"A Large Mosque Which Ruins Are Still Visible": Domestic Historiography from the Last Quarter of the Eighteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century on the Mosque of the Mediaeval Fortress of Kyrk-Er (Chufut-Kale)
This article addresses the history of research of the mosque located in of the mediaeval settlement of Kyrk-Er (Chufut-Kale) and suggests the main stages of its studies. The experience of localization and identification of the monument by the national historiography has been summarised. The first attempts to preserve and protect the cultural heritage object in the second half of the 1920s have been revealed. Initial scholarly projects of architectural reconstruction of the mosque developed by O.-N. A. Akchokrakly, U. A. Bodaninskii, B. N. Zasypkin, and N. I. Repnikov have been analyzed. The experience of archaeological exploration of the monument (1928-1929, by the State Palace Museum of the Turkic-Tatar Culture in Bakhchisarai Expedition; 1956-1959, by the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR expedition) has been systematized.