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DOI: 10.23671/VNC.2020.74.57957
SOME ISSUES OF THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE IRANIAN TRIBES IN SOUTH RUSSIA IN MODERN HISTORIOGRAPHY.
Chibirov, Alexey L.
Izvestia SOIGSI. 2020. Issue 35 (74).
Abstract:
The article on the basis of the historiographic data highlights the early history of the Iranian
tribes of Southern Russia, which inhabited the vast territory of the Great Steppe, stretching from the
Baikal in the east to the middle reaches of the Danube in the west. Being a gigantic natural corridor
connecting the civilizations of Asia and Europe, the Great Steppe was a natural continuation of the
Iranian cultural world, which determined the cultural image of the Caspian and the Aral Sea Asia
and was closely connected with the cultural world of Mesopotamia. The Great Steppe constantly
received a stream of nomad migrants moving from east to west. In historiography, the zone of constant
areal contacts is called the Circumpontic region, which from different directions was adjacent to the
Black Sea. Archeological data give grounds to see here the expansion of the Caucasian metallurgical
centers and related steppe groups into the Balkan-Danube region, which is the result of the settlement
of the ancient Indo-Europeans from the Caspian-Black Sea steppes to the west and south-west with
the further identification of specific Indo-European groups. One of the first scholars to pay close
attention to Iran and Hellenism as the basis on which Slavs arose in the southern Russian steppes
was M. I. Rostovtsev, whose role and significance for Russian archeology and study of antiquity can
hardly be overestimated.
Keywords: Rostovtsev, Scythians, Savromats, Sarmatians, Alans, Iranians, North Pontic region, Circumpontic zone.
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