Gershkovich, Yakov Petrovich

Yakov Petrovich Gershkovich was born on August 21, 1953 in Kiev . He made his first steps into archeology in his school years - he attended the archeology club of the Kiev Palace of Pioneers in the 1960s (under the direction of V. N. Gladilin).

In 1977 he graduated with honors from the history department of Tashkent State University. Immediately after that, in 1977 he began working as a laboratory assistant at the Institute of Archeology. He led the excavation of mounds and ancient settlements as part of Donetsk (later the Second Seversky-Donetsk) and the Krasnoznamensk expedition of the Institute of Archeology.

From 1989 to 1993, Gershkovich worked at the Archeologist Scientific and Production Cooperative ^[4] , which was created at the Institute of Archeology, exploring mounds and multi-layer settlements of the Bronze Age in the Seversky Donets Basin and on the Donetsk Ridge.

In 1993, Gershkovich returned to work at the Institute of Archeology and successfully defended his thesis “Sabatinovskaya culture of the Lower Dnieper and Northwest Azov ”. Since then, he has been working in the Department of Archeology of the Eneolithic - Bronze Age. From 1986 to 1999, he held the position of researcher at the Institute of Archeology of the NAS of Ukraine, and in 1999 he became a senior researcher at the Institute of Archeology ^[5] .

Significant for Gershkovich was the Ukrainian-German expedition to study the Subotovsky settlement in the Cherkasy region in 1994-1995. Over time, he led this project and published the monograph "Subotovskoe settlement". In 2017, according to this book, he successfully defended a dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences at the Institute of Archeology of NASU.

Yakov Gershkovich is the author of more than 130 publications. First of all, these are the monographs “Studien zur spätbronzezeitlichen Sabatinovka-Kultur am unteren Dnepr und an der Westkuste des Azov'schen Meers” ^[6] and “Subotovskoe settlement”. He substantiated a fundamentally new, complex, interpretation of the so-called ash-gazers of the Belogrudov type ^[7] and patterns of cultural-genetic processes in the south of Eastern Europe of the Bronze Age and in the transition period to the Early Iron Age.

Under his scientific supervision A. Korokhin and D. Kushtan successfully defended their candidate dissertations.

He is a member of the editorial board of serial scientific publications “Materials and research from the archeology of Eastern Ukraine” (Lugansk), “Archaeological Almanac ” (Donetsk; Simferopol) and the English version of the journal “Archeology” (Ukrainian Archeology). Together with Professor S. N. Sanzharov, he organized the publication and posthumous reprint of the book of his teacher S. N. Bratchenko “Levents Fortress. The monument of culture of the Bronze Age ” ^[8] .

The initiator of the creation of the “Code of Ethics of a Professional Archaeologist” adopted by the Scientific Council of the Institute of Archeology of the NAS of Ukraine ^[9] . Chairman of the VGO "Association of Archaeologists of Ukraine" ^[10] . He made presentations at numerous scientific symposia and conferences.

Scholarship recipient of a scientific exchange program named after W. Fulbright (USA) and the German Scientific Exchange Service (DAAD).

Participation in archaeological excavations

• During his school years, he took part in the work of archaeological expeditions in Poingul (O.G. Shaposhnikova, I.N. Sharafutdinova), at the Stone Grave in Priazovye and Kiev (V.N.Danilenko), etc.
• 1976-1980 - excavations of ancient mounds in the North-East Azov and Seversky Podontsovye (S. N. Bratchenko).
• 1981 - Novokievsky settlement of Sabatinskaya culture, Kherson region.
• 1982-1989 - mounds and soil burial grounds of different eras, Kherson region.
• 1989-1993 - mounds and settlements of the Bronze Age, Donetsk and Lugansk region.
• 1994-1995 - Subotovsky settlement, Cherkasy region (joint Ukrainian-German expedition).
• 1997, 2017 - mounds and ash-pits of the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age near Netishyn, Khmelnitsky region.
• 2011—2013 - exploration and identification of monuments of different eras in the zones of construction of wind power plants (Nikolaev, Donetsk, Lugansk region).
• 2017— Neteshin expedition of RASU IA NASU.
• 2018— Donetsk expedition of OSAU IA NASU.

