New Siberian Archaeology

M. V. Shun’kov

A basis for the development of humanities in Siberia was created at the beginning of the 1960s by famous scientists coming to work in Novosibirsk from major Russian cities. In 1966, after a number of reforms the Institute of History, Philology, and Philosophy was created in the Novosibirsk Scientific Center. It acquired the status of the major humanities institute in the structure of Siberian academic science.

The institute owes its great scientific achievements to outstanding organizing skills of its first director, academician A. P. Okladnikov. It is no wonder that large-scale field research in different regions of Siberia and Central Asia has become an intrinsic part of the institute’s scientific activities. Many scientific discoveries of institute’s workers have become a part of the capital of Russian and world archeology, which is illustrated by a number of prestigious scientific awards, given to Siberian scientists.

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