The paper was executed within the assignment from Russian Federation Ministry of Education and Science № 2014/389 (research work' lot № 1799)
Journal: CyberLeninK (CyberLeninka)
Year: 2014

The paper examined the early stages of the crisis on the Cimmerian Bosporus in the III century A.D. The study considered events with regard to interrelation of all the crisis phenomena. The author came to a conclusion that precisely struggle between various groups of ruling elite that served for the main catalyst for the onset of the period of destabilizing position on the Cimmerian Bosporus. The author noted that the mentioned statements about the current difficulties on the Lower Danube should