"COSSACKS RESEARCH" 2020: IN CHINA ON THE BASIS OF THE ANHUI NORMAL UNIVERSITY HELD AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

The article reports on the international scientific conference "Cossack Studies" 2020 that took place on 12.12.2020. The conference was held in Wuhu (China) at the Anhui Pedagogical University. The conference was organized by the Volga-Dnepr Regional Research Center under the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China and the Institute of Foreign Languages of Anhui Pedagogical University. The conference was attended by over 60 specialists in Cossacks studies and experts from China, Russia and Ukraine. The conference was held in a mixed format - offline and online. At the conference, leading scientists made detailed reports and discussed a number of important theoretical and practical problems of studying the history and culture of the Cossacks and the phenomenon of the Cossacks. The conference was timed to coincide with the 450th anniversary of the Don Cossacks.