Lazar Lvovich Polevoy (born June 21, 1928 , Pervomaisk , Odessa Oblast (now Nikolaev Oblast ), Ukrainian SSR ) is a Moldavian Soviet medieval historian, archaeologist and numismatist. Doctor of Historical Sciences (1989). [one]
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Biography
Lazar Lvovich Polevoy was born in Pervomaisk, Odessa region, in the family of a staff member of the military financial service Lev Abramovich Polevoy. In 1931 the family moved to Vinnitsa , and in 1935 to Chkalov ; in 1937 she returned to Vinnitsa, then moved to Odessa , and finally in 1940 settled in Chisinau . During the war years - in evacuation in Chkalov , where his mother Anna Semenovna (Hana Shimonovna) Polevaya (1941) died, then in Stalinabad and Ulyanovsk . In 1944 he returned with his father to Moldova - first to Soroki , then to Chisinau, where he graduated from high school and the history department of the University of Chisinau with honors (1951). He was sent to teach biology and geography at a seven-year school in the village of Novaya Obrezha, Glodeni district, Moldavian SSR . In 1952, he was admitted to the Moldavian branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences as an assistant and laboratory assistant for the archaeological expedition. Student G. B. Fedorov (1917-1993). He worked as a researcher in the department of archeology, then medieval history of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Moldavian SSR (in the 1980s - a leading researcher).
He participated in expeditions to study archaeological sites of different eras, especially medieval fortifications of the region - Old Orhei , Costest , Belgorod-Dniester , Alchedar and others. Subsequently, he published a number of scientific articles based on excavation materials. Since 1989, he was a leading researcher in the Department of Jewish History and Culture at the Institute of National Minorities of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova.
The author of works on the archaeological past of Moldova and Romania , published a number of studies on the epigraphy, toponymy, anthroponymy and numismatics of these regions. The work “The Formation of the Basic Hypotheses of the Origin of the East Romanian Nationalities of the Carpathian-Danube Lands” was devoted to the ethnogenesis of the Romance peoples (1972). Author of a number of monographs, including “Archeology of Romania” (with G. B. Fedorov, 1973) and “Essays on the Historical Geography of Moldova of the XIII — XV Centuries” (1979). In the 1990s he was engaged in Jewish historiography.
In 1992 he moved to New York , then to Portland ( Oregon ). Compiled a guide "Russian Jews" on the Jews of Eastern Europe in antiquity, the Commonwealth (Lithuania, Galicia), the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.
Wife - Maya Semenovna Polevaya (d. 1989), worked as a teacher in Kishinev kindergarten No. 8. Two sons - Vladislav and Alexander.
Monographs
- City pottery of Pruto-Dniester in the XIV century: based on excavations of the pottery block in the settlement of Costesti. Chisinau: Editorial and Publishing Department of the Academy of Sciences of the MSSR, 1969.
- Moldavia from stone to bronze (with N. A. Ketraru). Chisinau: Shtiintsa, 1971.
- Archeology of Romania (with G. B. Fedorov). Moscow: Science, 1973.
- Medieval monuments of the XIV-XVII centuries. (with P.P. Byrney). Archaeological Map of the Moldavian SSR, Issue 7. Chisinau: Stiince, 1974.
- Essays on the historical geography of Moldavia in the 13th – 15th centuries Chisinau: Shtiintsa, 1979.
- Early feudal Moldova. Chisinau: Shtiintsa, 1985.
- ... and from that time the Moldavian Land began. Chisinau: Shtiintsa, 1990.
- Russian Jews. Directory. Infinity Publishing (USA), 2014 .-- 1184 p.
Collections edited by L. L. Polevoy
- The distant past of Moldova. Digest of articles. Chisinau: Academy of Sciences of the Moldavian SSR, Institute of History, 1969.
- Southeast Europe in the Middle Ages. Digest of articles. Chisinau: Shtiintsa, 1972.
- Carpathian Danube lands in the Middle Ages. Digest of articles. Chisinau: Shtiintsa, 1975.
- The history of the national economy of the Moldavian SSR (from ancient times to 1812). Chisinau: Shtiintsa, 1976.
- Socio-economic and political history of Southeast Europe (until the middle of the 19th century). Digest of articles. Chisinau: Shtiintsa, 1980.
- History of the Moldavian SSR. Tom. I. From ancient times to the beginning of the 15th century. (deputy editor's office). Chisinau: Shtiintsa, 1987.
- Socio-economic and political history of Moldova during the period of feudalism. Digest of articles. Chisinau: Shtiintsa, 1988.
- General and special in the development of feudalism in Russia and Moldova. Digest of articles. Moscow, 1988.
- Moldavian feudalism: general and special. Digest of articles. Chisinau: Shtiintsa, 1991.