Archaeology of Russia

"Russian archaeology" redirects here. For the academic journal, see Rossiyskaya arkheologiya.

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

See also: List of Russian 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

Excavation of Hermonassa (Tmutarakan), September 2008

Further information: Kurgan and Eurasian nomads

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)

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).

See also

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