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Institute of Archeology- one of the leading archaeological institutions in Russia and the largest archaeological institution in the system of the Russian Academy of Sciences, specializing in the study of ancient and medieval cultures of Eurasia. Through the work of several generations of its employees, the foundations of scientific knowledge about many of the most important phenomena in the history of mankind from the moment of its formation to the beginning of the era of industrialization were laid. The team consists of specialists in various fields of archeology and history, as well as natural sciences.

Institute of Archeology RAS (IA RAS)
Former name	1919-1926 - Moscow section of RAIMK; 1926-1929 - Moscow section of GAIMK; 1932-1937 - Moscow branch of GAIMK; 1937-1945 - Moscow branch of the IIMK of the USSR Academy of Sciences; 1945-1957 – IIMK AS USSR
Founded
Director	acad. RAS N. A. Makarov
PhD	there is
Doctorate	there is
Location	Russia Russia, Moscow
Legal address	Russia, 117292, Moscow, st. Dmitry Ulyanov, 19.
Website	archaeolog.ru

Official name:

Complete (in Russian) - Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Abbreviated (in Russian) - IA RAS
Complete (in English) - Institute of Archeology of Russian Academy of Sciences
Abbreviated (in English) - IA RAS

Story

The Institute traces its lineage to the Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission, which was established in 1859. On April 18, 1919, a decree of the Council of People's Commissars in Petrograd established Russian Academy of the History of Material Culture(RAIMK), the functions of the Archaeological Commission were transferred to RAIMK, and its members became members of RAIMK. In 1926 RAIMK was reorganized into State Academy of the History of Material Culture(GAIMK). The activities of RAIMK-GAIMK unfolded in Petrograd-Leningrad and in Moscow, where the Moscow Section (MOGAIMK) was created. RAIMK - GAIMK was a research institution engaged in the study of material culture in all forms and forms. In 1937, GAIMK was transformed into the Institute of the History of Material Culture (IIMK) as part of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The head institute was located in Leningrad, and its branch, MOIIMK, operated in Moscow. In 1943, the Institute was transferred to Moscow, and its Branch (LOIIMK) remained in Leningrad. By the Decree of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR of September 4, 1957, the IIMK was renamed the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. In 1991, the Institute of Archeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences was renamed the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and a separate one was created on the basis of the Leningrad Branch (LOIA).

In the 1940s–1950s the foundations of the structure of the Institute (a system of sectors) are laid, which, with some modifications, has survived to the present day. The sectors were created according to the chronological and cultural-historical principle: Neolithic and Bronze (originally - the sector of primitive archeology), ancient, Scythian-Sarmatian and Slavic-Russian. A significant scale of field work led to the creation in 1972 of a special sector of new-building and economic contract expeditions, as well as a sector of archaeological codes.

In 1960 - early 1970s. there is a gradual renewal of research topics and methods, the active introduction of the methods of natural sciences into archeology begins, and the importance of statistical-combinatorial methods for systematizing and analyzing large arrays of archaeological data is realized. The creation in 1967 at the Institute of the Laboratory of Natural Science Methods contributed to the development of new scientific areas - dendrochronology, archeozoology, archeobotany, archeoecology, archeometallurgy.

In the 1970s–1980s scientific developments in the field of theory and methodology of archeology received a new impetus. Such concepts and problems as the subject and object of archeology, archaeological culture, typology and classification were discussed, and the development of the historiographic direction of research began. The development of this direction led to the creation in 1985 of the theory and methodology sector.

In the late 1960s The Institute develops field work outside the USSR: including in Mongolia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Afghanistan and Iraq, thus becoming involved in the study of the problems of the formation of the earliest centers of the productive economy and the formation of the most ancient world civilizations.

In the late 1980s - 1990s, in addition to updating and expanding traditional problems, attention was paid to an in-depth study of the archaeological aspects of the development of ancient societies, to the activation of interdisciplinary research using the methods of natural sciences.

