The Domed Building at the Territory of Sudak Fortress (1920s to the Early Twenty-First Century)
This paper has accumulated, systematized, and generalized the experience of researches on the mediaeval domed building, a monument of Muslim architecture of south-eastern Crimea, located on the territory of the Genoese fortress in Sudak, from the 1920s to the early twenty-first century. The main stages of the research of this cultural heritage property have been determined, and abundant experience of the making of the architectural history of the monument and analyzing of its architectonics in Russian historiography has been regularised. Various hypotheses, ideas and assumptions that often contradict each other, based both on scientific facts and unreasonable conjectures, which appeared at the present stage of the scholarly researches on the building, have been considered. It has been emphasized that the academic discussion about the time of erection and the initial purpose of the structure is currently far from constructive resolution.