Zhukov, Boris Sergeevich

Boris Zhukov was born December 1, 1892 in Nizhny Novgorod ^[1] in the family of a journalist ^[2] . In 1918 he graduated from the Department of Physics and Mathematics of Moscow State University with an anthropology department. Its supervisor was D.N. Anuchin . In 1920 he graduated from graduate school. He worked at the Central Museum of Ethnology as the head of the department in Indonesia, Australia, Oceania and Africa. In 1918-1931 he also worked at the Institute of Anthropology of Moscow State University as a scientific secretary and deputy director. Under his leadership, a paleo-ethnological laboratory was created at the institute and an anthropological complex expedition was organized in the Central Industrial Region ^[1] . Since 1924 - a member of the Moscow section of GAIMK . He was also a member of the Central Bureau of Local Lore , headed the department and paleontological laboratory of the Central Museum of Local Lore. In 1929, he was one of the speakers at the I International Congress of Archaeologists in Berlin . In 1921-1930 he taught at the Department of Anthropology of Moscow State University, was a professor of paleoanthropology ^[3] . His students were A.E. Alikhova , O. N. Bader , M. V. Voevodsky , E. I. Goryunova , G. F. Debets , A. V. Zbrueva , M. G. Levin , S. F. Preobrazhensky , T. A. Trofimova , S. P. Tolstov , N. N. Cheboksarov and others ^[1] .

He lived in Moscow at the address: Zubovsky Boulevard , building 15, apt. 22.

In 1931 he was arrested in an “ academic case ” (Articles 58-11, 58-12 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (anti-Soviet organization and non-reporting)) ^[2] . On August 23, 1931, he was sentenced by the OGPU College to 3 years in forced labor camps. He was serving his sentence in the Siblag of the Kemerovo region . Released by order of July 27, 1933 ^[4] . He died on May 29, 1934 in Alma-Ata (according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he died in a camp in 1933). Rehabilitated in 1959 ^[3] .

Boris Zhukov was one of the largest Soviet specialists in the paleo-ethnological direction of archeology. In the study of ancient cultures, he relied on a synthesis of archaeological, anthropological, ethnographic, linguistic sources and natural science data. He developed a methodology for studying ceramic complexes. He was engaged in the study of archaeological sites in the center of the Russian Plain, in the Volga region, in the Urals and in the Crimea ^[1] .

• Human Origins. P.; M., 1923. 5th ed. M .; L., 1931;
• The first miners and metalworkers. M., 1924;
• The oldest builders of wood and stone. M., 1925;
• Work on paleoethnology in the USSR for 1918-1925. // Ethnography. 1926. No. 1/2;
• How people settled on the ground. M .; L., 1927;
• Archeology // Social Sciences of the USSR. 1917-1927. M., 1928;
• The theory of chronological and territorial modifications of some Neolithic cultures of Eastern Europe according to the study of ceramics // Ethnography. 1929. No. 1;
• The theory of chronological and territorial modifications of some Neolithic cultures of Eastern Europe according to the study of ceramics // Anthology of Soviet archeology. M., 1995.V. 1.

• Bader O. N. In memory of B. S. Zhukov // Soviet archeology . 1968. No. 4;
• People and destinies. Bibliographic dictionary of Orientalists - victims of political terror in the Soviet period (1917-1991). SPb., 2003;
• Kuzminykh S.V.O. N. Bader and Russian Archeology of the Early Metal Age // Russian Archeology. 2004. No. 4.