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Mazhitov Niyaz Abdulkhakovich (1933-2015) - Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Soviet and Bashkurt archaeologist, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Vice President of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus.

In 1956 he graduated from Perm State University. In 1963 he defended his Ph.D., in 1988 - a doctoral dissertation in the specialty "Archaeology".

He worked as a junior (since 1956), senior (since 1964) researcher, head of the sector of archeology and ethnography (since 1968) of the Institute of History, Language and Literature of the Baltic Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

The main directions of scientific research are connected with the development of the problems of the Iron Age and the Middle Ages of the Southern Urals. As an archaeologist, he discovered and explored massive archaeological sites of the Middle Ages in the Southern Urals. He contributed to the development of the classification, periodization of the Iron Age monuments of the Ural-Volga region, the ethno-cultural and socio-economic history of the peoples of the Eurasian steppe, including the Bashkirs. He put forward and defended the hypothesis of the autochthonous origin and development of the Bashkirs, linking the emergence of the Kushnarenkovskaya, Karayakupovskaya, Turbasli, Bakhmutinskaya and other archaeological cultures with the formation of the ancient Bashkir ethnos.

G.A. Kushaev - (1925-1992) participant of the Second World War, candidate of historical sciences, associate professor. When he worked in the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR, he substantiated the archaeological culture of the Usuns. From 1968 he worked in Western Kazakhstan. He is the author of many scientific publications about the Savromat and Sarmatian antiquities, about archaeological objects of the Bronze Age. From 1969 to 1992 he headed the archaeological expeditions of the Ural Pedagogical Institute named after V.I. A.S. Pushkin.

 

Janson H.V. - (1913-1982) Professor at New York University. Author of books on the history of art, incl. "Fundamentals of Art History". Published in Russian in 1996 in St. Petersburg. Appreciated by readers for a special look at art through the eyes of an art critic. Contains a lot of information about the person of the Age of Stone.

 

Klindt-Jensen O. - Danish archaeologist, historian and art critic is one of the brightest and most significant Danish researchers of the second half of the XX century. Professor of Prehistoric History at the University of Aarhus (Denmark) from 1961 to 1980. The main scientific topic is the ancient history of Denmark.

Seibert V.F. - (born in 1947) Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of Archeology, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, researcher of the Atbasar and Botay cultures. He proved that wild horse hunters were the first to domesticate them during the Neolithic and Eneolithic.

Bichurin N.Ya. - Father Iakinf (1977-1853) missionary of the Christian Orthodox religion in Qing China. A native of the Kazan province. He took a great interest in Sinology, studied many dynastic chronicles in Chinese. He wrote the work "Collection of information about the peoples who lived in ancient times in Central Asia" 1851, reprinted in 1950. Information from this scientific work is still the basis of the history of ancient Kazakhstan.

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