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2025/2(41)
special issue


Scientific practical conference
of graduate students
and young scientists

ARTS AND CULTURE SCIENCES:
ADVANCED RESEARCH

Moscow, 2025, 22-23 January

Part 1


REPORTS


Bazhenova I.

Synthesis of genres in theatrical arts (on the example of the Musical theatre ‘On Basmannaya’)


Berezina N.

Best practices for the implementation of modern measures for the preservation, use and popularization of cultural heritage
in the Vologda region


Borsukovskaya G.

The cultural system of the indigenous population of the Canary islands as a relic of Neolithic culture


Borunov S.

Specifics of commemoration
of the events of the Crimean front
of the Great Patriotic war in fiction cinematography of the Stalin and Khrushchev periods of the USSR (1944–1964)


Valkova I.

Testing of individual methods
for removing dirt from the surface
of furniture without a finishing coating


Garafutdinov D.

The period of formation of the Chekhov International theater festival as a new theatrical institution


Kostin N.

Regional сultural and information policy: challenges and prospects


Orlov S.

Artificial intelligence and determining the authorship of electronic texts
as a cultural problem


Talovin K.

Cultural potential of archaeological metal finds


Chebykin D.

The specifics of the implementation of soft power in foreign cultural policy (USA, China and Russia
for examples)




Publ. 06/05/2025


Archives

UDC 904

Volkov I.

Verifying location of Italian trade station of Copa in the medieval town
of Temryuk (Copario – Lo Coppa) (Part 1)

Abstract. The paper attempts to locate the Genovese trading station of Copa, constantly mentioned in the European written sources of 13th-14th cc. Copa was obviously situated at the Azov Sea coast nearby the Kuban river mouth that was indicated under the same name. Medieval portolano-maps approximate location of the main bed of the Kuban river during 13th-15th cc. at the contemporary estuary of the Kurka river. This fact negates proposition to locate this site in the modern town of Slavyansk-na-Kubani or at the Kiziltash estuary that was the principal estuary of Kuban river during 17th-19th cc. Not far from the Kurchansk estuary only two settlements with the corresponding cultural layers are found, namely Golubitzkaya-1 and Temruk-1. Both settlements had been had situated nearby the Kuban river distributaries flowing into the Azov Sea up to 19th c.

There is written source of the Russian provenance directly indicating that the fortress of Temryuk (known as castle of Adas as well) was built in Copa. The field collections of pottery on the site of Temryuk-1 by Ya.M. Paromov point to the fact that it was inhabited no later than 13th c. and was occupied until 18th c. So, location of Copa on the site of Temruk-1 (45º17’50’’ N, 37º20’08’’ E) is to be finally accepted. The place name of Copario used in “Statute of Caffa. 1449” presumably corresponds to the whole coastal area of the Kuban river delta under control of town of Coppa, but limited by the Akhtarsk estuary from the north.

Key words: Copa, Copario, portolano-maps, “Statute of Caffa. 1449”, the Golden Horde, Genovese trading stations, Temryuk, Golubitzkaya, Kuban river, the Azov Sea, Adas.


Volkov Igor Viktorovich,
PhD in History,
Leading Researcher, D.Likhachev’s Russian
Scientific Research Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage (Moscow)

Published: The Heritage Institute Journal, 2015/2

URL: http://nasledie-journal.ru/en/journals/33.html



Founder

Likhachev Russian Research
Institute for Cultural
and Natural Heritage

Publisher

Likhachev Russian Research
Institute for Cultural
and Natural Heritage

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of the Mass information media
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ЭЛ № ФС 77–60211,
date: 17.12.2014


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