BELGRAD TREATY OF 1739 AND GENESIS OF THE CAUCASIAN FRONTIER
The author of the article analyzes political and diplomatic oppositions of the Russian and Ottoman empires during the struggle for hegemony in the Northeast Black Sea Coast in the context of system of treaties and conventions which were concluded at the end of the war between Russia and Ottoman Turks in 1735 - 1739 and regulated division of territories in the zone of the border of Russia with Ottoman Empire and the Crimea.