Archaeology of Russia explained

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
	1825	1884
	1843	1911
	1843	1923
	1844	1925
	1845	1928
	1848	1918
	1858	1931
	1860	1945
	1870	1928
	1870	1952
	1885	1969
	1898	1972
	1899	1970
	1902	1978
	1907	1970
	1908	1981
	1908	1990
	1908	2001
Leo Klejn	1927
Vladimir Masson	1929	2010
	1929
	1929
	1929
Yelena Kuzmina	1931
	1933	2006
	1935
	1937	2008
Pavel Dolukhanov	1937	2009
	1937	2012
	1943	2003
Natalia Polosmak	1956

Sites

See also: Kurgan and Eurasian nomads. major archaeological cultures and sites in Russia

- Kermek
- Bogatyri/Sinyaya Balka
- Palaeolithic site Kostyonki
- Sungir
- Yana RHS
- 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).