Zbrueva, Anna Vasilievna

She was born on June 25 ( July 7 in a new style) in 1894 in Moscow.

After graduating from high school at the age of sixteen, she became a national teacher, first in the Moscow region , then in Moscow. After the October Revolution, she continued her education - in 1922 she entered Moscow State University at the Department of Archeology and Art Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences. Student of B. S. Zhukov ^[1] . After graduating from the university in 1925, one of the first Soviet archaeologists, Zbrueva began her scientific museum activities as a freelancer at the State Historical Museum . She later worked as a research fellow at the Museum of Ethnology and the Museum of Anthropology at Moscow University. In 1928, in the territory of the Nizhny Novgorod region ( Navashinsky district ), together with A. Alikhova, she excavated the Malo-Okulovsky burial mound of the late Bronze Age culture. ^[2]

In 1936, Anna Zbrueva moved to the Moscow branch of the State Academy of the History of Material Culture ( GAIMK , later the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR ), where she completed all her subsequent scientific work until her retirement in 1962.

Initially studied the primeval places of the North of the USSR. Together with A. Ya. Bryusov and A.P. Smirnov, she was on expeditions to the Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic , the Arkhangelsk and Kostroma Regions. As a result of these works, she published articles on ancient monuments left by northern tribes. In 1932-1934, she worked as part of the archaeological expedition of GAIMK on the construction of the Canal named after Moscow and the laying of the first stage of the Moscow Metro . In 1936 she participated in the work of the Crimean paleoanthropological expedition of Moscow State University. In 1933-1937, she led a detachment of the Kama expedition to the excavations of the Galkinsky fortification ^[3] and the Konetsgorsk village ^[4] near Perm , conducted reconnaissance on the rivers Chusova, Tue and Gareva. In 1938-1940, Zbrueva participated in the excavation of a complex of monuments near Yelabuga . In 1941 A.V. Zbrueva defended her thesis on the topic “Settlements of Ananyin Culture”.

During World War II A.V. Zbrueva continued to work in evacuation. After the war, she led the 2nd detachment of the Kuibyshev expedition, carried out field work in the flood zone during the construction of the Kuibyshev hydroelectric station. Then, studying the origin of the Ananyin tribes, she studied the monuments of the Late Bronze Age on the territory of North-Western Bashkiria. For several years, she led the expedition of the Institute of Archeology and the Bashkir branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, during which she studied the site named after M.I. Kasyanov of the Kurmantau culture, the burial ground of the Metev-Tamak culture of the Balanbash, the Novobaskakovsky burial mounds and the Metevtamakskaya, Novobaskakovskaya, Starotukmaklinskaya campsites of the log-house culture . Zbrueva discovered the sites of Akhmetovo I and II , 60 km north-west of Ufa , dating to the end of the II millennium BC. e. In 1953, for her work “The history of the population of Prikamye in the Ananinsk era,” she received a doctorate in historical sciences. ^[2]

She died as a result of a long illness on September 6, 1965 in Moscow.

• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (03/27/1954)
• medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War"

• Ananyin culture

• Zbrueva Anna Vasilievna
• ZBRUEVA Anna Vasilievna