Tatiana Nikolaevna Troitskaya

Tatjana Nikolajewna Troitskaja ( Russian Татьяна Николаевна Троицкая ; born May 9, 1925 in Tbilisi ) is a Russian archaeologist and university professor .

Life

Troitskaya, daughter of a family of botanists , was interested in history from a young age . After graduating from secondary school in 1942, she began studying in Birsk at the Natural Science Faculty of the Birsk Pedagogical Institute, as there were no places at the history faculties . When her parents moved, she moved to the distance learning department of the Moscow Pedagogical Institute . At the same time she worked at the Orlovsk Pedagogical Institute. In 1945 she took part for the first time in an excavation expedition in the Scythian Neapolis near Simferopol . Since then, until the 1990s, she has not missed an excavation season. She graduated from the History Faculty of the Pedagogical Institute of the Crimea in Simferopol in 1947 .

After graduation, Troitskaya worked as an assistant at the Department of General History of the Pedagogical Institute of Crimea and as a laboratory assistant in the Department of History of the Crimea of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine . During her aspirantur in archeology with Boris Alexandrowitsch Rybakow and Pawel Nikjolajewitsch Schulz 1951-1954 she made her candidate dissertation on the Scythian burial mounds in the Crimea. In 1955 she was a research assistant at the Institute of History, Literature and Languages ​​of the Bashkir Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (AN-SSSR) .

In 1956 Troitskaya went to Novosibirsk and taught there at the Chair of General History at the Pedagogical Institute. She systematically identified archaeological sites in Novosibirsk Oblast and examined them without professional help and support, for which she developed a new methodology. She made discoveries in Rajons Kolyvan , Ordynskoje , Iskitim and the river Uen. Together with her students Vyacheslav Ivanovich Molodin and VI Sobolew, she published an archaeological map of Novosibirsk Oblast in 1980 . The 50,000 finds in the Novosibirsk State Museum of Local History come from the activities of Troitskaya and her students. In 1981 she successfully defended her doctoral dissertation on the forest steppe on the Ob in the early Iron Age . In 1983 she became a professor at the Department of Patriotic History at the Pedagogical Institute.

In 1991 Troitskaya became a professor at the Chair of World Cultural History at the Novosibirsk Pedagogical Institute. At the Pedagogical Institute she founded a museum for archeology and then another one for history. For many years she was a member of the Presidium of the Society for the Protection of Cultural Monuments and President of the Archaeological Section as well as a member of the Coordinating Council for the Archeology of Western Siberia . She is currently in charge of the aspiration. She received the Order of Merit for the Fatherland II class.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Сальникова И.В .: 80 лет со дня рождения Татьяны Николаевны Троицкой . In: Календарь знаменательных и памятных дат по Новосибирской области . 2005 ( ngonb.ru [accessed January 29, 2018]).
2. ↑ Троицкая, Татьяна Николаевна (Историческая энциклопедия Сибири, 2009) (accessed January 29, 2018).