Scientific activity

Scientific Publications and Articles

• Ya.P. Gershkovich, V.N. Korpusova, R.S. Orlov. Work with. Golden: article // Archaeological discoveries 1973. - M .: Nauka, 1974. - S. 291-293.
• S.N. Bratchenko, J.P. Gershkovich. Research in the North-East Azov region: article // Archaeological discoveries 1976. - M .: Nauka, 1977. - S. 272—273.
• Ya.P. Gershkovich, S.N. Bratchenko. Excavations of burial mounds in the North-Eastern Azov region: article // Archaeological discoveries 1978. - Moscow, 1979. - P. 307.
• Ya.P. Gershkovich, S.N. Bratchenko. Study of mounds along the Seversky Donets River: article // Archaeological discoveries 1978. - Moscow, 1979. - S. 307-308.
• Gershkovich Ya.P. To the question of Andronovo elements in the log-house culture in Ukraine // Ancient cultures of the Volga and Ural basins, Kuibyshev: collection. - 1979. - S. 92-94 .
• Ya.P. Gershkovich, G.L. Evdokimov. About one category of bone products of the carcass culture // Soviet archeology: journal. - 1982. - No. 4 . - S. 228-231 .
• Gershkovich Ya.P. About the stone funerary structure of the Culture of Wood Graves on the North-East Sea of ​​Azov (Ukrainian) // Archeology. - 1982. - No. 41 . - S. 15-21 .
• ON. Gavrilyuk, I.P. Gershkovich. The burial of the final stage of the Bronze and Early Iron Age in the basin of the Kalmius river of the North Sea of ​​the Azov coast // Materials on the chronology of archaeological sites of Ukraine: collection. - Kiev, 1982. - S. 67-71 .
• I.P. Gershkovich. Cultural and chronological groups of burials of the Middle-Late Bronze Age in Kurgan near the village of Prishchib // Materials on the chronology of archaeological sites of Ukraine: a collection. - Kiev, 1982. - S. 46-61 .
• S.S. Berezanskaya, Y.P. Gershkovich. Elements of Andronovo Culture in the Wood Graves of Ukraine // Bronze Age of the Ural steppe strip - underground flow of the Irtush River: collection. - Chelyabinsk, 1983 .. - S. 100-101 .
• Yakov Gershkovich. Curly belt buckles of multi-roll ceramics culture // Soviet Archeology: article. - 1986. - No. 2 . - S. 132-145 .
• I.P. GERSHKOVICH, KLOCHKO V.I., OLENKOVSKIY N.P. Foundry form of the Late Bronze Age from the Lower Dnieper // Soviet archeology: article. - 1987.- T. 3 . - S. 211 .
• I.P. Gershkovich, V.I. Shred, N.P. Olenkovsky. A new find of a stone mold from the Lower Dnieper // Soviet archeology: article. - 1987.- T. 3 .
• I.P. Gershkovich, V.I. Sorry. The relations of the population of the Lower Dnieper in the Late Bronze Age (based on the materials of the Zavadov workshop) // Tribal relations of the Bronze Age on the territory of Ukraine: article. - Science. Dumka, 1987 .-- pp . 101-130 .
• I.P. Gershkovich, E.A. Shepel. Makeevsky burial mound of the Bronze Age: article // The most ancient pastoralists of the steppes of southern Ukraine / O.G. Shaposhnikov. - Kiev: Naukova Dumka, 1987 .-- S. 198.
• I.P. Gershkovich, V.I. Shred, G.L. Evdokimov. Novokiev Foundry and Chronology Problems of the Sabatin Monuments of the Lower Dnieper // Soviet Archeology: article. - 1987.- T. 2 . - S. 142 .
• Ya.P. Gershkovich, M.M. Ievlev. Ethnocultural changes in the Northern Black Sea Region in the Late Bronze Age in the light of paleoclimatic data // Actual problems of historical and archaeological research: Thes. doc. Republic conf. young archaeologists: article. - 1987. - S. 38-40 .
• J.P. Gershkovich. To the question of the appearance of the Blackwood ceramics in the settlements of the Bondarikha culture in the Seversky Donets basin // TDNK “Problems of the study of archeological monuments of the Seversky Donets: article. - 1990. - S. 57-59 .
• J.P. Gershkovich. On the problem of the correlation of regional patterns of periodization of the Late Bronze Age of the Lower Dnieper, North-Eastern Azov and Podontsovye // Don-Donets region in the antiquity system of the East European steppe and forest-steppe: article. - 1996. - S. 22-24 .
• Yakov Gershkovich. The origin and evolution of the Sabatin ceramic complex // Archaeological Almanac: article. - 1997 .-- T. 6 . - S. 125-144 .
• Gerškovič Jakob. Westliche impulse bei der Formierung des Kulturkomplexes "Noua-Sabatinovka-Coslogeni" (German) // Das Karpatenbecken und die Osteuropäischen Steppe. Prähistorische Arhäologie in Südosteuropa: article. - 1998 .-- T. 12 . - S. 317-324 .