Leaders

years	Director
1919-1921	V.V. Bogdanov (Moscow section of RAIMK), prof. (1936)
1921-1922	Yu.V. Gauthier (Moscow section of RAIMK), acad. USSR Academy of Sciences (1939)
1924-1929	D.N. Egorov (Moscow section of RAIMK - GAIMK), corresponding member. USSR Academy of Sciences (1928)
1932-1934	A.V. Mishulin (Moscow branch of IIMK), Dr. of History. Sciences (1943)
1934-1937	A. G. Ioannisyan (Moscow branch of IIMK), Dr. of History. Sciences (1955), acad. Academy of Sciences of the ArmSSR (1960)
1939-1942	S. P. Tolstov (Moscow branch of IIMK), corresponding member. USSR Academy of Sciences (1953)
1943-1946	B. D. Grekov, acad. USSR Academy of Sciences (1935)
1947-1955	A. D. Udaltsov, corresponding member. USSR Academy of Sciences (1939)
1956-1987	B. A. Rybakov, acad. USSR Academy of Sciences (1958)
1987-1991	V.P. Alekseev, acad. USSR Academy of Sciences (1987)
1991-2003	R. M. Munchaev, Corr. RAS (2000)
since 2003	N. A. Makarov, acad. RAS (2011)

Structure

Scientific divisions:

Department of the Stone Age
Department of the Bronze Age
Department of Scythian-Sarmatian archeology
Department of Classical Archeology
- Memorial Cabinet-library named after A. V.D. Blavatsky
Department of Archeology of the Great Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages
Department of Medieval Archeology
Department of Archeology of Muscovite Russia
- Arctic Archeology Group
Department of Theory and Methods
- Group "History of Ceramics"
- Physical Anthropology Group
Department of Archaeological Heritage Conservation
Laboratory of Natural Science Methods in Archeology
Group for the study of archeology of the Caucasus
Paleoart Center
Underwater Archaeological Heritage Center

Field Research Department
Department of Scientific Information and Publications
Archive
Library (department of library and bibliographic services INION RAS)

Publications of the Institute

Events

I (XVII) All-Russian Archaeological Congress (2006, Novosibirsk)
II (XVIII) All-Russian Archaeological Congress (2008,

Institute of Archeology RAS (IA RAS)
Former name	1919-1926 - Moscow section of RAIMK; 1926-1929 - Moscow section of GAIMK; 1932-1937 - Moscow branch of GAIMK; 1937-1945 - Moscow branch of the IIMK of the USSR Academy of Sciences; 1945-1957 – IIMK AS USSR
Founded
Director	acad. RAS N. A. Makarov
PhD	there is
Doctorate	there is
Location	Russia Russia, Moscow
Legal address	Russia, 117292, Moscow, st. Dmitry Ulyanov, 19.
Website	archaeolog.ru

Official name:

Story [ | ]

The Institute traces its lineage to the Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission, which was established in 1859. On April 18, 1919, a decree of the Council of People's Commissars in Petrograd established Russian Academy of the History of Material Culture(RAIMK), the functions of the Archaeological Commission were transferred to RAIMK, and its members became members of RAIMK. In 1926 RAIMK was reorganized into State Academy of the History of Material Culture(GAIMK). The activities of RAIMK-GAIMK unfolded in Petrograd-Leningrad and in Moscow, where the Moscow Section (MOGAIMK) was created. RAIMK - GAIMK was a research institution engaged in the study of material culture in all forms and forms. In 1937, GAIMK was transformed into the Institute of the History of Material Culture (IIMK) as part of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The head institute was located in Leningrad, and its branch of the Institute, MOIIMK, operated in Moscow. In 1943, the Institute was transferred to Moscow, and its Branch (LOIIMK) remained in Leningrad. By the Decree of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR of September 4, 1957, the IIMK was renamed the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. In 1991, the Institute of Archeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences was renamed the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and a separate one was created on the basis of the Leningrad Branch (LOIA).

