- Boris Grakov
Boris Nikolaevich Grakov ( _ru. Борис Николаевич Граков) (OldStyleDate|December 13|1899|December 1 in Onega —
September 14 1970 inMoscow ) was a Soviet Russianarchaeologist , who specialized inScythian andSarmatian archeology,classical philology and ancientepigraphy . [http://test.infor.ru/pers/1230/ Biography] at the Institute of Archaeology of theRussian Academy of Sciences ]Grakov graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of the
Moscow State University in 1922. He became theDoctor of Science in history in 1939 and was a professor of the university since then.Great Soviet Encyclopedia , 3rd edition, entry on "Boris Grakov", available online [http://slovari.yandex.ru/art.xml?art=bse/00020/18400.htm here] ] Since 1925 he performedexcavation s nearVolga andUral mountains and since 1937 in theUkraine . Grakov systematized the huge amount of information on ceramic stamps of theAncient Greece and created the full catalog of such stamps from the NorthernBlack Sea region. In 1938-41 and 1944-52 he excavatedKamenskoe Gorodishche nearNikopol , a large center of theBronze Age andIron Age culture ofScythians . He worked out issues of theScythia nethnic geography and on social structure and industries of Scythians andSarmatians . He pointed out main milestones of the 6th to 4th century BC Sarmatian culture in Volga and Ural regions. In particular, between 1945 and 1947 he proposed the four-phase periodization scheme for history and culture of Sarmatian tribes in those regions.Grakov was awarded the
Order of the Red Banner of Labour and various medals.References
External links
* [http://www.fridmanbooks.netfirms.com/author_ancient/Grakov/grakov.htm A short biography and a list of publications]
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