title: The mountain guardians of the herds: everyday life of the Crimean Tatar shepherds of Chatyr-Dag in the 19th – early 20th centuries (1)
abstract: The various features of life and everyday life of the Crimean Tatar shepherds thanks to the notes and memoirs of travellers, local historians and eyewitnesses, who visited Chatyr-Dag in the 19th – early 20th centuries, were identified and comprehensively investigated in the article. The Chatyr-Dag’s role as the important centre of shepherds culture in the Crimea was considered. Based on written sources of personal origin, the main pedestrian routes of ascent to the plateau of the above-mentioned
journal: Crimean Historical Review