Scheglov, Alexander Nikolaevich

A. N. Shcheglov was born on October 17, 1933 in the city of Velikiye Luki, Pskov Region. His father died back in the 1930s, so his son was raised by his mother, who worked on the railway. During the Great Patriotic War, the family was evacuated first to the Kurgan region , and then to the Kustanai (Toguzak station). After the war ended, the family returned to Velikiye Luki, and then moved to Toropets . Here A.N. Shcheglov in 1949 graduated from a 7-year-old school. Then the family lived in Kherson , where he studied at evening school and worked.

During this period, in 1950-1951, A. N. Shcheglov took part for the first time in archaeological work as part of the Bug-Dnepr expedition, in the detachment of I. D. Ratper, and then, in 1954, in the Simferopol expedition of the Crimean branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences and 1955 - Yalta expedition of the Crimean department of the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR . So he gained valuable experience in practical field work in expeditions under the leadership of P. N. Schulz and O. I. Dombrovsky . He considered Pavel Nikolayevich Schulz his teacher.

A. N. Shcheglov served in the Soviet Army in the airborne troops , where he was a paratrooper , artillery scout and draftsman. Recent specialties have given good skills in the field of cartography, decryption of aerial photographs and the removal of plans, which were useful in the future in scientific work.

From 1959 to 1964 he studied at the correspondence department of Kharkov State University , studying history and ancient archeology. At the same time, from November 1957, A. N. Shcheglov worked as a laboratory assistant in the Tavro-Scythian expedition of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, and since February 1958, he was a researcher at the Khersones historical and archaeological reserve. In 1960, he became the head of the Excavation Department of the Kherson Museum. In the same year his first scientific publications appeared.

During the research period of Chersonese, Anna Mikhailovna Gilevich became the wife and for many years an assistant in her work.

It was then, in 1959, A.N. Shcheglov created the Tarkhankut expedition. For the first time in domestic science, he was given the large-scale task to deal with such a complex issue as the spatial organization of the choirs of the ancient Greek policy, with the global mapping of the entire system of settlements and necropolises of ancient time in Western Crimea.

For the first 10 years, the Tarkhankut expedition carried out reconnaissance and relatively small excavations at separate monuments (Vetrenaya Bay, Tarpanchi, Bolshoi Kastel, etc.). Already then one of the first in Soviet archeology, A. N. Shcheglov, began to systematically use aerial photography materials to identify ancient land use systems, having obtained fundamental results as a result. He managed to reconstruct the entire structure of the distant Kherson choir in the North-Western Crimea, to develop a typology of settlements, etc.

In 1968, A.N. Shcheglov moved to Leningrad , where he began to work first as a junior, and later as a senior researcher in the Leningrad branch of the Institute of Archeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Here he defended his Ph.D. thesis, on the basis of which he then published the monograph "North-Western Crimea in the Ancient Age" (ed. 1971, 1978). At the same time, his small non-fiction book “Polis and Choir” (1976) was published, which did not lose its relevance and published years later in French (1992). In Leningrad, he continued his research on the socio-economic history of the Northern Black Sea coast in the ancient era, on the problem of Greek-barbarian relations on the periphery of the ancient world, and others. His colleagues for scientific work and closest friends for many years became I. B. Brashinsky , Y. V. Domansky and E. D. Frolov . From 1969 to 2005 A. N. Shcheglov taught at the Faculty of History of Leningrad State University , creating a “Greek-barbaric seminar” for students-archaeologists.

Since 1969, the Tarhankut expedition of the LOIA, headed by A. N. Shcheglov, began to work on an integrated basis. Groups of various profiles were organized and consisted on its permanent basis: geophysical , geomorphological , paleobotanical , osteological , aerial photogrammetric , cameral, etc. At the same time, large-scale kindling work was carried out in the settlement of Pansky-1 and its necropolis, on the manors of Pansky-3, Bolshoi Castel et al. Such a comprehensive scientific approach led to the fact that soon this expedition became one of the best and largest Soviet archaeological expeditions, and on its basis new research methods were developed Antique rural settlements, involving the latest advances in natural sciences.

In the early 1970s, A. N. Scheglov, for the first time in the USSR, initiated large-scale and long-term geophysical explorations at a number of large archaeological sites. Electrical and magnetic exploration methods, biophysical reconnaissance methods were developed and tested in the settlement and necropolis of Panske-1 by V. V. Glazunov , G. V. Vnuchkov, K. K. Shilik, T. N. Smekalova and others. Also together with N. S. Blagovolin, he made geomorphological reconstructions for a number of antique monuments of the Northern Black Sea region, and with B. M. Malikov - paleo-economic reconstructions for antique winemaking in Crimea. Valuable results were obtained jointly with N. B. Selivanova during an optical-petrographic analysis of a series of branded amphorae of the Black Sea centers, etc.

Over the years of the Tarkhankut expedition, a scientific school was formed, in which many students with a specialization in "ancient archeology" were trained. The students of A. N. Shcheglov to varying degrees were E. Ya. Rogov (1951-2001), I.V. Tunkina , V.N. Zinko , S. L. Solovyov, E. Ya. Turovsky , M.I. Zolotarev , G.M. Nikolaenko , V.F. Pillar and others.

The 1970-1990s became the most eventful and fruitful in the life of A. N. Shcheglov. His speeches at numerous scientific conferences, informative articles gradually brought international scientific recognition. Particularly important was the collaboration that began in 1992 and continued for more than 15 years between the IIMK RAS and the Institute of Classical Archeology of the University of Aarhus ( Denmark ), which was supervised by A. N. Shcheglov and L. Hannestad.

The 70th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Nikolayevich Scheglov was widely celebrated in 2003 by the entire anti-history community. In Sevastopol , the 13th edition of the “Chersonese Collection” was published in honor of its 70th anniversary, and at the University of Aarhus in Denmark a collection of works “The Cauldron of Ariantas. Studies presented to AN Sceglov on the occasion of his 70th birthday. " Research materials from the Tarkhankut expedition also began to be monographically published in Denmark (the first volume was devoted to a detailed analysis of materials from estate 6 of Panske-1 settlement: Panskoe-1. Vol. I. The Monumental Building U6. Aarhus. 2002), prepared for publication materials of the Panskoe-1 necropolis.

The author of 230 scientific papers. Over the decades of his article, reviews were published in the journal “ Bulletin of Ancient History ” and other publications.

• A.N. Shcheglov // Archaeological News. 2004. - No. 11. - P. 11.
• Alexander Nikolayevich Shcheglov seventy years // Kherson collection. - 2004. - Vol. 13. - S. 3-4.

• IN MEMORY OF ALEXANDER NIKOLAEVICH SHCHEGLOV (1933-2009) (inaccessible link)
• Tikhonov I. L. Shcheglov Alexander Nikolaevich // Biography of St. Petersburg State University