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Micromorphological features of medieval cultural layers formed in different environmental backgrounds
Boletin de la Sociedad Geologica Mexicana. 2022. Vol. 74. No. 3. Article A080822.
Bronnikova M., Karpova J., Murasheva V., Kochkina A. F., Stashenkov D. A., Arzhantseva I., Haerke H. G.
This research compares results of micromorphological case studies conducted on four early medieval archaeological sites with differentiated spatialization of human impacts and a varied craft production located in different background environments: humid climate, subzone of mixed forests, floodplain of the Dnieper River (Gnezdovo site); semi-humid climate, subzone of forest-steppe, Middle Volga region (Muromsky Gorodok and Malaya Ryazan’ sites); arid climate, cold desert of the Aral region, ancient delta-alluvial plain of the Syr-Darya River (Dzhankent site).
Новикова А. Д., Электронный научно-образовательный журнал "История" 2026 Т. 17 № 2(160)
This article examines the residence of the British envoy James Harris in St. Petersburg (1777—1783) as an instrument of his diplomatic mission. Despite growing scholarly interest in informal diplomacy, the embassy house as a space for representation and everyday sociability has rarely been the subject of dedicated research. Drawing on a wide range of sources, ...
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Гребенников Н. Ю., Ежегодник финно-угорских исследований 2025 Т. 19 № 4 С. 628–634
The article examines an inconspicuous episode that occurred during Batu's second campaign against Rus’, which is usually dated by researchers to 1239–1241. The author puts forward and substantiates the possible reasons that prompted the Mongol military leaders to send a second military expedition to North-Eastern Rus’ in the winter of 1239/1240, which also affected the ...
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Mustafin A., Russian Journal of Economics 2026 No. 1 P. 137–152
This article examines archival records on crop yields and recruit numbers in eighteenth-century Russia, analyzing their dynamics and comparing them with data on recruits’ height as an indicator of changes in the standard of living. The study uses more than one hundred and ten archival sources, enabling the construction of time series. The resulting numbers ...
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Sharova A. V., Средние века 2025 Т. 86 № 4 С. 148–170
"IMPACT THEMES" FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF MEDIEVAL STUDIES IN THE INSTITTE OF HISTORY OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE USSR: THE YEAR 1937
The article is devoted to the story about the beginning of the work of the Department of Medieval studies of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences on the ...
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Выпуск содержит статьи участников XXXVIII Чтений па мяти чл.-корр. АН СССР В.Т. Пашуто, посвященных формам «проявления» будущего в настоящем; месту и роли «будущего в настоящем» в литературном тексте; жанровым особенностям «текстов о будущем»; влиянию предсказаний на реальное бу дущее; социокультурному значению «будущего в настоящем». Эта проблематика раскрывается на материале европейских и азиатских обществ Древности и ...
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Alla P., Наука в мегаполисе 2023 № 4
The unprecedented «liberalization» of economic relations, which began in the conditions of perestroika, has put society before a choice – to change the way of life or stick to the old foundations. The author examines the functioning of Soviet society during the period of Gorbachev's economic reforms, which influenced the emergence of a stratum of ...
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Alla P., Малышева О. Г., Исторический журнал: научные исследования 2025 № 2 С. 118–131
In the early 1990s, the press was one of the main sources of information for the Russian population, so the central newspapers contain a large amount of information about the events of those years. The subject of the research is the publications of Nezavisimaya Gazeta, which was founded by the Moscow City Council before its ...
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Alla P., Вестник Московского городского педагогического университета. Серия: Исторические науки 2024 № 4 С. 131–142
The article examines the problem of coverage of the political crisis of autumn 1993 in Russia by Runet bloggers. In the last decade, new media have grown significantly stronger and gained authority for a wide audience to whom they tell and attempt to explain the past and present. The main provisions of videos about the ...
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Alla P., Манускрипт 2024 Т. 17 № 4 С. 525–531
The study aims to examine the views of Russian researchers on socio-political processes at the regional level during the constitutional-political crisis of 1992-1993. The article discusses scholars' works on the problem of political confrontation in 1992-1993, when the subjects of the Russian Federation became one of the parties to this process. As the confrontation between ...
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Alla P., Genesis: исторические исследования 2024 № 7 С. 51–61
The article is devoted to the reflection of the political crisis of the end of 1993 in the provincial periodical of Murom, Vladimir region. The author refers to the journalistic articles of the local newspaper "Muromsky Krai" from September 23, when the first information about the events in Moscow was published, to December 23, when ...
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Alla P., Вопросы национальных и федеративных отношений 2025 Т. 15 № 3 С. 439–445
Crisis forces countries to look for options to improve the lives of citizens and the functioning of the political system. Russia is no exception in this regard. The article analyzes the socio-political processes in the USSR and the Russian Federation in 1985-1993 through the prism of modernization theory. The study is based on the principles ...
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Loktionov A., Tsipileva A., Journal of Language Pedagogy and Innovative Applied Linguistics 2025 Vol. 3 No. 2 P. 39–44
Historically Russia has enjoyed a rich Egyptological tradition, but currently suffers from a shortage of qualified scholars in this field. This is connected to a lack of modern resources for teaching Ancient Egyptian language geared towards Russian students, which means that even though Russia has impressive museum collections in the subject, the country finds it ...