Leaders [ | ]

years	Director
1919-1921	V.V. Bogdanov (Moscow section of RAIMK), prof. (1936)
1921-1922	Yu.V. Gauthier (Moscow section of RAIMK), acad. USSR Academy of Sciences (1939)
1924-1929	D.N. Egorov (Moscow section of RAIMK - GAIMK), corresponding member. USSR Academy of Sciences (1928)
1932-1934	A.V. Mishulin (Moscow branch of IIMK), Dr. of History. Sciences (1943)
1934-1937	A. G. Ioannisyan (Moscow branch of IIMK), Dr. of History. Sciences (1955), acad. Academy of Sciences of the ArmSSR (1960)
1939-1942	S. P. Tolstov (Moscow branch of IIMK), corresponding member. USSR Academy of Sciences (1953)
1943-1946	B. D. Grekov, acad. USSR Academy of Sciences (1935)
1947-1955	A. D. Udaltsov, corresponding member. USSR Academy of Sciences (1939)
1956-1987	B. A. Rybakov, acad. USSR Academy of Sciences (1958)
1987-1991	V.P. Alekseev, acad. USSR Academy of Sciences (1987)
1991-2003	R. M. Munchaev, Corr. RAS (2000)
since 2003	N. A. Makarov, acad. RAS (2011)

Structure [ | ]

Scientific divisions:

Department of the Stone Age
Department of the Bronze Age
Department of Scythian-Sarmatian archeology
Department of Classical Archeology
- Memorial Cabinet-library named after A. V.D. Blavatsky
Department of Archeology of the Great Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages
Department of Medieval Archeology
Department of Archeology of Muscovite Russia
- Arctic Archeology Group
Department of Theory and Methods
- Group "History of Ceramics"
- Physical Anthropology Group
Department of Archaeological Heritage Conservation
Laboratory of Natural Science Methods in Archeology
Group for the study of archeology of the Caucasus
Paleoart Center
Underwater Archaeological Heritage Center

Field Research Department
Department of Scientific Information and Publications
Archive
Library

Publications of the Institute[ | ]

Events [ | ]

In 2011, the Council of Young Scientists of the IA RAS resumed the tradition of holding youth conferences dedicated to the discussion of topical problems of archaeological research, which existed at the IA RAS until 1990. Conferences I and II, held in 2011 and 2013, turned out to be a popular target platform at the international level . They not only provided young archaeologists with the opportunity to quickly exchange knowledge and experience, but also contributed to the formation of a single scientific and information space on the territory of Russia and other CIS countries.

THE INSTITUTE OF ARCHEOLOGY OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES is a leading scientific center for the study of archeology.

1859 - the Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission was established;
1919 - the functions of the Archaeological Commission were transferred to the newly established Russian Academy of the History of Material Culture (RAIMK);
1926 - RAIMK was reorganized into the State Academy of the History of Material Culture (GAIMK);
1937 - GAIMK joined the USSR Academy of Sciences as the Institute of the History of Material Culture (IIMK);
1943 - the Institute was transferred to Moscow, its Department (LOIIMK) remained in Leningrad;
1957 - IIMK was renamed the Institute of Archeology (IA) of the USSR Academy of Sciences (since 1991 - RAS);
1991 - on the basis of the Leningrad Branch (LOIA) a separate Institute for the History of Material Culture was established.

The Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences is one of the leading archaeological institutions in Russia, specializing in the study of ancient and medieval cultures of Eurasia, material remains of the distant past. Through the work of several generations of its employees, the foundations of scientific knowledge about many of the most important phenomena in the history of mankind from the moment of its formation to the beginning of the era of industrialization were laid. Within the walls of the Institute, outstanding research was carried out, which rightfully secured its place as one of the leaders in the development of fundamental problems of archeology.

