XIII Moscow yearly conference "Oriental antiquities in the history of Russia medieval epoch"

In the present issue of this journal there are presented transactions of theyearly scientific conference, focused on research in the field of Oriental antiquities ofthe mediaeval epoch. This conference is organized as an all-Moscow academic meeting,focused on joining efforts of Moscow specialists in Oriental mediaeval studies aroundscholarly discussion of topical problems, tasks, new research results, new projects andscientific methods. The conference was organized on the base of the Department ofMedieval archaeology of the Institute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences.