FROM THE HISTORY OF EARLY MEDIEVAL ROCKCUT TOMBS RESEARCH IN THE WATERSHEDS OF THE RIVERS KUBAN, MALKA AND BAKSAN (For the 130 anniversary of the beginning of the mentioned category of the monuments research in the region)
The brief but comprehensive, containing the little known details characteristics of the process of the rock-cut tombs belonging to the epoch of the early middle ages research in the central region of the North Caucasus (the Caucasian Mineral Springs and the adjoining territories) is presented in the article, starting from the year of 1885 till the end of 2014. The conclusion that in the fi eld of the given special kind of the burial tombs research in the region not all the problems have been solved but the assignments remain actual even 130 years after they were put forward comes from the contents of the research work.