• Yakov Gershkovich. Ethnocultural relations in the Late Bronze Age in the light of the chronological correlation of the monuments (Lower Dnieper - North-Eastern Azov - Podontsovye) // Archaeological Almanac: article. - 1998 .-- T. 7 . - S. 61-92 .
• O.P. Zhuravlev, Y.P. Gershkovich. Animal husbandry of the population of the Sabatinov culture of the Lower Dnieper // Old-time Pivn of the Black Sea and Krim: section in the book. - 1999.- T. 7 . - S. 49-75 .
• J.P. Gershkovich. The interaction of archaeological cultures in the final period of the Late Bronze Age in the South-West of Eastern Europe // XV Ural archaeological meeting. Thes. doc. Int. conf. - 2001.
• J.P. Gershkovich. Paradoxes in the historiography of Sabatin's culture // Stratum Plus: journal. - 2002 .-- T. 2 . - S. 598-607 .
• S. N. Bratchenko, Gershkovich Ya. P. Bakhmutov Kurgan group // Materials and research on archaeologists of Eastern Ukraine: book. - 2003 .-- T. 1 . - S. 247—276 .
• I.P. Gershkovich. The interaction of the population of the steppe and the lisostep of Ukraine for the completion of the bronze bronze // Archeology: journal. - No. 3 . - S. 32-40 .
• Yakov Gershkovich. Phenomenon of the ash-pushers of the Belogrudov type // Russian Archeology: Journal. - 2004 .-- T. 4 . - S. 104-113 .
• Yakiv Gershkovich. Keepers of illegal old-age in Ukraine (Ukrainian) // Archeology: journal. - 2005 .-- T. 3 . - S. 91-97 .
• Ja. P. Gerškovič. Die Hüter illegal erworbener Altertümer in der Ukraine (German) // Archaeologia Circumpontica: Journal. - 2006 .-- T. 4 . - S. 7-16 .
• Ya. Gershkovich. Keepers of illegal antiquities in Ukraine (English) // Archaeologia Bulgarica: Journal. - Sofia, 2006. - No. 3 .
• I.P. Gershkovich. Historical situation in the Late Bronze Age south of the Tshinets-Komarovsky range (Zmierzch kompleksu trzciniecko-komarowskiego. Kształtowanie się nowej rzeczywistości kulturowej w środkowej i młceiztzłzzztzłzzzłozezi - 2006 .-- S. 133-143 .
• Yakov Gershkovich. Ash-gards of the Belogrudov type - complex monumental structures of the Late Bronze Age // Archaeological Almanac: Journal. - 2009 .-- T. 20 . - S. 327-332 .
• Yakov Petrovich Gershkovich. Dnieper-Kamensky complex of casting molds of the Late Bronze Age from the Middle Dnieper // Stratum plus: Archeology and Cultural Anthropology: journal. - 2009. - S. 578-590 .
• I.P. Gershkovich. About the science of ethics, corruption and commencement of the Comintern (from the drive of the zbіrki “Problems of the Protection and Study of Archeology Monuments of the Steppe Zone of Eastern Europe”) (ukr) // Archeology: Journal. - 2010. - No. 4 . - S. 120-125 .
• Yakiv Gershkovych. Korkut's heritage in the cuman milieu of the North Pontic region (English) // Ukrainian Archeology: journal. - 2011. - S. 81-90 .
• Yakov Gershkovich. The All-Ukrainian Public Association of Archaeologists: Its Purposes and Plan of Actions (English) // The European Archaeologist: Journal. - 2011. - No. 35 . - S. 14-16 .
• Yakov Gershkovich. Global Causes of Some Local Phenomena during the Late Bronze Age in the Northern Pontic Steppe (Eng.) // Prähistorische Archäologie in Südosteuropa: Journal. - 2011 .-- T. 27 . - S. 166-177 .
• Yakiv Gershkovich. Pseudo-archeology in the vast spaces: the unspecified is not unspecified (Ukrainian) // Archeology: journal. - 2011 .-- T. 2 . - S. 110-118 .
• I.P. Gershkovich. In memory of Stanislav Nikiforovich Bratchenko (Ukrainian) // Archeology: journal. - 2011.
• Y. Gershkovich. Polovtsy kobyzchi (Ukrainian) // Steppes of Europe in the Middle Ages. The Golden Horde Time: a magazine. - 2012. - No. 11 . - S. 231-250 .
• Ja. P. Gerškovič. Ein Gußformenkomplex der späten Bronzezeit am mittleren Dnepr (German) // Eurasia Antiqua: Journal. - 2012. - No. 18 . - S. 61-75 .
• Olexandra Romashko, Yakiv Gershkovych. Scythian sanctuaries of Ares: archaeological date and Herodotus testimonies (English) // Ukrainian Archaeology: journal. - 2013 .-- S. 19—32 .
• Y. Gershkovich, Pankovsky V. Treasure of bronze products from the woods near the village of Krestishche (Slavic district of Donetsk region, Ukraine) (English) // Revista Arheologică, serie nouă: journal. - 2013. - No. 1 . - S. 188-197 .
• Gershkovich, Y.P., Romashko, O.V. Skifsky sanctuaries of Ares: archeological data and that of Herodotus (ukr) // Archeology: journal. - 2013. - No. 1 . - S. 61-75 .

