Boris Alekseevich Frolov (1939-2005) - Soviet and Russian historian , archaeologist , specialist in the art of Paleolithic . Doctor of Historical Sciences, worked as a senior researcher at the Institute of Ethnography. N. N. Miklouho-Maclay Academy of Sciences of the USSR .
| Frolov Boris Alekseevich | |
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| Date of Birth | August 21, 1939 |
| Place of Birth | Moscow , USSR |
| Date of death | January 13, 2005 (aged 65) |
| Place of death | Russia |
| Citizenship |  USSR →  Russia |
| Occupation | Scientist |
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Biography
Born on August 21, 1939 in Moscow in a family of scientists. Father - Fleksey Petrovich - and mother - Anna Nikolaevna Frolov - worked at the All-Russian Institute of Light Alloys .
In childhood, he showed interest in art, since his uncle - Konstantin Petrovich Frolov - was an honored artist of Russia. After graduating from school, in 1956 he entered the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University . After becoming a newspaper literary worker, he left for distribution in Novosibirsk , where he began working as an employee of the newspaper Path to Communism (1961-1962) and the weekly journal For Science in Siberia (1961-1963) of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences .
In Novosibirsk, Frolov met with the historian and archaeologist A.P. Okladnikov , which determined his future life. Together with A.P. Okladnikov, he began to go on archaeological expeditions. Having finally decided to devote himself to archeology, in 1963 Frolov entered graduate school at the Institute of Economics of the Department of Humanitarian Studies of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences with a degree in archeology and cultural history; Okladnikov, who worked in those years as the deputy director of the institute, became his scientific adviser. The object of study Frolov chooses the art of the Paleolithic era. in 1966 he defended his thesis on the topic "The rational content of art in the Paleolithic (based on ornamental materials)."
In 1967, Frolov returned from Novosibirsk to Moscow and joined the Institute of the History of Natural Science and Technology. S. I. Vavilova, USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1975, in Novosibirsk, he defended his doctoral dissertation "Problems of primitive creativity (based on the materials of the historiography of the Paleolithic art of Eurasia)." Since 1980, he was hired by the Institute of Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , where he worked until the end of his life.
He died on January 13, 2005 . [one]
Merit
B. A. Frolov is the author of 120 scientific papers, an honorary member of a number of foreign scientific societies. The main works are devoted to the problems of the history of culture and the genesis of creative activity. He was also a popularizer of science and many of his articles were published in popular science journals of the USSR and Russia.
Bibliography
- What the Siberian Madonna [printed text] told about / Frolov, Boris Alekseevich, Author. - Moscow: Knowledge, 1981. - 112 p .; 20 cm. - 100,000 copies
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Links
- Boris Alekseevich Frolov
- Batyanova E.P., Weinstein S.I. In memory of Boris Alekseevich Frolov