Abstract
The article is dedicated to the results of 2017 season excavations of Derbent settlement which existed before construction of the Derbent defensive complex at the end of 560-s. This settlement was gradually left after the construction of a new city given the new name Derbent (Darband). The cultural layers and the construction remains (rooms 6, 7, 8, 9) of the 5-th – 6-th centuries AD, the medieval Muslim burials which have been dug in the layer of the settlement were open in the southern sector of the excavation area XXV.
 The revealed complex of inhabited and economic constructions including 9 rooms is dated the 5th century AD on the basis of chronological indicators (bronze belt buckles, fibula) and other archeological finds (including, Sasanian pottery). Authors consider that this complex has stopped existence during the military-political events of the middle of the 5th century or of the beginning of the 6th century, namely in the period of an anti-Sasanian revolt of 450-451 or Iran-Savir war of 503-508 AD.
 The materials obtained during excavations shed new light on issues of historical topography and layout, stratigraphy and chronology, architecture and construction, economic activity, culture and life of the inhabitants of the Derbent settlement which is identified with the city-fortress of Chor/Chol known for ancient Armenian, Georgian, Syrian, Early Byzantine and Arab authors and which was the important administrative, military and religious center of East Caucasus. The received materials characterize culture.
Highlights
The article presents the results of the excavation of the Derbent settlement, which had started in 2012 and conducted in 2017 by the Derbent Archaeological Expedition
The settlement preceded the construction of the Derbent defense complex in the end of 560s and was gradually abandoned after the foundation of a new city named Derbent (Darband)
An open assemblage of residential and economic structures, which contain 8 rooms, dates 5th century AD according to chronological indicators and other archeological finds
Summary
The work, carried out in the southern sector of the XXV dig, revealed cultural stratification, building (rooms 6, 7, 8, 9) and household remains dated 5th-6th centuries; medieval Muslim burials, sunk into the cultural layer of the settlement. При этом все помещения были вскрыты частично – не выявлены их западные стены, создающие замкнутое пространство (в этой части расположены два ряда сосен, что затрудняет проведение раскопок). Что стена 4 – общая для всех помещений, кроме помещения 8
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