Botalov, Sergey Gennadievich

Sergey Gennadievich Botalov - a famous Ural archaeologist, oriental historian, writer and publicist was born on July 2, 1958 in the village of Fedorovo, Yusvinsky District, Perm Region, candidate of historical sciences (1994), doctor of historical sciences (2003), full member of the Turkic Academy of Sciences (1999 )

He graduated from high school in the city of Kartaly, Chelyabinsk region, entered the Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical Institute (1975). As a student, going on an archaeological expedition, became interested in the unexplored period of the medieval history of the Southern Urals and Northern Kazakhstan.

Since the beginning of the 80s S.G. Botalov is the leader and organizer of numerous expeditions to identify and explore the archaeological sites of the nomadic communities of the Ural-Kazakhstan steppes, as well as monuments that fall into the canal construction zone for transferring Siberian rivers to the Aral Sea. He participated in the excavation of mounds and hillforts in the Crimea, Kherson region, Kazakhstan.

In 1987, an archaeological unit led by S.G. Botalova was openly fortified settlement of the Bronze Age - Arkaim.

Since 1994, he is a research fellow at the Institute of History and Archeology of the Cro RAS (Ekaterinburg).

In 2007, he became a professor at SUSU at the International Regional Studies course. For the first time, a scientist systematized and summarized materials from monuments of late antiquity and the Middle Ages, proposed a scheme of chronological and ethnocultural development of the steppes of the South Trans-Urals and Northern Kazakhstan.

In the 80s, after the excavation of the mounds of Druzhensky and Bolshe-Karagansky burial grounds S.G. For the first time, Botalov argued, suggested the attribution of monuments of the Late Sarmatian culture to the funerary and sacrificial memorial complexes of the early Huns, with which, first of all, Sarmatian experts did not agree. In this regard, the author prepared and published the fundamental monograph “Huns and Türks” (2009), where he summarized the materials of the 2nd – 8th centuries. from the vast territory of the Eurasian steppes - from Ordos to the Carpathian basin.

In 1996, S.G. Botalov established a discrepancy between the so-called "barrows with a mustache" or with stone ridges with burial complexes of the Tasmola culture of the early Iron Age. Having carried out full-scale archaeological research of this type of monuments (cemeteries of Gorodishchensky IX, Elizavetpolsky, Kainsay and others), the scientist dates them to the early Middle Ages and connects these monuments with the early Bulgarian population of the Ural-Kazakhstan steppes (the tribe blew in the association he ok budum [onogur “10 arrows” ]), which was formed from the post-Hun time and later entered the West Turkic Kaganate. Thus, S.G. Botalov was the first to discover and interpret the Ural-Kazakhstan monuments of the Hun and Turkic eras.

In 1990, S.G. Botalov organized and headed an archaeological research and production enterprise engaged in the study of monuments falling into the construction zone, as well as the organization and re-exposure of city and district museums in the Chelyabinsk region. The company carries out numerous archaeological security excavations in the city of Chelyabinsk.

In 2009, under the leadership of S.G. Botalova was opened Uelgi funeral complex (Kunashaksky district, Chelyabinsk region), the materials of which have received worldwide fame. Excavations of this multicultural complex of the 8th – 9th centuries allowed a new approach to the problem of cultural genesis of the Bashkirs, Hungarians, Volga and Siberian Tatars, Kypchaks, Kyrgyz and Trans-Ural Ugrians (Mansi).

S.G. Botalov is the author of over a hundred publications and five monographs. The scientist’s views on the historical fate of the ancient ethnic groups that inhabited the territory of the Urals are also reflected in the Nomady art (2000; 2017), a popular popular science book, which describes the key stages of the history of the Great Eurasian Steppe in poetic form.

S.G. Botalov is one of the authors of the concept of constructing an exposition at the Chelyabinsk Regional Museum of Local Lore and creating the museum "Peoples and Technologies of the Urals" at South Ural State University (Chelyabinsk).