Published Books

• 1999 - "Study of the Sabatinov culture of the late Bronze Age in the Lower Dnieper and Western Azov" (in German) ^[11] .
• 2016 - “Subotovskoe settlement” (in Russian).
• 2001 - “History of Ukrainian Culture” (section, in Ukrainian) ^[12] .
• 2007 - “Ukraine: Chronology of Development. From ancient times to late antiquity ”(section, in Ukrainian) ^[13] .
• 2007 - “From the Neolithic to the Chimerians” (editor, published in Russian, Ukrainian and Polish) ^[14] .

Papers at Scientific Conferences

• 1979 (March) - “A Question of the Elements of the Andronovo Culture in the Culture of Timber Graves in Ukraine”. - Ancient cultures of the Volga and Ural basins. - Kuibushev (Russia)
• 1987 - "Ethnocultural changes in the Northern Black Sea region during the Last Bronze Age in the light of paleoclimatic data." Actual problems of historical and archaeological research. - Kiev, Ukraine)
• 1991 (October) - “On the Eastern Boundary of the Nova-Sabatinovka-Coslogeni Complex” on the eastern border of the New Sabatinovka-Complex. - Problems of the New Sabatinovka Complex Coslojen. - Calarasi (Moldova)
• 1995 (September) - "The middle Donetsk region in the Last Bronze Age." - Don. Donetsk region. - Lugansk (Ukraine)
• 1996 (November) - “Western impulses in forming of the Nova-Sabatinovka”. Koslodzhen (Koslodgen ') cultural complex. - Carpathian basin and East European steppes. - Krakow (Poland)
• 1998 (November) - “Ethnocultural relations in the Late Bronze Epoch further to South and East from the Tshine- Komarov Complex area”. - The slope of the Tshine-Komarov complex. Zamosc, Lublin (Poland)
• 2000 (January) - “Farmers and Pastoralists of the Pontic Lowland during the Late Bronze Age Late Prehistoric Exploitation of the Eurasien Steppe” - Cambridge (Great Britain )
• 2000 - "The chronology of the frieze of the Last Bronze Age." - Museum readings, Kiev (Ukraine)
• 2005 - "Archeology in the intellectual space of modern Ukraine." - Fulbright Conference, Lviv (Ukraine)
• 2006 - "Codes of activity as a" method of therapy "of corruption in science (on the example of the development of the Code of Ethics of a professional archaeologist of Ukraine) - Fulbright Conference, Kiev (Ukraine)
• 2008 - “Development of Late Bronze Age Culture in the Lower Bug and Dnieper Rivers” (Environment of the Late Bronze Age cultures in the Lower Bug and Dnieper areas) (together with N. Gerasimenko and V. N. Fomenko) - IGCP 521 Conference - INQUA 0501 Fourth Plenary Meeting and Field Trip, Bucharest - Varna (Romania - Bulgaria)
• 2009 - “Global causes of some local phenomena during the Late Bronze Age in the Northen Pontic Steppe”. - Der Schwarzmeerraum vom Äneolithikum bis in die Früheizenzeit (5000 - 500 BC), Berlin - Chisinau (Germany, Moldova)
• 2010 - “International School of Pseudo Archeology: Its Past and Future.” - Modern scientific schools in archeology, Kiev - St. Petersburg (Ukraine, Russia)