The history of the Institute of Archeology is usually counted from April 19, 1919, when the Russian Academy of the History of Material Culture (RAIMK) was established in Petrograd by a decree of the Council of People's Commissars. But it has deeper roots: after all, RAIMK was created on the basis of the abolished Imperial Archaeological Commission - the central archaeological organization of pre-revolutionary Russia, which was in charge of issuing open sheets for excavations and collecting scientific reports on their results. In 1926, RAIMK was reorganized into the State Academy of the History of Material Culture, which in 1937 became part of the USSR Academy of Sciences as the Institute of the History of Material Culture (IIMK). The institute was located in Leningrad, and a small branch of it, MOIIMK, was created in Moscow. In 1943, the directorate of IIMK was transferred from Leningrad to Moscow. On January 9, 1945, the Moscow part of the IIMK was made the main archaeological institution of the Academy by the decision of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Leningrad part was made its branch. By the Decree of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR of September 4, 1957, the IIMK was renamed the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. In 1991, the Leningrad Branch (LOIA) was transformed into an independent Institute of the History of Material Culture. Thus, the Institute of Archeology, as well as the IIMK RAS, having gone through a chain of transformations, remain the heirs of the oldest archaeological organization established in Russia in 1859 to study and preserve ancient monuments.

Today the Institute of Archeology is the largest archaeological institution of the Russian Academy. It employs about 220 employees, including 6 Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 45 Doctors and 80 Candidates of Sciences. The research team includes highly qualified specialists in various fields of archeology and history, as well as anthropologists, paleobotanists, and paleozoologists.

The Institute of the History of Material Culture, later the Institute of Archeology, was headed by Academician B.D. Grekov (1943-1946), corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.D. Udaltsov (1946-1956), Academician B.A. Rybakov (1956-1987), Academician V.P. Alekseev (1987-1991), corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences R.M. Munchaev (1991-2003). In 2003, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences N.A. Makarov.

The basis of the modern organizational structure of the Institute - a system of departments and sectors formed according to the chronological or cultural-historical principle - was laid in the late 1940s. Developing in the following decades, it was modified and supplemented by new units. At present, the main research divisions of the Institute of Archeology are the departments of the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, Scythian-Sarmatian archeology, classical archeology, Slavic-Russian archeology (with groups of Arctic archeology and archeology of the Great Migration era), theory and methodology (with groups of history ceramics, foreign archeology and physical anthropology), archeological codes and maps, security excavations, the archeology sector of Moscow, the laboratory of natural scientific methods, the group of medieval archeology of the Eurasian steppes. A special place in the structure of the Institute is occupied by the field research department, whose competence includes scientific regulation of field work and control of the professional quality of field research throughout Russia.

Since its inception, the Institute of Archeology has been aimed at conducting scientific research in a wide range of problems and chronology, covering, if possible, the entire diversity of ancient and medieval cultures of Eurasia. His research is focused on the reconstruction of a holistic picture of the past on the basis of material remains, on the formation of the most complete and profound scientific ideas about various aspects of the cultural history of mankind. The scientific program of the Institute fully presents both generalizing works on major problems of archeology, and research focused on individual monuments and objects, developing the traditions of archaeological source study. The research tasks and content of the scientific program changed as scientific knowledge about the antiquities of Russia and neighboring countries developed and accumulated, the methods of archeology improved, the socio-economic situation in the country changed, and the material opportunities for research.

