his overview presents the most authoritative publications, theories and relections ² of contemporary philosophers, culturologists ³ and sociologists working on the study of cultural exclusion zones. here is a short introduction module, in which we have endeav-oured to collate and highlight on the principal themes, terms, concepts and technical vocabulary developed to describe the speciic phenomena of cultural exclusion zones. It is not intended as an exhaustive review of all aspects of the large agglomeration of themes related to Cultural Exclusion studies, but focuses in particular on materials from the international “Mechanisms of Formation Zones of Cultural Exclusion and Frontier Areas” conferences (St. Petersburg, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017), some of which have also been selected for this edition of Rivista di Estetica. In this introduction we will present a selection of trends and individuals relating to the Russian and international interdisciplinary research project directed by the Centre for Cultural Exclusion and Frontier Zones of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the St. Petersburg State University as institutions, and by Sergey Troitskiy as theorist and visionary.