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Lecture by Leonid Andreevich Belyaev, Head of the Department of Archaeology of Moscow Rus', Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The name "Jericho" evokes strong emotions. The walls of the biblical city are collapsing. King Herod dies in the luxury of his palaces. Jesus Christ and his disciples walk through the oasis to Jerusalem. Pilgrims from all over the world wander to the Jordan. Jericho is described by travelers. After all, Jericho is not one city. It is a huge archaeological agglomeration filling a large oasis, significant for the culture of the entire world. Renowned archaeologists in the 20th century discovered dozens of monuments here. Russia's place in the oasis landscape is modest, but memorable and valuable. Hermits and artists lived here, writers came here. In the 19th century, Archimandrite Antonin (Kapustin), the first European, acquired two plots of land in the oasis. Excavations and construction began on them. Today, one site is occupied by the courtyard of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission, and the other by the Museum and Park Complex of the Russian Federation. Since 2010, an expedition from the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences has been conducting research here, making the open ceremonial buildings and industrial structures of the Byzantine and Umayyad periods a property of science. A museum has been created on the basis of this long-term scientific work. All this, as well as the prospects, is the subject of the proposed lecture.