The formation of the Institute in the second half of the 1940-1950s, during the period of post-war patriotic upsurge and growing interest in historical monuments, was accompanied, on the one hand, by the intensification of field research throughout the USSR, and, on the other hand, by the formation of the organizational structure of archaeological institutions, the central link of which was the Institute, designed to coordinate all work in the field of archeology. The most important archaeological publications were transferred to Moscow, such as MIA (Materials and Research on the Archeology of the USSR), KSIIMK (Short Communications of the IIMK) and the yearbook "Soviet Archeology", transformed in 1957 into a quarterly journal. One of the most important tasks of archeology during this period was to obtain scientific data on ancient monuments in various regions of the USSR, many of which were in the full sense of the word "white spots", on various categories of archaeological objects, the true nature of which was unknown. Expeditionary research of the Institute at the Neolithic settlements of the North and the Center of European Russia, monuments of the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age in the North Caucasus, ancient monuments of the Northern Black Sea region, in the largest ancient Russian cities were marked by striking discoveries.

An outstanding event in historical science was the discovery of birch-bark letters in 1951 by the Novgorod expedition of Moscow State University and IIMK RAS. The fundamental works published in these years - "The Craft of Ancient Russia" by B.A. Rybakova (1949), "Ancient History of Southern Siberia" by S.V. Kiseleva (1950), “Periodization of Trypillia settlements” by T.S. Pasek (1949), "Essays on the history of the tribes of the European part of the USSR in the Neolithic era" A.Ya. Bryusov (1952), "Proceedings of the Novgorod Archaeological Expedition" (edited by A.V. Artsikhovsky and B.A. Kolchin) - determined the directions for the development of archaeological science in the USSR for many years to come.

The 1960s became a time of further expansion of field work throughout the USSR, the accumulation of a huge array of primary archaeological materials, including as a result of security excavations in new buildings. The most significant achievements of field archeology of this decade certainly include the discovery of Upper Paleolithic painting in the Kapova Cave in the Urals and a pair of children's burials at the Upper Paleolithic site of Sungir near Vladimir, made by the expedition of O.N. Bader. In the late 1960s. The Institute develops field work outside the USSR, including in Bulgaria, Afghanistan and Iraq, thus becoming involved in the study of the problems of the formation of the earliest centers of the productive economy and the formation of the most ancient world civilizations (works of the Iraqi expedition led by R.M. Munchaev).

The urgent task at that time was the systematization of the accumulated materials, the creation on their basis of generalizing works on archeology of various periods. In the 1960s and early 1970s, the topics and methodology of research were gradually updated, the methods of natural sciences began to be actively introduced into archeology, and the importance of statistical-combinatorial methods for systematizing and analyzing large arrays of archaeological data was realized. The creation in 1967 at the Institute of the Laboratory of Natural Scientific Methods (the first head was B.A. Kolchin) contributed to the development of new scientific areas - dendrochronology, the study of ancient and medieval metallurgy using metallography and spectral analysis data. New opportunities for the systematization and introduction of archaeological materials into scientific circulation were opened by the publication of a series of Codes of Archaeological Sources (CAI), which set the standards for archaeological source studies in the 1960s-1970s.

The largest scientific undertaking of the late 1970s, initiated by Academician B.A. Rybakov, was the preparation of the 20-volume "Archaeology of the USSR" - a fundamental publication that unfolds a general panorama of the historical development of human society on the territory of the USSR from the Paleolithic to the Middle Ages, summing up modern scientific data on the antiquities of various periods and regions. The most authoritative specialists from various archaeological institutions in Russia were involved in the creation of this work, summing up the results of the study of the ancient and medieval cultures of Eurasia in the 20th century. At present, the publication, which since 1993 has received the name "Archaeology", is almost completely completed, 18 volumes have come out of print.

The scientific research program developed at the Institute in the late 1980s by the newly elected director, academician V.P. Alekseev, provided for the renewal and expansion of traditional issues, an in-depth study of the paleoecological aspects of the development of ancient societies, and the intensification of interdisciplinary research using the methods of the natural sciences. Unfortunately, only a small part of these plans was realized.

