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<article xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">kaspy</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">THE CASPIAN REGION: politics, economics, culture</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="electronic" /><issn publication-format="print">1818-510X</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="ru">Астраханский государственный университет им. В. Н. Татищева</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">1325</article-id><title-group xml:lang="ru"><article-title>Persian components in the lower Volga frontier: past and present</article-title></title-group><title-group xml:lang="en"><article-title>Persian components in the lower Volga frontier: past and present</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Kulakov</surname><given-names>V.O.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Kulakov</surname><given-names>V.O.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>jahondor@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2273" /></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff2273"><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Astrakhan State University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Astrakhan State University</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub"><year>2015</year></pub-date><issue>4</issue><fpage>14</fpage><lpage>19</lpage><history /><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2015/issue/4/article/1325">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2015/issue/4/article/1325</self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/4(45)/14-19.pdf" content-type="pdf">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/4(45)/14-19.pdf</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>In the Volga Delta Great Eurasian Steppe during the meeting with the great river from ancient times spawned numerous intensive contacts of peoples to geopolitical, geo-economic and ethno-religious communication lines. Lower Volga -- a unique concentration of natural, economic social and other communications in multidimensional space of Eurasia. From the moment, when Russian State was recognized this uniqueness of the region, it gradually turns into territory of frontier of Russia, where produced new forms of cross-cultural interaction of different ethnic groups. One of them for the past several centuries are Persians, for a long time held in their own hands the threads of the Caspian and the transit trade between North and South. They left an imprint on the cross-cultural environment of the Lower Volga region and continue to play an important role in it, and at the present stage.</p></abstract><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>In the Volga Delta Great Eurasian Steppe during the meeting with the great river from ancient times spawned numerous intensive contacts of peoples to geopolitical, geo-economic and ethno-religious communication lines. Lower Volga -- a unique concentration of natural, economic social and other communications in multidimensional space of Eurasia. From the moment, when Russian State was recognized this uniqueness of the region, it gradually turns into territory of frontier of Russia, where produced new forms of cross-cultural interaction of different ethnic groups. One of them for the past several centuries are Persians, for a long time held in their own hands the threads of the Caspian and the transit trade between North and South. They left an imprint on the cross-cultural environment of the Lower Volga region and continue to play an important role in it, and at the present stage.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>фронтир</kwd><kwd>Нижняя Волга</kwd><kwd>межкультурные коммуникации</kwd><kwd>персы</kwd><kwd>взаимовосприятие</kwd><kwd>торговля</kwd><kwd>культурный пласт</kwd><kwd>frontier</kwd><kwd>Lower Volga</kwd><kwd>intercultural Communications</kwd><kwd>Persians</kwd><kwd>mutual acceptance</kwd><kwd>trade</kwd><kwd>cultural stratum</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>фронтир</kwd><kwd>Нижняя Волга</kwd><kwd>межкультурные коммуникации</kwd><kwd>персы</kwd><kwd>взаимовосприятие</kwd><kwd>торговля</kwd><kwd>культурный пласт</kwd><kwd>frontier</kwd><kwd>Lower Volga</kwd><kwd>intercultural Communications</kwd><kwd>Persians</kwd><kwd>mutual acceptance</kwd><kwd>trade</kwd><kwd>cultural stratum</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group xml:lang="ru"><funding-statement /></funding-group><funding-group xml:lang="en"><funding-statement /></funding-group></article-meta></front><body /><back><ref-list /></back></article>