Gennadii Borisovich Zdanovich (; 4 October 1938 – 19 November 2020) was a Russian archaeologist based at the historical site of Arkaim, Chelyabinsk, Russia.
Zdanovich led the excavation campaign at Arkaim in the Southern Urals.Zdanovich, G. (1999) "Arkaim Archaeological park: an cultural-ecological reserve in Russia", in: Panel-Philippe, G.; Stone-Peter, G.(eds) The Constructed Past: Experimental Archeology, Education and the Public, Routledge; Chapter 20, pp. 283–291
In the archaeology of the Sintashta culture, he introduced the term "the Country of Towns".Andrey Bersenev, Andrey Epimakhov and Dmitry Zdanovich, SINTASHTA BOW OF THE BRONZE AGE OF THE SOUTH TRANS-URALS, RUSSIA, in: "Bronze Age Warfare: Manufacture and Use of Weaponry", 2011, He was a proponent of an approach which seeks to unify archaeological and ecological approaches to the environment.
Zdanovich died on 19 November 2020.
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