Vestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philologyVestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philology2542-04452712-8946Samara National Research University421610.18287/2542-0445-2016-22-1-244-248UnknownMYTHS OF SOVIET SCIENCE ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF EAST SLAVIC WRITING (ANALYSIS AND CRITICISM)KarpenkoL. B.morenov.sv@ssau.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097KarpenkoG. Yu.morenov.sv@ssau.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097Samara National Research University010120162212442483003201730032017Copyright © 2016, Karpenko L.B., Karpenko G.Y.2016<p>The article deals with the emergence of writing in the EastSlavs. It offers an analysis of the basic scientific concepts of theSoviet era of the early East Slavic written language and dependenceon them of some modern myths on this topic.</p>Soviet science, origin of East Slavic written language, writing alphabet before Cyril, the Glagolitic alphabet.советская наука, происхождение восточнославянской письменности, докирилловская письменность, глаголица[1. Gippius A.A. Berestianye gramoty i nachalo drevnerusskoi pis’mennosti [Вirchbark letters and the beginning of the old Russian literature]. Retrieved from: http://postnauka.ru/video/52694 [in Russian].][2. Likhachev D.S. Neskol’ko zamechanii o vozniknovenii russkoi pis’mennosti [Some remarks about the emergence of Russian writing] in Likhachev D.S. Vozniknovenie russkoi literatury [The][emergence of Russian literature]. L.: Izd-vo AN SSSR, 1952 [in Russian].][3. Istrin V.A. Razvitie pis’ma [The development of writing]. M.: Izd-vo AN SSSR, 1961 [in Russian].][4. Granstrem E.E. O proiskhozhdenii glagolicheskoi azbuki [On the origin of the Glagolitic alphabet]. TODRL, 1955, Vol. 11 [in Russian].][5. Ilchev P. Glagolitsa [The Glagolitic alphabet] in Kirilo-Metodievska entsiklopediia [Kirilo-Metodievska encyclopedia]. Sofia: Izd-vo na BAN, Vol. 1 [in Russian].][6. Karpenko L.B. Glagolitsa sv. Kirilla: K istokam slavianskoi dukhovnosti [The Glagolitic alphabet of St. Cyril: To the origins of Slavic spirituality] in Gosudarstvo, religiia, tserkov’ v Rossii i za rubezhom [State, religion, church in Russia and abroad]. M.: Izd-vo RAGS, 2009, pp. 16–39 [in Russian].]