Ad gloriam

Life Behind Biography. A Contribution to P.P. Byrnja’s 70th Anniversary .......... 11
Collegues about P.P. Byrnja .......... 15
List of Published Scientific Works by P.P. Byrnea .......... 21

The Northern Rus’

V.V. Sedov (Moscow, Russia). Development of the Culture of Pskov Long Mounds .......... 26
E.R.Mikhailova (S.-Petersburg, Russia). Study of Pskov-Novgorod Long Barrows: History .......... 32
S. Kuz’min (S.-Petersburg, Russia). The Stratigraphy and Some Problems of History of the Old Ladoga Settlement Dated by VIII-X Centuries .......... 50

Investigations and Publications

S.L. Kuzmin, E.R. Mikhailova, V.Yu. Sobolev (S.-Petersburg, Russia). The Grave Ground in Kotorsk IX – Cemetery of Kotorsk Population .......... 70
G.F. Chebotarenko, N.P. Telnov (Kishinev, Moldova). The Settlement of Etulia-VII in Moldavia .......... 83
O.G. Levitkii, V.P. Haheu (Kishinev, Moldova), S.S. Ryabtseva (St.- Petersburg, Russia – Kishinev, Moldova). Giurgiulesti Find in the Mirror of Jewellery Fashion of X-XI centuries .......... 90
G.Atanasov (Silistra, Bulgaria), V.Yotov (Varna, Bulgaria), G.Zasypkina, N.Russev (Kishinev, Moldova). Research of a Settlement at Ruino – Kartal-kale (Preliminary Report) .......... 97
N.P.Telnov, T.F.Ryaboy (Kishinev, Moldova). Golden Horde Town at the Village of Costeshti in Moldavia .......... 108

From Byzantine to the Steppe

Karl von der Lohe (Munich, Germany). The Cemetery Skalistoe in Crimea and Early Phases in the Ethnic Genesis of Crimean Goths (Late IV – Early VI cc.) .......... 119
P.V. Shuvalov (S.-Petersburg, Russia). The Weakness of the Venethi and the Srength of the Anti : on the Question of the Epic Image of the Early Slavs .......... 141
Z.A. Lvova (S.-Petersburg, Russia). «Burials in Malaya Pereschepina and Voznesenka and Kuvrat, Kagan of Great Bulgaria» .......... 145
S.S. Ryabtseva (S.-Petersburg, Russia – Kishinev, Moldova). Three-bead Rings from Vistula to Volga .......... 161
G. Atanasov (Silistra, Bulgaria). Treasures of Agricultural Tools from Early Medieval Fortresses of Southern Dobrudja (X – early XI cc.) .......... 183
V. Yotov (Varna, Bulgaria). On Material Culture of the Petchenegers South of Danube: Leaf-shaped Open-work Amulets of XI Centure .......... 209
N.D. Russev (Kishinev, Moldova). "All the Wealth Flow Here": Anthropology of the Danube Tragedy of 968-971 .......... 213
I.G.Konovalova (Moscow, Russia). The oriental policy of Svjatoslav in the context of international struggle for «khazarian heritage» .......... 226
V.V. Majko (Simferopol’, Ukraine). Chazarian-Russian-Byzantine Relation in the Second Half of X c. and Crimean Khazaria .......... 236

Monograph in the Journal

R.A. Rabinovich (Kishinev, Moldova). Tempted by «Nux Gallica», or the Balkan Wallachians and the Russian Magi .......... 262

The Archaeology of Architecture

I.O. Popov (S.-Petersburg, Russia). Residences of Knyaz in pre-Mongol Russia: chronicles and archaeological reality .......... 391
N.V. Novoselov (S.-Petersburg, Russia). Plyntha of the Novgorod Land in the First Half of XII Century .......... 407
E.A. Aibabina, S.G. Bocharov (Simferopol’, Ukraine). On Attribution of a Medieval Church in Feodosia .......... 425
Gh. I. Cantacuzino (Bucharest, Romania). A Mausoleum Church of XV Century Founded by Stefan cel Mare in Razboieni .......... 426

The Ottoman Fortresses in the Black Sea Region

G.O. Astvatsaturov (Bendery, Moldova). Why Beauplan kept silence? .......... 440
I.V. Bruyako, I.V. Sapozhnikov (Odessa, Ukraine). The Belgorod-Dnestrovskiy Fortress as a Model of Military and Engineering Art: Main Stages of History – late XIV – early XIX c.c. .......... 443
S.V. Palamarchuk (Izmaїl, Ukraine). The Town of Izmaїl: Early Stages .......... 452
A.O. Dobrolyubskii, A.V. Krasnozhon (Odessa, Ukraine). A Turkish Settlement and Castle Khadzhibey on territory of Odessa .......... 459

Our Archive

G.V. Batizat (Odessa, Ukraine). Early Christian and Byzantine Records on Spread of Christianity on the Territory of Today’s Ukraine .......... 477

The Organization of Science

M.Gojda (Prague, Czech Republic). The Archaeology in the Czech Republic: Site Record and Protection, Reconnaissance of the Ancient and Historical Landscape .......... 502

Reviews

L.A. Mosionjnic (Kishinev, Moldova). The Concept of Hierophany with Mircea Eliade (Marginalia in a Book) .......... 510
N. Knight (South Orange, USA). «Salvage Biography» and Useable Pasts: Russian Ethnographers Confront the Legacy of Terror .......... 519

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS .......... 526