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Дёмин Ю. А., Iranian Studies 2026 Vol. 59 No. 1 P. 55–72
The first decade after the end of the revolutionary events in Gilan (1920-21) was a period of active attempts by the Bolsheviks, the Communist International and the Communist Party of Iran to gain a solid social foothold in Iran. Thispaper, based mainly on Russian archival sources, focuses on studying the dynamics of the guidelines of the CommunistInternational and the Communist Party of Iran, the attempts and features of their implementation, as well as on therelationship of the Iranian Communists with the Bolsheviks and the leadership of the Communist International. The studydemonstrates that the main efforts of the Reds in 1922-25 were aimed at building an inter-class coalition, wherecooperation with Reza Khan became only part of these broader efforts. The failures led the Reds to a previously testedcourse of fomenting the agrarian revolution in Iran and repeated fiascos. Throughout this period, the leadership of the Communist Party of Iran was not a simple executor of directives, but took an active part in the decision-making process,involved the Bolsheviks in its internal party struggle and challenged high-ranking functionaries of the Communist International. ...
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Федоров Р. Ю., Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: История 2026 № 1(72) С. 170–180
Ethnocultural processes among Molokans living in rural areas of Omsk region and the city of Omsk in the 20th – the first quarter of the 21st century are considered. The research sources used were materials from ethnographic expeditions conducted in the Odessa and Novovarshavsky districts of the Omsk region, as well as documentary sources stored ...
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Mazhinskiy S., Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность 2026 № 1 С. 218–230
he article is devoted to one of the most pressing social phenomena in modern China –involution. This term appeared in public discourse in 2017 and has not lost its relevance to thisday. Involution in the socio-cultural dimension of Chinese society means irrational competition,rivalry until complete victory. This entails heightened social competition, which brings Chinesesociety to ...
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Boris E. Alexandrov, Vestnik Drevnei Istorii 2025 Vol. 85 No. 3 P. 537–549
The article offers a new treatment of the inscription commissioned by the Assyrian king Adad-nērārī I (1295–1264 BC) and now widely known, thanks to A.K. Grayson’s 1987 edition, as A.0.76.5. The text comes from Qalʽat Širqāṭ / Aššur; in the early 1920s it was brought to Lvov, at that time a part of Poland, and ...
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Kurbanova F., Konstantinov E. A., Lebedeva M. P. et al., Catena 2025 Vol. 255 Article 109011
The Kostenki-Borshevo archaeological complex, located on the right bank of the Don Valley, is the largest cluster of Upper Paleolithic sites in Eastern Europe. Despite extensive research, many paleoecological issues related to these sites remain unresolved, particularly those concerning the history of their surface and pedogenic processes. In this study, we focus on the topography ...
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Mingalev V. V., Мингалева М. К., В кн.: Культура русских в археологических исследованиях: сборник научных статей. В 2-х томах: Том 1.: Издательский Дом "Наука", 2024. С. 153–158.
The article investigate part of a large collection of rings found during archaeological excavations in the Perm. All artefacts are from the cultural layer of the 18th century. The introduction describes a brief history of the place of excavations with reference to old maps of city, and the general conclusions of the excavation results and ...
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Karpova J. O., Bronnikova M. A., Lebedeva M. P. et al., Eurasian Soil Science 2025 Vol. 58 Article 36
The article is devoted to the features of the cultural layer of the early medieval settlement of Dzhankent in the Eastern Aral Sea region ...
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Bricheva S., Akhmetgaleeva N., Panin A. et al., Anthropologie 2024 Vol. 128 No. 2 Article 103241
The Byki complex on the left bank of the Seim River (Desna basin) comprises eight sites, including multilayer ones, differing chronologically and culturally. The dates of key cultural layers are from 21 to 18 thousand BP. Questioning the use of local landscapes by prehistoric people and the reasons for repeated occupation of the area required ...
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Vasilyev S., Puzanova T., Vasilyev D. et al., International Journal of Anthropology 2021 Vol. 36 No. 1-2 P. 119–137
The article discusses the possibilities of using various geoarchaeological methods for a burial mound located in the Caspian Lowland. The investigated mound group “Bogomolnye Peski – 1” is a vivid example of a unique monument, since it was originally constructed during the Bronze Age (the first structure) and then completed in the Early Iron Age, ...
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Ф. Г. Курбанова, Пузанова Т. А., Асеева Е. Н. et al., Геоморфология и палеогеография (ранее - Геоморфология) 2022 Т. 53 № 5 С. 32–47
Due to isolation from the external environment, the soils buried under the mounds of burial complexes are valuable natural archives that provide information on the past environments. The paper deal with soils buried under mounds in the Middle Ages with a short time interval - 25-50 years. The research included the detailed field morphological description ...
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Kurbanova F., Makeev A., Aseyeva E. et al., Catena 2023 Vol. 220 Article 106675
Soils buried under five defensive ramparts of the Early Iron and Middle Ages were studied in the forest-steppe zone of the Russian Plain (Lipetsk region, Russia). The time of the burial differs from each other for hundred years allowing studying variation of soil properties based on short-term chronosequences within these ranges and reconstructing the comparatively ...
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Arzhantseva I., Haerke H. G., Tazhekeev A., , in: Proceedings of the international scientific and practical conference “Methods and methodology of archaeological sciences in archaeological field research”, 18 September 2019, Al-Farabi National Kazakh University.: Almaty: Kazakh Universiteti Almaty, 2019. P. 4–11.
Report on the methods (geophysics, geomorphology, palaeobotany, micromycology) used in the fieldwork in the early medieval town of Dzhankent (Kazakhstan) ...
Added: October 26, 2019