Medvedskaya I.N. Ancient Iran on the Eve of Empires (9—6 В. C.). The History of the Median Kingdom. St Petersburg, Peterburgskoe Vostokovedenie Publishers 2010. 264 p.
The book surveys the history of the Median kingdom, the first Iranian state founded in the first half of the 7th century B.C. which continued to 550 B.C., when the Median throne passed to the Achaemenid dynasty.
The Fifth International Academic Conference “The Turko-Mongol World: History and Culture” in memoriam of Sergei G. Klyashtorny (1928–2014) will be held on February 20–21, 2023. The programme of the conference is now available.