The crisis years of the 1990s did not become a lost time for the Institute. The main scientific directions were preserved. The reduction in the scale of field work in the first half of the 1990s made it possible to comprehend and publish materials from field projects of previous years. During this period, new scientific directions crystallized at the Institute, such as complex paleoecological studies and bioarchaeological reconstructions, the study of the cultural landscape, and the use of geoinformation systems in archeology. A computer base has been created, which has made it possible to widely introduce modern information technologies into archaeological practice. Prepared and published 26 issues of the Archaeological Map of Russia (AKR) - a scientific reference publication, which is a catalog of monuments found in various administrative regions.

One of the most significant scientific achievements of the Institute in the 1990s was the creation of a modern concept of the ethno-cultural history of the Slavs, a general picture of the Slavic ethnogenesis based on the study of a huge array of archaeological materials, written sources, data from historical linguistics and anthropology. The results of these studies carried out by Academician V.V. Sedov, are set out in the monographs "Slavs in Antiquity" (1994), "Slavs in the Early Middle Ages" (1995), "Old Russian Nationality" (1999), "Slavs: Historical and Archaeological Research" (2002). The most interesting results on human paleoecology and the biological state of human paleopopulations in different historical periods were obtained through interdisciplinary research by a research team led by academician T.I. Alekseeva. A striking example of such work is the collective monograph "Homo sungirensis: Evolutionary and ecological aspects of the study of the Upper Paleolithic man" (editor-in-chief Academician T.I. Alekseeva, N.O. Bader, Institute of Natural History of the Russian Academy of Sciences), which reveals the nature of the adaptation of the Upper Paleolithic man to the conditions of the Ice Age, reconstructing the types of physical activity and diet of the ancient inhabitants of the famous Sungir site.

The fundamental problems of the formation and development of ancient metallurgy, technological innovations of the early metal era, the formation and decline of metallurgical provinces are covered in the works of the staff of the Laboratory of Natural Science Methods, headed by Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences E.N. Chernykh. The dynamics and directions of colonization processes on the northern outskirts of Ancient Russia, the general patterns in the formation of medieval rural settlement in the north of the Russian Plain were studied in the works of N.A. Makarov. Among the significant results of field research in the 1990s is the discovery by the Mesopotamian expedition (headed by Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences R.M. Munchaev) of the ancient cult-administrative complex Tell Khazna 1 in Northern Mesopotamia with monumental temple buildings.

The beginning of the new century was a time of gradual renewal of the problems of the Institute's research, while maintaining the previously established fundamental directions and focusing on a wide geographical and chronological coverage of ancient and medieval cultures. Field surveys have expanded again. In 2007, 37 expeditions and detachments were organized, which launched field work on the territory of 35 constituent entities of the Russian Federation and outside Russia. The Institute conducts field research in the Middle East (on the territory of Syria), in Central Asia (on the territory of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan), in Chukotka, in the Svalbard archipelago. Excavations continue in the North-West of Russia and in the Southern Urals. At the same time, the Center and South of European Russia remain the sphere of special interests of the Institute and the zone of the most intensive field work.

Expeditionary research is being expanded both through grants from Russian scientific foundations and as part of the organization of security research in construction zones. Findings of masterpieces of Paleolithic art at the Zaraisk site, the study of the "royal barrow" of the Sarmatian culture at the Filippovka burial ground in the Orenburg region, the discovery of new monuments of ancient epigraphy and art in Phanagoria, the discovery of a treasure trove of ancient Russian jewelry in Staraya Ryazan, excavations of city estates XIV- XV centuries in the Tainitsky garden of the Moscow Kremlin.

Today, with the accumulation of new materials and the emergence of new methods of analysis and systematization of archaeological data in the arsenal of researchers, conditions have gradually been created for a deeper vision of many historical phenomena, ancient cultures, stages of ancient and medieval history, which involves the creation of a new generation of major generalizing studies. The scientists working at the Institute focused their attention on problems that were previously out of the field of view of archeology or require new coverage, such as the most ancient stages of human settlement in the North Caucasus; dynamics of life and ecological conditions for the existence of Upper Paleolithic settlements on the Russian Plain; centers of rock art in the North-East of Eurasia; the cultural situation of the era of the Great Migration of Peoples in the forest-steppe zone of European Russia; the phenomenon of the ancient Russian village of pre-Mongol times; cultural landscape of medieval Moscow. The basis for new historical and cultural generalizations is often individual field projects, within which vivid material has been obtained that characterizes the culture, economy, and paleoecological aspects of the development of ancient societies.

