Yerevan: VMV-Print Publ., 2014, 528 p. A monographic study of the orientalist, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Iranian Studies at Yerevan State University Samvel Asaturovich Markaryan is devoted to the history of a Viking campaign to the East led by Ingvar the Traveler. The author's previous monograph was written on the topic "Seljuks in Iran in the XI century" (Markaryan, 1991). What could have prompted an Oriental historian to undertake a study of such an unusual subject for Oriental science as the Viking campaigns in the Caucasus The reasons for the appearance of this research should be sought in the process of globalization and informatization, when "the formation of new value orientations in society not only affects the initial assumptions of the historian and the formulation of scientific problems, but also largely determines the potential results of his cognitive and creative activities" [Repina, 2011, p. 11]. In these conditions, research on migration issues "or the mobilising role of ethnic identity" takes the first place in terms of relevance [Repina, 2011, p. 10]. It is probably the" globalization of history "that editor G. Asatryan means when he says in the preface to S. A. Markaryan's monograph that" there is a need to unite the efforts of Scandinavian historians and linguists-Orientalists, primarily Caucasian and Armenian scholars, for a more thorough study of the texts of the Armenian chronicles of Stepanos Orbelian, Movses Kalankatuatsi and the Georgian Kartlis Tskhoverba"(p. 3). page 221 The monograph consists of two chapters. The first chapter is called "Historical review of the military and political situation in the regions of Ancient Russia, Byzantium, Armenia and Georgia in the first half of the XI century" and consists of twelve paragraphs, each of which is essentially a separate scientific work. Most of these works were published in various periodicals, including the magazine Vostok, for the period f ... Read more