Okladnikov Aleksey

Okladnikov Aleksey (1908‒1981) – archeologist, historian, ethnographer.

He enrolled at the Irkutsk Teachers-Training Institute in 1925. In 1926, he published his first research work ‘Neolithic Sites on Upper Lena’. In 1934, he entered the post-graduate courses of the State Academy of the History of Material Culture.

In 1926-1937, he worked in Irkutsk as Director of the Local History Museum. In 1938-1961, he worked as Researcher at the State Academy of the History of Material Culture (later Institute of the History of Material Culture, and later the Leningrad Branch of the Institute of Archeology) of the Ac. of Sc. of the U.S.S.R. From 1961 till 1966, he was Head of the Department of Humanitarian Studies of the Institute of Economic of the Siberian Branch of the Ac. of Sc. of the U.S.S.R. In 1966, he became Director of the Institute of History, Philology and Philosophy of the Siberian Branch of the Ac. of Sc. of the U.S.S.R. In 1956-1961, he was a member of the Research Council of the Museum of History of Religion and Atheism of the Ac. of Sc. of the U.S.S.R.

Candidate thesis ‘Neolithic Tombs in the Angara Valley’ (1938). Doctor thesis ‘Essays in the History of Yakutia from Paleolithic to the Including into the Russian State’ (1947).

Laureate of the Stalin Award for the finding of a Neanderthal site in the valley of Teshik-Tash in Middle Asia (1950); and the State Award of the U.S.S.R. for editing the publication of ‘The History of Siberia’ in 5 vol. (1973).

Academician of the Ac. of Sc. of the U.S.S.R. (1968). Hero of the Socialist Labour (Order in 1978).

His main works were dedicated to the studies in the field of primordial culture, Paleolithic and Neolithic art, history of Siberia and Far East.

Compositions

Essays on the History of Western Buryat-Mongols (XVII–XVIII Cent.). Leningrad, 1937. (in Rus.)
Ancient Shamanic Images from Eastern Siberia // Sovetskaya arkheologiya. Vol. X, 1948, pp. 203–225. (in Rus.)
The Bear Cult of the Neolithic Tribes of Eastern Siberia // Sovetskaya arkheologiya. Vol. XIV, 1950, pp. 7–19. (in Rus.)
Neolithic and the Bronze Age of the Pribaikalia: in 3 Parts. Moscow – Leningrad, Ac. of Sc. of the U.S.S.R., 1950–1955. (in Rus.)
South Primorie in the Early Iron Age: Some Results of Excavations at the Maikhin Complex of Settlements // Izvestiya of the Siberian Branch Ac. of Sc. of the U.S.S.R., Seria of Social Studies, 1968, No 6. (in Rus.)
Many-Layers Settlement of Maikhe I in Primorie // Arkheologicheskie otkrytiya of 1967. Moscow, Nauka Publishing House, 1968, pp. 155–157. (together with D. L. Brodiansky) (in Rus.)
Far Eastern Centre of Ancient Agriculture // Sovetskaya etnografiya. 1969, No 2, March-April, pp. 3-14. (together with D. L. Brodiansky) (in Rus.)
Excavations of the Many-Layers Settlement near the vil. of Krounovka in Primorie // Arkheologicheskie otkrytiya of 1968. Moscow, Nauka Publishing House, 1969, pp. 208–210. (together with D. L. Brodiansky) (in Rus.)
Petroglyphs of Transbaikalia, in 2 Parts. Leningrad, Nauka Publishing House, 1969–1970. (together with V. D. Zaporozhskaya) (in Rus.)
Petroglyphs of Low Amur. Leningrad, Nauka Publishing House, 1971. (in Rus.)
By the History of the Initial Human Dissemination in Central Asia // Central Asia and Tibet: Conference Materials. Novosibirsk, Nauka Publishing House, 1972, pp. 15–24. (in Rus.)
Neolithic Monuments of Angara. Novosibirsk, Nauka Publishing House, 1974. (in Rus.)
Neolithic Monuments of Middle Angara. Novosibirsk, Nauka Publishing House, 1975. (in Rus.)
Neolithic Monuments of Low Angara. Novosibirsk, Nauka Publishing House, 1976. (in Rus.)
The History and Culture if Buryatia. Ulan Ude, Buryatian Publishing House, 1976. (in Rus.)
Petroglyphs of Mountainous Altai. Novosibirsk, Nauka Publishing House, 1980. (in Rus.)
Petroglyphs of Mongolia. Leningrad, Наука, 1981. (in Rus.)
The Crounovskaya Culture // Archeology of the South of Siberia and Far East. Novosibirsk, 1984, pp. 100–114. (together with D. L. Brodiansky) (in Rus.)
Archeology of Northern, Central, and Eastern Asia. Novosibirsk, 2003. (in Rus.)