In recent years, when the total volume of field archaeological work in Russia has been noticeably increasing, the activity of the field research department and the Expert Council established under it, which carries out the examination of reports on field research, is of particular importance. This work is closely coordinated with Rossvyazokhrankultura, which is responsible for the protection of historical and cultural heritage. In 2006, more than 1,400 Open Sheets were issued in Russia and more than 1,000 excavation reports were collected. Brief information about field work throughout Russia from Kaliningrad to Sakhalin is promptly introduced into scientific circulation in the yearbook "Archaeological Discoveries". All excavation reports are sent to the archives of the Institute of Archaeology. This centralized system for the collection and storage of documentation, the formation of which was initiated in the middle of the 19th century by the activities of the Imperial Archaeological Commission, ensures the preservation of complete information about all field work carried out on the territory of our country, and convenient access for researchers to a vast array of archaeological sources.

The Institute of Archeology is making great efforts aimed at preserving the archaeological heritage of Russia, assessing new threats emerging in this area, and developing effective approaches to the protection of monuments. This work is of particular relevance in the current situation, in the context of the expansion of predatory excavations and the intensification of construction, often erasing ancient monuments from the face of the earth. On the Institute's initiative, discussions began on the problem of counteracting unauthorized excavations and illegal trade in antiquities. The specialists of the Institute take part in the development of legal documents regulating the protection of archaeological heritage sites. In recent years, the Institute has organized large security excavations in historical cities, along pipeline and highway construction routes, ensuring the preservation of precious information about ancient monuments. A distinctive feature of these works was the involvement of the most qualified scientists specializing in the study of various chronological groups of antiquities affected by construction projects. The security excavations of the Institute have become the most important channel for the influx of new materials characterizing the culture and history of medieval towns and rural settlements in the Center of European Russia.

In 1969, the Institute was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor in recognition of the Institute's outstanding merits in the development of the domestic humanities. Four of its employees were awarded the Lenin Prize and 13 - the State Prize.

Institute of Archeology RAS (IA RAS)
Former name	1919-1926 - Moscow section of RAIMK; 1926-1929 - Moscow section of GAIMK; 1932-1937 - Moscow branch of GAIMK; 1937-1945 - Moscow branch of the IIMK of the USSR Academy of Sciences; 1945-1957 – IIMK AS USSR
Founded
Director	acad. RAS N. A. Makarov
PhD	there is
Doctorate	there is
Location	Russia Russia, Moscow
Legal address	Russia, 117292, Moscow, st. Dmitry Ulyanov, 19.
Website	archaeolog.ru

Official name:

Complete (in Russian) - Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Abbreviated (in Russian) - IA RAS
Complete (in English) - Institute of Archeology of Russian Academy of Sciences
Abbreviated (in English) - IA RAS

