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Anatolii Nikolaevich Kirpichnikov (in Russian)

Programme of the International academic conference on the history of fortification dedicated to the 425th anniversary of the beginning of the construction of the Smolensk fortress wall and the Year of Science and Technology in Russia (Smolensk, October 15–17, 2021) (bilingual)

PRIMARY SOURCES

Kalinin V.I., Orlov V.A. Kowno Fortress and an assessment of its defense in 1915 by military engineer Lieutenant General A.V. von Schwartz (in Russian)

A.V. von-Schwartz. How the fortress of Kowno was attacked and taken (in Russian)

MIDDLE AGES AND EARLY MODERN HISTORY

Perbellini G. The Fortresses in the Lagoon and the Venetian gates in the Mediterranean Sea from 14^th to 18^th century (in English)

Koval V.V. Fortress in the village of Lukh, Ivanovo Region. History, research, reconstruction (in Russian)

Shevchenko E.A. Creation of defensive lines on the border of the state and urban planning as a purposeful process of formation of the system of settlement of the state at the end of 15^th–17^th centuries (in Russian)

Podluzniy D.A. Positioning of fortifications at Verhniy castle in Polotsk in the mid-16^th century (in Russian)

Milchik M.I. Who and when rebuilt the fortress of Koporye in the 16^th century? (in Russian)

Nossov K.S. Smolensk fortress wall of the turn of the 16^th–17^th centuries among Russian fortresses in the “Italian style” of the late 15^th – early 18^th centuries. Part 1 (in Russian)

Khokhlov A.N., Nesterova M.E., Soloviev D.B. Sheinov bastion of the Smolensk fortress: Results of archaeological research in 2019 (in Russian)

Davydov I. The entrenchments of the Russian army from the year 1700 in Narva (Estonia). Some preliminary results of studying of the fortification monument (in Russian)

Gostev I.M. Arkhangelsk military port fortifications (in Russian)

LATE MODERN HISTORY

Stromov P.A. Nikolayevskaya and Naslednitskaya fortresses: the historic monuments of Chelyabinsk region (in Russian)

Belik Yu.L. Some fortification features of the Kerch Fortress (in Russian)

Feng K., Lyu H. Research of an early 20^th century Russian Fortress on the Eastern Jiguan Mount, Lyu-shun (Port Arthur), China (In English)

Avilov R.S. The projects of the Peter the Great Gulf coast defense for confront marine landing of Japanese troops on the distant approaches of Vladivostok Fortress (1910) (in Russian)

HFSC COMPETITION for the best work on the history of fortification (bilingual)

BOOK REVIEWS (in Russian)