This article presents a general overview and highlights some specific features of
the birchbark texts that are included in the twelfth volume of the series Novgorodskie gramoty
na bereste. This volume offers full critical editions of all texts found in Novgorod and Staraja
Russa between 2001 and 2014. My chief goal is to scrutinize systematically the wealth of new
information and to show the recent dynamic shifts in the research field. Special attention is
paid to the reconstruction and analysis of two large social networks which can be established
on the basis of the new data.

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• Comments on birchbark documents found in the twenty-first century