Svetlana Alexandrovna Pletnjowa

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Svetlana Alexandrovna Pletnjowa

Svetlana Alexandrovna Pletnjowa ( Russian Светлана Александровна Плетнёва ; born April 20, 1926 in Vyatka ; † November 20, 2008 in Moscow ) was a Soviet historian , archaeologist and university professor .

Life

Pletnjowa studied at the historical faculty of Moscow University (MGU) with graduation in 1949. This was followed by an aspirantur at the Institute of Material Culture of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (AN-SSSR, now Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN)). She took part in the archaeological Volga - Don expedition led by Mikhail Illarionowitsch Artamonov to investigate the Sarkel fortress (1949–1951). In 1952 she completed her apprenticeship by defending her doctoral dissertation , prepared by Boris Alexandrowitsch Rybakow and Michail Illarionowitsch Artamonow, on the nomads of the southern Russian steppes in the 9th to 13th centuries based on archaeological finds and written sources.

From 1952 to 2006, Pletnyova worked and taught in Moscow at the Institute of Material Culture of the AN-SSSR, which became the Institute of Archeology of the RAN. In 1968 she defended her doctoral thesis on the migration of nomads to the cities. In 1982 he was appointed professor . 1974–1991 she headed the department for Slavic-Russian archeology. She led a number of expeditions to investigate the monuments of the Saltowo-Mayaki culture (east of the Penkowka culture ) of the Iron Age in southern Russia (mid-8th to early 10th centuries in the Khazar - Khaganat ). This included a Soviet- Bulgarian expedition to study the first Bulgarian capital Pliska and a Soviet-Bulgarian- Hungarian expedition to study the fortress Majazkoje Gorodishtche in the current Nature Reserve Diwnogorje ( Rajon Liski ) (1975, 1977-1982). She was the archaeologist at Tmutarakan Fortress .

1988–1994 Pletnjowa was chief editor of the journal for Soviet and Russian archeology (after Boris Alexandrowitsch Rybakow and before Valeri Ivanovich Guljajew ). 1993–2002 she headed the group for medieval archeology of the Eurasian steppes. She supervised 26 candidate dissertations and 4 doctoral dissertations. Her research led to a large number of publications. Her work has been translated into Bulgarian , Serbian , Hungarian , German , French and Japanese . Her students included Igor Leonidowitsch Kyslasow , Viktor Nikolajewitsch Tschchajidze and KI Krassilnikow.

Pletnjowa was buried in the town cemetery of Wereja .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Бобров А. Г .: Плетнёва Светлана Александровна . In: Энциклопедия " Слова о полку Игореве ": В 5 т. Т. 4 . Дмитрий Буланин, St. Petersburg 1995, p. 118–119 ( [1] [accessed December 17, 2019]).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Большая российская энциклопедия: ПЛЕТНЁВА Светлана Александровна (accessed December 18, 2019).
  3. ↑ Svetlana Alexandrowna Pletnjowa: The Khazars: Medieval Empire on the Don and the Volga (translation from the Russian by Alexander Häusler) . 1st edition. Koehler & Amelang , Leipzig 1978.
  4. ↑ Плетнева С. А .: Оборонительная стена в Таматархе-Тмутаракани . In: Историко-археологический альманах . No. 6 , 2000, pp. 21–28 ( [2] [accessed December 18, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Средневековая археология евразийских степей. Сборник статей к юбилею профессора С.А. Плетнёвой . In: Материалы и иссследования по археологии Поволжья. Вып. 3 . Йошкар-Ола, Moscow 2006, ISBN 5-94808-198-2 ( [3] [accessed December 18, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Pletnjowa, Svetlana Alexandrovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Плетнёва, Светлана Александровна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet historian, archaeologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Vyatka
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 2008
Place of death Moscow