Vol 1, No 1 (2019)

The article is devoted to the formation of the management system in the national peripheries of Russian empire, namely general-governorates. The author discusses the place and role of these territorial units in the structure of imperial regional management.

The article is devoted to the Participation of power and society in the medical and social assistance to war prisoners during the World War I.

The author reveals some of the problems faced by the leadership of the young Soviet state in the second half of February 1918.

During convocation of the Swedish estate parliament in 1746-1747 fight of the pro-Russian batch of «caps» against the pro-French and pro-Prussian party of «hats» ended with defeat of the supporters of rapprochement with Russia who were acting in the union with the Russian diplomacy. Using unlawful methods and cunning, the «hats» achieved arrests and dismissals of their rivals from the state posts. The aspiration of the Swedish nobility and city estate to get rid of Russian influence was the reason of victory of «hats» who were hoping for support of Prussia and France. The Russian diplomacy was defeated, but as a result the «hats» themselves preferred friendship with Russia, and in 1757 entered war against Prussia which had not justify their hopes.

The article is devoted to the study of structure and activities of the archives of the Russiaт Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the period of formation and reform of the Ministry. The Ministry had in its structure three main archives where the most important governmental papers were kept. At the same time, the archives accumulated the entire political correspondence of the Ministry with their missions in Europe and were academic institutions that provided scholars with the opportunity to use documentary material to create major historical chronicles.

The article is a brief historical survey devoted to some aspects of a complex historical problem: genesis, formation, and evolution of the political bodies of the Soviet military forces.

The authors conducted verification of 21 Mesolithic and 28 Neolithic sites of the region. They choose the following characteristics as the main metric indicators: the area of the site, the height of the location above the water level, and the thickness of the cultural layer. The authors conducted a discriminant analysis of the selected groups of sites. The result of correct classification is 69.4%, which can be considered as satisfactory. The authors identified groups of Mesolithic and Neolithic sites with the highest percentages of belonging to groups. Based upon, it was possible to calculate the average metric characteristics for each group of sites. The Mesolithic sites in average have an area of 3,300 m², are located at height of 15 m above the level of water reservoir, and have a cultural layer thickness of 0.2 m. These characteristics correspond to 17 of the 21 sites. The Neolithic settlements in average have an area of more than 16,000 m², are located at height of 6 m above the water level and have a cultural layer thickness of 0.8 m. The 17 of 28 Neolithic settlements correspond to these average characteristics. Discriminant analysis showed that four Mesolithic sites have Neolithic features according to the selected criteria. Five Neolithic sites have both Neolithic and Mesolithic features. The most interesting is the group of six Neolithic sites, which were classified as Mesolithic with a probability of almost 70%. Most of them belong to the early Neolithic. Consequently, the settlements of the Early Neolithic by many criteria do not differ from the sites of the Late Mesolithic. The period of the Late Mesolithic - Early Neolithic must be considered as a single epoch when the neolitization process was going on in the region. Discriminant analysis has proved that there is real correlation between the metric indices of the archaeological site and its age.