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Hazar scientific project of Jewish University in Moscow

About the program:

The work on complex Hazar project is being held on the base of Jewish University in Moscow from 2000.

Managing organization:

Jewish University in Moscow

Activities:

Hazar project includes several destinations of research. Each o them means creative work on unknown or little known up to nowadays materials (mainly archeological) dealt with Hazar Kaganat, the only one medieval state with Judaism as official religion.

The main project’s destination is complex archeological expedition working in the site of ancient settlement Samodelka (island in the Volga delta, Astrakhan region). According to preliminary data here was the largest in region monument of the epoch before Mongols, legendary Hazar capital Itil.

Supervisors: 

Candidate of Historic science Irina A. Arzhantseva

Doctor of Historic Science, head of the department for history of Russia and Jews of Russia and Eastern Europe in the Jewish University in Moscow Vladimir Y. Petrukhin.

How to contact us:

Moscow, Mokhovaya street, 9, office 389

Tel/fax: 203 - 3441,  250-2989 




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