June 19-21, 2019 the members of the Center of History and Cultural Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences took part in the XXX International Congress on Historiography and Source Studies of Asia and Africa: On the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of Academician Vasily V. Barthold (1869-1930). Within the framework of the conference presentations were made by Senior Research Fellow, Head of Centre for History and Cultural Anthropology Dr. Valentina V. Gribanova; Research Fellow, Dr. Nadezhda E. Khokholkova; Senior Research Fellow, D.Sc. Irina G. Tatarovskaya; Research Fellow, Dr.