B.S. Zhukov in the history of Russian archaeology: to the scientist’s anniversary

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B.S. Zhukov is one of the key figures in Russian archaeology of the 1920s. Palaeoethnological field of research at Moscow University was established by D.N. Anuchin who suggested his famous triad, a synthesis of prehistoric archaeology, anthropology and ethnography. In the early 1920s, Zhukov, his disciple, went further and put the teacher’s ideas into practice by proposing a research programme and building a team of young researchers – archaeologists, anthropologists, ethnologists, and experts in other areas. The leader of the palaeoethnological school, B.S. Zhukov did not only absorbed Anuchin’s idea of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of humans in their past and present development, but also implemented it in the course of large-scale complex expeditions and in-depth research. Zhukov’s school as a special research direction was developing for a short period in the mid and second half of the 1920s. However, it raised a generation of archaeologists, anthropologists and ethnologists, who made an invaluable contribution to the development of Russian and world science.

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Sergey V. Kuzminykh

Institute of Archaeology RAS

Author for correspondence.
Email: kuzminykhsv@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow

Olga A. Lopatina

Institute of Archaeology RAS

Email: lopatina.olga@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Moscow

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2. Fig. 1. Boris Sergeevich Zhukov

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3. Fig. 2. Excavations at the Chortovo fortified settlement: boats of the Vetluga expedition. O.N. Bader is at the left astern. 1925

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4. Fig. 3. Participants of the International archaeological congress (Berlin, 1929). Seated (left to right): Axel Persson (Uppsala), Henri Begouën (Toulouse), José Ramon Melida y Alinari (Madrid), unknown; standing (left to right): Andreas Alföldi (Debrecen), Emil Panaitescu (Bucharest), Giuseppe Lugli (Rome), unknown, Hugo Obermeier (Madrid), Eleazar Lipa Sukenik (Jerusalem), Boris Zhukov (Moscow). B.S. Zhukov’s daughter left the inscription on the photo: “Father. Far right at the celebration in Berlin Archaeological Institute”. Photo from the newspaper Zeitbilder 28 April 1929

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5. Fig. 4. Excavations of the Peremchalka burial ground. In the top photo, B.S. Zhukov is standing on the right, on the bottom photo, he sitting in the background. Anthropological complex expedition, 1926

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6. Fig. 5. In the expedition camp on the Kerzhinets River. Left to right, clockwise: O.N. Bader, P.I. Zenkevich, S.P. Tolstov, A.I. Goryunov, B.S. Zhukov, M.G. Levin, T.A. Trofimova, A.E. Alikhova, E.I. Goryunova, standing E.R. Lebedeva. Vetluga expedition, 1926

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7. Fig. 6. On the Vetluga River bank. Left to right – the back: O.N. Bader, B.S. Zhukov, E.I. Goryunova; the front: A.I. Goryunov, E.R. Lebedeva, T.A. Trofimova, S.P. Tolstov, P.I. Zenkevich, M.G. Levin, A.E. Alikhova. Vetluga expedition, 1926

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