Гуманитарные и юридические исследования (Sep 2021)
ON STUDYING THE HISTORY OF THE GREAT SILK ROAD (REVIEW OF DIFFERENT STUDIES)
Abstract
The theme of the Great Silk Road (GSR) has become popular in Russia since the early 1990s, when, as a result of political changes, the country became more open to the outside world. Scientists of Russia and other countries have shown great attention to the historical experience of the GSR due to the fact that it provides a unique opportunity to trace the trans-regional integration ties within Eurasia over the past two thousand years. In the universities of the North Caucasus, interest in the topic of GSR is logical, since one of the sections of the Silk Road was held here. The experience of studying the history of high school education is examined in joint projects carried out by scientists of the Central and the North Caucasus region, within the framework of which scientiic conferences are held at universities, dissertations are defended, elective disciplines are read. Significant forums in which the problems of studying relations between the peoples of Northern Eurasia were presented at the interregional scientific conference "The Minayev Readings" held at the history department of Stavropol State University, and now the representative international scientific and practical conference "The Historical and Cultural Heritage of the Great Silk Road and promotion of tourist destinations in the North Caucasus", held in the North Caucasus Federal University. A representative example of a study that raises issues of intra-Eurasian communication back in antiquity is the Ph.D. thesis of the South Korean representative Lee Ji Eun, defended at the Stavropol State University and devoted to the topic of contacts between the early nomads of the South Russian steppes with Chinese civilization, in which the author studies Chinese imports and imitations of monuments between them South Ural and the Balkans. In the universities of the North Caucasus, there is experience in the development of periodizations of world history, in which the GSR acts as an important artery that promoted the integration of very distant peoples into the world-historical process, in antiquity and the Middle Ages (the history department of the Armavir State Pedagogical University). The universities of the North Caucasus contribute to the development of the problems of the GSR, which is of great practical importance today in connection with the development of international partnership and tourism.