About him

Okladnikov Aleksey Pavlovich // Ac. of Sc. of the U.S.S.R. Siberian Branch. Personnel. 1957–1982. Novosibirsk, 1982, p. 47. (in Rus.)
Okladnikov Aleksey Pavlovich // Russian Ac. of Sc. Siberian Branch: Personnel / Comp. by Е. G. Vodichev et al. Novosibirsk, Nauka Publishing House, 2007, pp. 198–199. (in Rus.)
Ноmо Еurasicus in the Deep Space of History: Collection of Works of the International Conferece by the 100the Anniversary of Acad. А. P. Okladnikov. St. Petersburg, Asterion Publishing House, 2008. (in Rus.)
Aleksey Pavlovich Okladnikov. Moscow, Nauka Publishing House, 1981 (Materials for the Bio-Bibliography of Researchers of the U.S.S.R. Seria of History, iss. 13) (in Rus.)
Brodiansky D. L. Memories on the Teacher (Okladnikov А. P.) // Priroda. 1983, No 8, pp. 89–93. (in Rus.)
Derevyanko А. P. Aleksey Pavlovich Okladnikov // Pioneers. Moscow, Molodaya gvardiya Publishing House, 1983. (in Rus.)
Derevyanko А. P., Molodin V. I., Khudiakov Yu. S. The Significance of the Research Legacy of Acad. А. P. Okladnikov for the Development of Archeology of Northern and Central Asia: be the 100th Anniversary // Rossiiskaya arkheologiya. 2008, No 4, pp. 137–143. (in Rus.)
Derevyanko E. I., Zakstelsky А. B. By the Way of Distant Millenia: Pages from the Life of Archeologist and Traveller. Novosibirsk, 2008. (in Rus.)
Researches of Mountainous Altai. Gorno-Altaisk, 2002. (in Rus.)
Konopatsky А. C. A Freat Scout of the Past: Acad. А. P. Okladnikov: Pages of Biography. Novosibirsk, Sibirsly khronograph Publishing House, 2001. (in Rus.)
Larichev V. Е. Forty Years among Siberian Antiquities: Materials by the Biography of Acad. А. P. Okladnikov. Annotated Bibliography. Novosibirsk, Western Siberian Publishing House, 1970. (in Rus.)
Larichev V. Е. Embrace the Immensity! By the 90th Anniversary of Acad. Aleksey Pavlovich Okladnikov // Nauka v Sibiri. 1998, No 27, pp. 5. (in Rus.)
Neolitic and Neolithization of the Basin of the Japanese Sea: Man and Historical Landscape: International Conference by the 100th Anniversary of А. P. Okladnikov. Vladivostok, Far Eastern University, 2008. (in Rus.)
A Window to the Non-Discovered World: Collection of Articles by the 100th Anniversary of Acad. Aleksey Pavlovich Okladnikov. Novosibirsk, Institute of Archeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Ac. of Sc., 2008. (in Rus.)
Zabiyako A.P. The methodology of interpretation of cave paintings: the religious heritage of A.P. Okladnikov // Religiovedenie, 2014. No. 3. P. 172-186. (In Rus.)

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