Archaeology of Russia

Russian archaeology begins in the Russian Empire in the 1850s and becomes Soviet archaeology in the early 20th century. The journal Sovetskaya arkheologiya is published from 1957.

Archaeologists

Name Born Died Specialization Achievements Aleksey Uvarov 1825 1884 Dmitry Samokvasov 1843 1911 Dmitry Nikolayevich Anuchin 1843 1923 Nikodim Kondakov 1844 1925 Fyodor Uspensky 1845 1928 Nikolay Veselovsky 1848 1918 Alexandr Spitsyn 1858 1931 Vasilij Gorodtsov 1860 1945 Boris Farmakovsky 1870 1928 Michael Rostovtzeff 1870 1952 Sergei Rudenko 1885 1969 Mikhail Artamonov 1898 1972 Boris Grakov 1899 1970 Artemiy Artsikhovsky 1902 1978 Mikhail Gerasimov 1907 1970 Alexey Okladnikov 1908 1981 Boris Piotrovsky 1908 1990 Boris Rybakov 1908 2001 Leo Klejn 1927 Vladimir Masson 1929 2010 Viktor Sarianidi 1929 Valentin Yanin 1929 Anatoly Kirpichnikov 1929 Yelena Kuzmina 1931 Boris Marshak 1933 2006 Evgeny Chernykh 1935 Mark Shchukin 1937 2008 Pavel Dolukhanov 1937 2009 Dmitry Machinsky 1937 2012 Gleb Lebedev 1943 2003 Natalia Polosmak 1956

Sites

major archaeological cultures and sites in Russia Kermek (:ru:Кермек (стоянка)) Bogatyri/Sinyaya Balka (:ru:Богатыри/Синяя балка) Palaeolithic site Kostyonki Sungir Yana RHS (:ru:Янская стоянка) Afontova Gora Mal'ta–Buret' culture (Upper Paleolithic) Khvalynsk culture (Eneolithic) Fatyanovo–Balanovo culture (Chalcolithic) Novotitorovka culture (Early Bronze Age) Maykop culture (Early Bronze Age) Maykop kurgan Yamna culture Afanasevo culture (Early Bronze Age) Abashevo culture (Bronze Age) Andronovo culture (Middle to Late Bronze Age) Arkaim Sintashta Srubna culture (Late Bronze to Iron Age) Tanais (Late Bronze to Iron Age) Pazyryk culture (Iron Age) Tmutarakan Staraya Ladoga (Viking Age) Rurikovo Gorodische Gnyozdovo Sarkel (9th century)

See also History of archaeology History of Russia History of Central Asia Scythia Kurgan hypothesis List of Russian historians

Literature B. Trigger, A History of Archaeological Thought, McGill University, Montréal, pp. 327ff. Mikhail Miller, Archaeology in the U.S.S.R, New York (1956).