The author of more than 500 scientific articles, four monographs and the popular science publication "Nomads." Among them:

• Botalov, S. G. Hunno-Sarmatians of the Ural-Kazakhstan steppes / S. G. Botalov, S. Yu. Gutsalov. - Chelyabinsk: Rifey, 2000 .-- 265 p.
• Botalov, S. G. Mounds with a "mustache" of the Ural-Kazakhstan steppes / S. G. Botalov, A. D. Tairov, I. E. Lyubchansky; Grew up. Acad. sciences [and others]. - Chelyabinsk: South Ural. Phil. IIA UB RAS, 2006 .-- 229 p. : ill.
• Archeology of the South Urals. Steppe = Archeology of the South Ural. The steppe: (problems of cultural genesis) / Ros. Acad. sciences; Ed .: S. G. Botalov [et al.]. - Chelyabinsk: Rifey, 2006 .-- 527 p. : ill.
• Botalov, S. G. Kurgan at the lake. Sineglazovo (from the excavations of N.K. Minko and S.A. Gattsuk) // Early Iron Age and Middle Ages of the Ural-Irtysh Interfluve: interuniversity. Sat / holes Ed .: G. B. Zdanovich [et al.]. - Chelyabinsk, 1987. - S. 105-119.
• Botalov, S. G. Cultural-Chronological Affiliation of the Sineglazov Mounds // Problems of Archeology of the Ural-Kazakhstan Steppes: Interuniversity. Sat / Bashkir. state un-t them. 40th anniversary of the October Revolution, Chelyab. state un-t - Chelyabinsk, 1988 .-- S. 126-140.
• Botalov, S. G. Nurinsky burial of the VIII — IX centuries. // Archeology of the Volga-Ural steppes: interuniversity. Sat scientific tr / editorial: G. B. Zdanovich (ed. ed.) [et al.]. - Chelyabinsk, 1990 .-- S. 147-150.
• Botalov, S. G. Bolshekaragansky burial ground of the 2nd — 3rd centuries n e. : studied in the summer of 1987 on the Bolshaya Karaganka River in Kizil. and Bredin. districts // Nomads of the Ural-Kazakhstan steppes: collection. scientific tr / holes ed. A. D. Tairov. - Yekaterinburg, 1993 .-- S. 122-143.
• Botalov, S. G. Volga-Ural and Kazakhstan steppes in the VI – VII centuries. (Some issues of Turkization of the Ural-Kazakhstan steppes) // New in the archeology of the Southern Urals: Sat. scientific tr / ed. S. A. Grigoriev. - Chelyabinsk, 1996. - S. 194-209.
• Botalov, S.G. Hunno-Sarmatian monuments of the South Trans-Urals 3–5 centuries // New in the archeology of the South Urals: collection of articles scientific tr / ed. S. A. Grigoriev. - Chelyabinsk, 1996 .-- S. 178-193.
• Botalov, S. G. Stone sculptures and sacrificial memorial complexes of the Ural-Ishim Interfluve // ​​New in the archeology of the Southern Urals: collection. scientific tr / ed. S. A. Grigoriev. - Chelyabinsk, 1996. - S. 210-244.
• Botalov, S. G. Monuments of the Early Iron Age in the vicinity of the village of Varna / S. G. Botalov, A. D. Tairov // Materials on archeology and ethnography of the Southern Urals: tr. Museum-reserve Arkaim / ed. A. D. Tairov. - Chelyabinsk, 1996 .-- S. 117-138.
• Botalov, S. G. Monuments of the Selentash type in the South Trans-Urals // Materials on archeology and ethnography of the Southern Urals: tr. Museum-reserve Arkaim / ed. A. D. Tairov. - Chelyabinsk, 1996 .-- S. 148-158.
• Botalov, S. G. Funeral complexes of the Bronze Age of the Bolshekaragansky burial ground / S. G. Botalov, S. A. Grigoryev, G. B. Zdanovich // Materials on archeology and ethnography of the Southern Urals: Tr. Museum-reserve Arkaim / ed. S. A. Tairov. - Chelyabinsk, 1996 .-- S. 64-68.
