Nikolay Fedotovich Belyashevsky ( Ukrainian: Bilyashivsky Mikola Fedotovich ; 1867-1926) - Ukrainian Soviet archaeologist, ethnographer, art critic and public figure of the Russian Empire and the USSR .
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Scientific activities
- 3 Political activity
- 4 memory
- 5 Selected Bibliography
- 6 notes
- 7 References
Biography
Nikolai Fedotovich Belyashevsky was born on October 24, 1867 in the city of Uman in the current Cherkasy region of Ukraine in a priest's family. His childhood was spent mainly in the village of Ostriyki , then the Belyashevsky family moved to Kiev.
At first he studied at the Faculty of Law at Kiev University , then he was a volunteer at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Moscow University [1] .
Scientific activity
NF Belyashevsky explored the sites of the Stone Age along the banks of the Dnieper and sites along the Western Bug , carried out a number of excavations in the Kiev , Volyn and Kherson provinces and the Kingdom of Poland [1] .
He has been published many times in the Kievskaya Starina magazine, where from 1899 he led a special department, The Archaeological Chronicle of Southern Russia , which became a separate magazine in 1903-1905. His works were also placed in special archaeological publications [1] .
In 1902-1923 he worked in the Kiev City Art-Industrial and Scientific Museum (now the National Art Museum of Ukraine ). He took an active part in the preparation and conduct of archaeological congresses . He was one of the founders of the Kiev Society for the Protection of Antiquities and Arts (1910).
The author of the first Law of the Ukrainian Republic on the protection of monuments of history, culture and art (1918).
Since 1919, a member of the All-Ukrainian Committee for the Protection of Monuments of Art and Antiquities in Ukraine. Since 1921, Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Archaeological Commission of the SUA .
Political Activities
In 1906 he was elected a member of the First State Duma of the Russian Empire from the Kiev province, where he was part of the Ukrainian community . During the First World War - Commissioner of the Russian Academy of Sciences for the protection of cultural monuments in Galicia and Bukovina . The first commissioner for the protection of the shrines of Kiev (elected by the Council of United Public Organizations in March 1917).
In the days of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, he was a deputy of the Central Rada of the Ukrainian People’s Republic of the 2nd convocation.
Memory
Nikolai Fedotovich Belyashevsky died on April 26, 1926 in the city of Kanev and was buried in the Kanevsky Nature Reserve .
One of the streets of Kiev is named after the scientist.
Selected Bibliography
- Coin treasures of the Kiev province. - Kiev . - 1889. [1] .
- Traces of primitive man on the banks of the river. Dnieper near Kiev. -1890.
- Several new sites of the Stone Age along the Dnieper and its tributaries // Kievan antiquity. - 1891. - T. 32. - Number 3.
- Dune sites of the Neolithic era on the banks of the Zapadnoy Bug River in its middle course // Transactions of the Eleventh Archaeological Congress in Kiev. T.1. - M., 1899 [2] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Belyashevsky, Nikolai Fedotovich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- ↑ Belarusian encyclopedia. T.3. Belarusians - Varanets. - Mn., 1996. - P.94.
Links
- Memorial rooms of Nikolai Fedotovich Belyashevsky in the Museum of Nature of the Kanevsky Nature Reserve