• Gershkovich, Yakov Petrovich. Sabatinskaya culture of the Lower Dnieper and Northwest Azov: an abstract of the dissertation of the candidate of historical sciences / Ya.P. Gershkovich. - Kiev, 1993 .-- S. 17.
• I.P. Gershkovich. Subotovsky settlement. - K .: Institute of Archeology of the NAS of Ukraine, 2016 .-- 508 p.
• Gershkovich Ya.P., Pankovsky V.B., Shamray A.V. A treasure trove of bronze items from the woods near the village of Krestische (Slavic district of Donetsk region, Ukraine) (Revista Arheologică, serie nouă) / Ch. Ed. Oleg Leviţki. - Chisinau: Academia de Stiinte a Moldovei, Instituttul Patrimoniului Cultural, Centrul De Arheologie, 2013 .-- T. IX, nr. 1. - S. 188. - 197 p. - ISBN 1857-016X.
• Gershkovich, YP Farmers and Pastoralists of the Black Sea Lowland during the Late Bronze Age : [Chapter 20]. - In: Prehistoric steppe adaptation and the horse / McDonald Institute Monographs // McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research, Cambridge. - 2003.
• Gerškovič Jakov P. Studies related to the Late Bronze Age of the Sabatian culture in the lower Dnieper and on the western coast of the Sea of ​​Azov = Studien zur spätbronzezeitlichen Sabatinovka-Kultur am unteren Dnepr und an der Westküste des Azov'schen Meers / Deutsches Archäologisches Institut - Abteilung. - Rahden / Westf: Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH., 1999. - Vol. 7. - 103 p. - ISBN 9783896462565 .
• Gershkovich, Yakov Petrovich. Sabatinskaya culture of the Lower Dnieper and North-Western Azov // Man and Science: website. - Date of appeal: 10.21.2017.
• Gershkovich, YP Vzayemodii nacelennia stepu ta lisostepu za doby piznoyi bronzi. : section of the book // The Archaeology of Power and Politics in Eurasia: Regimes and Revolutions / Charles W. Hartley, G. Bike Yazicioğlu, Adam T. Smith. - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012 .-- S. 398. - ISBN 978-1-107-01652-1 .
• Bratchenko SN, Gershkovich YP, Kulbaka VK the results of an expedition to excavate ancient graves near the village of Znamyanka, Lugansk region: report // Funeral Rites of the Catacomb Community: 2800-1900 BC: Ritual, Thanatology and geographical origins: reference catalog / Katarzyna Ślusarska. - 13. - Warsaw: Baltic-Pontic studies, 2006. - S. 198.
• Gerškovič, Jakov Petrovič. A Foundry Mold Complex of the Late Bronze Age at the Middle Dniepr // Ein Gußformenkomplex der späten Bronzezeit am mittleren Dnepr: article. - Bonn, 2005 .-- S. 89-112 .
• I.P. Gershkovich, E.E. Antipina, E.Yu. Lebedeva, V.B. Pankovsky, A.N. Usachuk, D.A. Shevchenko. Comprehensive studies of the Late Bronze Age settlements in the Seversky Donets Basin // Archeological reports in Ukraine: journal. - 2003. - No. 204 .

Olga Kharchenko. Russian archaeologists are asking for help from their Ukrainian colleagues // Day (newspaper). - 2012. - No. 90 .