I have been studying Islamic Numismatics since 2002. I am collecting Armenian coins as well as those Islamic ones that were struck in the territory of historical Armenia.
Together with my colleagues I am also involved into several projects dealing with different topics of Medieval Numismatics that are implemented in the frames of the Zeno.ru – Oriental Coins Database –
- "Armenian Numismatics" (with Levon Vrtanesyan, USA),
- "Late Northern and Southern Caucasus" (with Irakli Paghava, Georgia),
- "Eldigüzids".
Apart from the fields of my main scientific scope of research, I am also interested in the following topics:
- Coinage of Khānates of Southern Caucasus – Ganja, Qarābāgh, Īrevān and Nakhichevān;
- Coinage of atābeks and mamluks of pre-Eldigüzid and Eldigüzid times in Southern Caucasus and Armenia;
- Post-Rubenian coinage in Armenian Kingdome of Cilicia and possibly in Armenia Maritima (Crimea);
- Timur's coinage and coins in the name of Tīmūr and Shāhrukh in the Armenia.
- Seals of Armenians in the Medieval Byzantine.
I am also interested in the historical toponyms of Armenia. This encouraged me to start with a preparation of a comprehensive (where it possible) corpus of Arabic and Persian variants of toponyms relating to Armenia.
I am married and live in Moscow. My wife and me are fond of traveling and outdoors.
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