Летописный «Изяславль». Большое Шепетовское городище в свете археологии. Том I. Материалы раскопок М. К. Каргера 1957–1964 годов в исследованиях 1960–1980-х годов. Россиская академия нук. Институт истории материальной культуры. Труды. Т. LV. Нестор-История. Санкт-Петербург 2020

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(Review)Летописный «Изяславль». Большое Шепетовское городище в свете археологии. Том I. Материалы раскопок М. К. Каргера 1957–1964 годов в исследованиях 1960–1980-х годов. Российская академия нук. Институт истории материальной культуры. Труды. Т. LV. Нестор-История. Санкт-Петербург 2020 / Medieval “Izyaslavl’”. The Large Fortified Settlement near Shepetovka, in the light of archaeology. Volume I. Materials from the archaeological excavations of Mikhail Karger 1957–1964 investigated in the 1960s–1980s. Russian Academy of Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture. Proceedings. Vol. LV. Nestor-Historia. St. Petersburg 2020; Przegląd Archeologiczny, 70, 2022, s. 293-296. The medieval stronghold at the archaeological site Valy in a village Horodyshche (Shepetivka Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine) has been known to archaeologists since the late 19th century. in the years 1957-1964 the site was researched within large-scale excavations headed by Mikhail Karger. Last year, thanks to a grant from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Project no. 18-09-00753) the collection of elaborations of several categories of artifacts discovered at the site during the excavation esearch was published. The elaboration was edited by Anna Peskova, also the author of the short introduction and the history of the research in this volume. The volume was created in collaboration with Kirill Mikhajlov and Olga Shcheglova, in the scope of the illustrative material – with Ekaterina Kononovich and Evgeniia Nikitina.The number of scattered articles devoted to the stronghold in Horodyshche far exceeds 100, so it is evident that there was a great need for this monograph. The archaeological centre in St. Petersburg met that need presenting the discussed volume of elaborations – mainly archival, but still very valuable with a list of publications on the subject and illustrations (the only serious defect is the absence of a catalogue including the dimensions of individual artefacts, but it is understandable that the enormous number of findings made the preparation of such a catalogue impossible). Now, all we have to do is to wait for the second volume (or perhaps for the research into fortifications of this stronghold, but that is another matter). Finally, in the English-language part of the volume it is worth noting that local names from the contemporary area of Ukraine should be written in their transliterated Ukrainian versions instead of their Russian equivalents – for example: Shepetivka instead Shepetovka.