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 Arkheologiia is published from 1957.

Archaeologists

• 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)
• Vasilij Gorodtsov (1860–1945)
• Boris Farmakovsky (1870–1928)
• Michael Rostovtzeff (1870–1952)
• Sergei Rudenko (1885–1969)
• Mikhail Artamonov (1898–1972)
• Boris Grakov (1899–1970)
• Vasily Abaev (1900–2001)
• Artemiy Artsikhovsky (1902–1978)
• Mikhail Gerasimov (1907–1970)
• Alexey Okladnikov (1908–1981)
• Boris Piotrovsky (1908–1990)
• Boris Rybakov (1908–2001)
• Boris Marshak (1933–2006)

living

• Viktor Sarianidi (b. 1929)
• Valentin Yanin (b. 1929)
• Dmitry Machinsky (b. 1937)
• Natalia Polosmak

Sites

major archaeological cultures and sites in Russia

• Khvalynsk culture (Eneolithic)
• Novotitorovka culture (Early Bronze Age)
• Maykop culture (Early Bronze Age)
  • Maykop kurgan
• Afanasevo culture (Early Bronze Age)
• Abashevo culture (Bronze Age)
• Andronovo culture (Middle to Late Bronze Age)
  • Arkaim
  • Sintashta
• Tanais (Late Bronze to Iron Age)
• Pazyryk culture (Iron Age)
• Tmutarakan
• Staraya Ladoga (Viking Age)
• Sarkel (9th century)

Literature

• G. 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