wars of Constantius II: the Chronology and Sequence of Events

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M.S. Gadzhiev (Makhachkala), Sh.O. Davudov (Rostov-on-Don) – A Group of Early Medieval Metal Mirrors from Dagestan

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O.A. Nalivayko (Moscow) – Medicine in Japan: Medieval Traditions and Western Science

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I.A. Druzhinina (Moscow) – Necropolis Near the Village of Kashkhatau (on the Materials of Researches by I.A. Vladimirov, 1987)

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S.G. Shulezhkova, O.V. Mikhina (Magnitogorsk) – Commentary on Simeon’s Micellany (According to Svetoslav’s Collection of 1073. Vol. 3. Greek Sources. Sofi a: Publishing House of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. 2015)

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ANCIENT CIVILIZATION: NEW DISCOVERIES

V.A. Gaibov (Moscow) – The Changly Fortress and its Neighborhood: the Evolution of Development

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IN WORLD MUSEUMS

U.M. Volkova (Moscow) – F.P. Tolstoy’s Portrait of the Emperor Alexander I Represented as Rodomysl: Some Peculiarities

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