Alexey Okladnikov

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Alexey Pavlovich Okladnikov (Russian: Алексе́й Па́влович Окла́дников) (1908 – 1981), was an archaeologist, historian, and ethnographer, member of the USSR Academy of Sciences since 1968, a Hero of Socialist Labor (1978). He was an expert in the Ancient Cultures of Siberia and the Pacific Basin.

In 1938-1961 Alexey Okladnikov worked in the Leningrad division of the Archeology Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

Since 1961 Head of the Division of Human Research of the Economics Institute, Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

Since 1966 Director of the Institute of History, Philology and Philosophy, Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

Since 1962, Professor and Head, Department of History, of Novosibirsk State University.

His works include research on ancient history of Siberia, Far East, Mongolia, and Middle East. He identified numerous cultures of the Paleolithic, Neolithic, Bronze, and Iron Ages in Siberia and the Far East.

A. P. Okladnikov taught field studies in Siberia, the Far East, Central Asia and Mongolia.

He excavated and studied remnants of Neanderthal culture in Teshik-Tash in Uzbekistan, Paleolithic remnants in Priamurye Mongolia, as well as petroglyphs on the banks of the Lena River and the Angara River

In 1945 A. P. Okladnikov examined the remains of a Russian polar expedition base left in 1917 in the Faddey Islands, in the north-east coast of Taimyr peninsula, where he also made other discoveries. He is the author of the Summary on the History of Ancient Society and the Ancient Culture of Paleolitic and Neolithic Art, the History of Siberia, the Far East and the Far North.

The museum of Khabarovsk is named "Okladnikov Museum" in his honour.