Jelena Eefimovna Kuzmina

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Jelena Jefimowna Kusmina ( Russian Елена Ефимовна Кузьмина ; born April 13, 1931 in Moscow ; † October 17, 2013 there ) was a Soviet - Russian archaeologist , cultural scientist and university teacher .

Life

Kuzmina's ancestors belonged to the Yaroslavl noble families Muchin and Karatygin. Kusmina grew up on the Moscow Tschistyje Prudy . Her interest in archeology was already evident during her school days, so that her history teacher OG Tschumakowa introduced her to the archaeological circle of the History Museum in 1944 . After graduating from school with a gold medal, Artemi Vladimirovich Arzichowski, a member of the admissions committee, convinced her of her firm desire to become an archaeologist that she began studying at the Lomonosov University in Moscow (MGU) in the Faculty of History at the Chair of Archeology in 1949 . She took part in expeditions in Dagestan , Ukraine and Moldova . Her favorite was Central Asia , where she came in 1951 as a member of the Kafirnigan group of the Tajik archaeological expedition headed by Mikhail Mikhailovich Djakonov (1907–1954). Her first work on the defenses of the city of Kei-Kobad-Shah in the Greek-Bactrian Kingdom appeared in 1956. In 1954, she graduated with honors.

After graduating Kuzmina completed 1954-1957 the post graduate course in the Leningrad department of the Moscow Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (since 1991 St. Petersburg Institute of History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences ) under the direction Mikhail Petrovich Grjasnows .

1958–1986 Kusmina worked as a research assistant in the Moscow Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. She was the head of two archaeological groups active in Western Kazakhstan and in Orenburg Oblast . She took part in expeditions to Tajikistan , Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan . In 1964, she defended her candidate dissertation on the development of metal goods production in Central Asia during the Copper Age and Bronze Age .

From 1986 Kuzmina worked at the Russian Institute of Cultural Studies (RIK) in Moscow. At first she headed the department of museology and then became scientific chief assistant. In 1988 she successfully defended her doctoral dissertation on the material culture of the Andronovo tribes and the origin of the Indo-Iranians . She was then appointed professor of archeology. She participated in UNESCO expeditions to India and Sri Lanka . Her main research interests were the archeology of the Bronze Age of Eurasia and in particular the steppes of Central Asia, the cultural relations with China , the ethnogenesis of the Indo-Iranian peoples and the mythology and semantics of the art of the Bactrians and Scythian Saaks . She has given lectures at universities and museums in Russia , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. She has given guest lectures at many foreign universities ( University of Paris , University of London , University of Cambridge , University of Oxford , Humboldt University Berlin , University of Frankfurt , University of Naples Federico II , Harvard University , University of California, Los Angeles , Stanford University , University of California, Berkeley , University of Colombo, University of Delhi, etc.).

Kusmina made important contributions to cultural history and examined contemporary ethnocultural processes. She campaigned for the protection of cultural monuments. In 1982 she became a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute , in 1996 a full member of the Societas Iranologica Europaea in Rome , in 1998 a full member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and a member of the European Association for South Asian Archeology and Art (EASAA) . She was President of the Museum Commission of the Association of Orientalists of Russia and an expert on the Central Asia Commission of UNESCO for the inclusion of monuments in the UNESCO World Heritage List .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Окороков А. В .: Елена Ефимовна Кузьмина . In: Культурологический журнал . No. 3 , 2013, p. 13 ( [1] [accessed April 29, 2020]).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Александра Ипполитова: Елены Ефимовны Кузьминой (accessed April 28, 2020).
  3. ↑ Andrey Epimakhov (ed.): THE Aryan IN THE EURASIAN Steppe: THE BRONZE AND EARLY IRON AGES IN THE Steppe OF EURASIA AND CONTIGUOUS TERRITORIES ( Арии степей Евразии: эпоха бронзы и раннего железа в степях Евразии и на сопредельных территориях : сб памяти. Е.Е. Кузьминой) . Издательство Алтайского государственного университета, Barnaul 2014, ISBN 978-5-7904-1777-1 ( [2] [accessed April 28, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 31.01.2002 г. № 116 О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации (accessed April 29, 2020).
  5. ^ A Classic Example of the Culture-historical Book (accessed April 29, 2020).
  6. ↑ Elena E. Kuz'mina: The Origin of the Indo-Iranians . Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, Boston 2007, ISBN 978-90-04-16054-5 .
  7. ↑ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от January 9, 2012 № 28 "О награждении государственными наградами награждении государственными наградами Росискойами Росискойами от April 29, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Kuzmina, Jelena Efimovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Кузьмина, Елена Ефимовна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet-Russian archaeologist, cultural scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 2013
Place of death Moscow