Historical Data about Ancient Yerevan in a Scientific Work of the Russian Empire (19th Century)

The first edition (1881) of “Collection of the Materials to Describe Places and Races of the Caucasus” (Sbornik materialov dliya opisanya mestnostey i plemen Kavkaza) started publication of the results of the research of the Caucasus region with an article dedicated to Yerevan. According to it, the references about the Armenian city of Yerevan date back to the 7th century, while Turkic and Persian peoples appeared in the city only in the 15th century. The article was written by Stepan Pavlovich Zelinski, a teacher of preparatory classes in the Russian gymnasium of Yerevan.