From Chernigov to Smolensk. Military history

In the work of Professor Bryansk State University. Academician I.G. Petrovsky, Doctor of Historical Sciences E.A. Based on the analysis of a wide range of archaeological and written sources, Shinakov is considered the history of the weapons and military culture of one of the most “restless” regions of Russia, which has always been in the borderlands of various ethnocultural and state range and even now remaining at the junction of three countries at once. The Russian part of this large historical region is now occupied by the Bryansk and partially - Smolensk and Kaluga regions, Ukrainian - Chernihiv and Sumy, Belorussian - Gomel and Mogilev regions. A peculiar axis of this region from Smolensk region to Chernihiv region is the Desna River with its tributaries, so it is called the Land. The chronological framework of the work is from antiquity, the moment of the origin of weapons and military conflicts, until the end of the 17th century, when the drawing actually ceased to be a restless military borderland.
The publication is intended not only for specialists and students, but also by a wide range of readers interested in the military history of the Fatherland and individual regions