Memoirs of the oriental department of the russian archaeological society. New series. SPb, 2002. V. I.

ИНСТИТУТ ИСТОРИИ МАТЕРИАЛЬНОЙ КУЛЬТУРЫ
РОССИЙСКОЙ АКАДЕМИИ НАУК

Memoirs of the oriental department of the russian archaeological society. New series. SPb, 2002. V. I. Contents

From the Editorial Board

Articles and Notes

O. F. Akimushkin (Sankt-Petersburg). The "Hasanat al-abrar" of the shaikh Muhammad-Murad Kashmiri - a rare late 17th-century hagiography of the Naqshbandiya-Mujaddidiyya brotherhood
N. Al'meeva (Sankt-Petersburg). "Cultural layers" of traditional mu-sical consciousness (An Islam-Christian Borderland in the Middle Volga area and Tatar song folklore)
A. A. Ambartsumian (Sankt-Petersburg). An ethnonym "Hyaona" in the Avesta
Yu. A. Vinogradov (Sankt-Petersburg). Saltovo-Maiatsk Culture complexes of the settlement of Artiushchenko I on the Taman peninsula
T. I. Vinogradova (Sankt-Petersburg). Inscriptions and texts on the Chinese popular woodblock prints nianhua
Yu. A. Zadneprovsky (Sankt-Petersburg). Disputable problems in the study of red-angob pottery of Ferghana
N. V. Ivochkina (Sankt-Petersburg). Chinese bronze coin as a World model
J. Ya. Ilyasov, R. Imamberdyev (Tashkent, Uzbekistan). New arabic inscriptions on glazed pottery of Binkath
N. V. Kozyreva (Sankt-Petersburg). Two Old Babylonian seals with the name of the god Amurru from the Hermitage collection
A. I. Kolesnikov (Sankt-Petersburg). The studies on Middle-Iranian numismatics in the 19th century
B. D. Kochnev (Samarkand, Uzbekistan). Who was the conqueror of Buqa-Budrach: from Qara-Khanid history
B. A. Litvinsky (Moscow). The hunting Bactrians
A. K. Nefedkin (Sankt-Petersburg). Defence and siege of the nomadic Chukchi people (second half of the 17th - 18th centuries)
V. P. Nikonorov (Sankt-Petersburg). Warfare of the European Huns in the light of the data of Graeco-Latin literary tradition
I. V. P'iankov (Velikii Novgorod). Halizones - Chalybes - Moschi (On the Circum-Pontic caste of metallurgists of the late 2nd - 1st millinnia B.C.)
E. V. Rtveladze (Tashkent, Uzbekistan). On the division into periods of the history of coin circulation in the Middle Asian Two-River area in Antiquity
N. F. Savvonidi (Sankt-Petersburg). On the spread of the Christian notions in the Northern Pontic area during Roman times
W. Swietoslawski (Lodz, Poland). Poisonous gases in Tartar-Mongol warfare
A. I. Torgoev (Bishkek, Kyrghyzstan). A rare bronze jug from the Chui valley
S. A. Frantsouzoff (Sankt-Petersburg). The significance of the Soviet-Yemenite complex expedition (SOYCE) for the study of Southern Arabia (An epigraphic aspect)
N. A. Khan (Kirov). Science-metrical measuring of cadre potential for the archaeology of Middle Asia in the Soviet period
Yu. S. Khudiakov (Novosibirsk). Archaeological collections in the museums of Northern China (according to materials of the UNESCO expedition "The Great Silk route")
P. V. Shuvalov (Sankt-Petersburg). Enemies of the Empire (The neighbouring peoples in Pseudo-Maurice's treatise)
A. Ya. Shchetenko (Sankt-Petersburg). Cultural heritage of the Ancient Indian civilisation (according to archaeological data)

Outstanding Russian Orientalists

N. Ye. Vasil'eva (Sankt-Petersburg). Viktor Ivanovich Rozen as a founder of the School of Oriental studies in Russia
N. A. Lazarevskaya (Sankt-Petersburg). Nikolai Ivanovich Veselovsky as an explorer of Middle Asia (according to data from the Photo Archives of the Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
V. M. Masson (Sankt-Petersburg). Iosif Abgarovich Orbeli and archaeology
V. A. Yakobson (Sankt-Petersburg). Igor' Mikhailovich D'iakonov as a historian

Scientific Life

D. Abdulloev (Sankt-Petersburg). The International conference devoted to the 1100th anniversary of the formation of the Samanid state
V. M. Masson, V. P. Nikonorov (Sankt-Petersburg). The International conference "The Cultural Heritage of the East"

The CIS scientific Space

A. Ashirov (Ashgabat, Turkmenistan). The Turkmenbashi National Institute of manuscripts of Turkmenistan
G. Ismailzade (Baku, Azerbaijan). The University Khazar - a new high educational institution of Azerbaijan

Personalia

L. M. Vseviov, V. P. Nikonorov (Sankt-Petersburg). In Memory of Tat'iana Nikolaevna Zadneprovskaya (1926-2001)

New books (revues and annotations)

K. M. Baipakov (Almaty, Kazakhstan). New Books on the archae-ology of Kazakhstan
Yu. G. Kutimov (Sankt-Petersburg). The Series "Osh-3000 and cul-tural heritage of the peoples of Kyrghyzstan"
V. M. Masson (Sankt-Petersburg). Rec. ad op.: Prospections arche-ologiques en Bactriane Orientale. Vol. 2. Lyonnet B. Ceramique peuplent du chalcholithque a la conquete arabe. Paris, 1997; Vol. 3. Gardin J.-C. Description des sites et notes de synthese. Paris 1998
V. A. Meshkeris (Sankt-Petersburg). Music archaeology of the East in the German two-volume edition "Studien zur Musikar-chaologie"
B. Ya. Stavisky (Moscow). New books about ancient Central Asia
A. Ya. Shchetenko (Sankt-Petersburg). Rec. ad. op.: Sovetskaia ark-heologicheskaia literatura: bibliograficheskii ukazatel'. 1985-1987 / By R. Sh. Levina, L. M. Vseviov. Sankt-Petersburg 1999

List of abbreviations

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