Story

Leaders

years	Director
1919-1921	V.V. Bogdanov (Moscow section of RAIMK), prof. (1936)
1921-1922	Yu.V. Gauthier (Moscow section of RAIMK), acad. USSR Academy of Sciences (1939)
1924-1929	D.N. Egorov (Moscow section of RAIMK - GAIMK), corresponding member. USSR Academy of Sciences (1928)
1932-1934	A.V. Mishulin (Moscow branch of IIMK), Dr. of History. Sciences (1943)
1934-1937	A. G. Ioannisyan (Moscow branch of IIMK), Dr. of History. Sciences (1955), acad. Academy of Sciences of the ArmSSR (1960)
1939-1942	S. P. Tolstov (Moscow branch of IIMK), corresponding member. USSR Academy of Sciences (1953)
1943-1946	B. D. Grekov, acad. USSR Academy of Sciences (1935)
1947-1955	A. D. Udaltsov, corresponding member. USSR Academy of Sciences (1939)
1956-1987	B. A. Rybakov, acad. USSR Academy of Sciences (1958)
1987-1991	V.P. Alekseev, acad. USSR Academy of Sciences (1987)
1991-2003	R. M. Munchaev, Corr. RAS (2000)
since 2003	N. A. Makarov, acad. RAS (2011)

Structure

Scientific divisions:

Department of the Stone Age
Department of the Bronze Age
Department of Scythian-Sarmatian archeology
Department of Classical Archeology
- Memorial Cabinet-library named after A. V.D. Blavatsky
Department of Archeology of the Great Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages
Department of Medieval Archeology
Department of Archeology of Muscovite Russia
- Arctic Archeology Group
Department of Theory and Methods
- Group "History of Ceramics"
- Physical Anthropology Group
Department of Archaeological Heritage Conservation
Laboratory of Natural Science Methods in Archeology
Group for the study of archeology of the Caucasus
Paleoart Center
Underwater Archaeological Heritage Center

Field Research Department
Department of Scientific Information and Publications
Archive
Library (department of library and bibliographic services INION RAS)

Publications of the Institute

Events

I (XVII) All-Russian Archaeological Congress (2006, Novosibirsk)
II (XVIII) All-Russian Archaeological Congress (2008,

The history of the Institute of Archeology is usually counted from April 19, 1919, when the Russian Academy of the History of Material Culture (RAIMK) was established in Petrograd by a decree of the Council of People's Commissars. But it has deeper roots: after all, RAIMK was created on the basis of the abolished Imperial Archaeological Commission - the central archaeological organization of pre-revolutionary Russia, which was in charge of issuing open sheets for excavations and collecting scientific reports on their results. In 1926 RAIMK was reorganized into the State Academy of the History of Material Culture, which in 1937 became part of the USSR Academy of Sciences as the Institute of the History of Material Culture (IIMK). The institute was located in Leningrad, and a small branch of it, MOIIMK, was created in Moscow. In 1943, the directorate of IIMK was transferred from Leningrad to Moscow. On January 9, 1945, the Moscow part of the IIMK was made the main archaeological institution of the Academy by the decision of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Leningrad part was made its branch. By the Decree of the USSR Academy of Sciences of September 4, 1957, the IIMK was renamed the Institute of Archeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1991, the Leningrad Branch (LOIA) was transformed into an independent Institute of the History of Material Culture. Thus, the Institute of Archeology, as well as the IIMK RAS, having gone through a chain of transformations, remain the heirs of the oldest archaeological organization established in Russia in 1859 to study and preserve ancient monuments.

The main directions of scientific activity of the Institute:

the problem of the settlement of the most ancient human groups and the development of the territory of Eurasia by man;
the development of primitive societies and the formation of ancient civilizations. Ancient history of material and spiritual culture;
origins of modern civilization technologies: complex producing economy;
the population of the Eurasian steppes and the surrounding world in the 1st millennium BC. - I millennium AD;
centers of ancient civilization in the system of Eurasian cultures;
medieval settlement and ethno-cultural processes in Eastern Europe, Slavic antiquities;
ancient Russia: society, culture, problems of urbanization;
archeology of medieval Moscow;
cultures of the Eurasian steppe zone in the Middle Ages;
problems of theory and methodology in archaeological research;
historical dynamics of adaptive processes in human populations;
radiocarbon dating and dendroscales as the basis for the chronology of ancient cultures;
regulation of field work in Russia and control over the methodology;
preservation of the archaeological heritage: practice and theory;
drawing up an archaeological map of Russia.

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