• Botalov, S. G. Archaeological studies of the cultural layer of the 18th-19th centuries. Chelyabinsk // Chelyabinsk unknown: local historian. Sat / comp. V. S. God. - Chelyabinsk, 1998. - Vol. 2. - S. 7-14.
• Botalov, S. G. The era of the Middle Ages of the Ural-Kazakhstan steppes of the II-XI centuries. // Ural in the past and present: materials nauch. conf. / Editorial: V.V. Alekseev (Chap. Ed.) [et al.]. - Yekaterinburg, 1998. - Part 1. - S. 21-25.
• Botalov, S. G. Bulldozer for History / S. G. Botalov, A. Epimakhov // Chelyab. working. - 1999. - Dec 30
• Botalov, S. G. Huns: (an attempt to reconstruct cultural genesis) // XIV Ural Archaeological Conference (April 21-24, 1999): thesis. doc. / ed. S. A. Grigoriev. - Chelyabinsk, 1999 .-- S. 154-156.
• Botalov, S. G. Investigation of the medieval burial ground Agapovsky // Archaeological discoveries of 1997 / ed. V.V. Sedov. - M., 1999 .-- S. 195-197.
• Botalov ,, S. G. Excavations of the historical and cultural part of the city [Chelyabinsk] tell us about what was before us // Chelyabinsk. - 1999. - No. 5. - S. 42-43.
• Botalov, S. G. Turki (an attempt to reconstruct ethnogenesis) // XIV Ural archaeological meeting (April 21, 1999): thesis. doc. - Chelyabinsk, 1999 .-- S. 157-158.
• Botalov, S. G. Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages // Ancient History of the South Trans-Urals: in 2 volumes / rev. ed. N.O. Ivanova. - Chelyabinsk, 2000. - T. 2, sect. IV. - S. 207-430.
• Botalov, S. G. Burial complex of Kesene / S. G. Botalov, G. Ya. Malamud // Ufa Archaeological Bulletin: collection of books. scientific Art. / Institute of Language and Literature, UC RAS. -Ufa, 2001. - Vol. 3 .-- S. 162-167.
• Botalov, S. G. Two Thousand Years of the Great Migration // Arkaim: According to the Pages of the Ancient South History Ural: [Sat Art.] / [scientific. ed. G. B. Zdanovich; ed. N.O. Ivanova]. Chelyabinsk, 2004 .-- pp. 223–252.
• Botalov, S. G. Nomads: poems, essays / S. G. Botalov. - Chelyabinsk: Rifey, 2003 .-- 423 p. : ill.
• Botalov S.G. Autumn flashes: lyrics / S.G. Botalov. - Chelyabinsk: Rifey, 2003 .-- 187 p.
• Botalov, S. G. The ancient city, the young city ...: conversation with the director of scientific-production. Chelyab enterprises. cultural fund S. G. Botalov / recorded I. Bogdanov // South Ural. panorama. - Chelyabinsk, 1997. - September 11.
• Ivanova, N.O. Botalov Sergey Gennadievich // Chelyabinsk region: encyclopedia: 7 volumes / editorial board: K. N. Bochkarev (chap. Ed.) [Et al.] .- Chelyabinsk, 2003. - V. .-- S. 480.
• Ivanova, N.O. Botalov Sergey Gennadievich // Chelyabinsk: Encyclopedia. - Ed. corrected and add. / comp .: V.S. God, V.A. Chernozemtsev. - Chelyabinsk, 2001 .-- S. 112-113.
• Pincus, M. Shigirsky ghost // Chelyab. working. - 2002. - Sep 19.
• Fonotov, M. Nomad of the Millennium: Chelyab. archaeologist S. Botalov wrote the book. "Nomads" // Chelyab. working. - 2001. - Feb 13.
• Huns and Turks: (source-archeol. Reconstruction). - Riphean, 2009.

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