Zamyatnin, Sergey Nikolaevich

After graduating from the Voronezh gymnasium since 1915, he participated in archaeological research, worked in the Voronezh Museum.

In 1917–1922, he was authorized to protect cultural monuments in the Voronezh Province, then head of the Archeological Department of the Voronezh Museum, a provincial instructor in museum affairs and protection of monuments, worked in the Archives Department; taught archeology in the Voronezh branch of the Moscow Archaeological Institute .

In 1921 he published the work “On the archaeological map of the Voronezh province”, with the application “Programs for collecting information on primitive antiquities”, in 1922 - “Essays on the prehistory of the Voronezh region”.

Since 1924 in Leningrad , he worked at the State Academy of Material Culture History ( Institute of Archeology ). He taught at the Leningrad State University and the Leningrad Institute of History, Philosophy, and Literature .

During the evacuation, S. N. Zamyatnin worked at the Central Asian State University (SASU, 1942-1944).

Field studies of S. Zamyatnin in 1925–1933 largely created a base of sources for the study of the Paleolithic of Eastern Europe , he was one of the first to investigate the Paleolithic dwelling ( Gagarin site , 1927). In 1934 he became a candidate of historical sciences without defending a thesis; in combination, he began working at the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography .

In 1934–1957 he conducted field research in the Caucasus (during the Great Patriotic War — in Tajikistan ). In Mgvimevi ( Georgia ) for the first time in the USSR revealed rock engravings of the Upper Paleolithic ; According to the materials of the caves near Adler, he established stratigraphy of the layers of the Paleolithic monuments of the Caucasus from the Mousterian era to the Upper Paleolithic .

He opened the first monuments of Ashelian culture of the early Paleolithic in the North Caucasus , he owned the opening of the first monuments of the ancient Paleolithic in the USSR, the study of the Paleolithic sites Berdyzh , Kostenki , Satani Dar , Yashtukh , Sukha Moshka and many others.

He excavated the Volgograd site, attracting paleontologists , geologists , and palynologists .

He created periodization of the Paleolithic of the Caucasus, a number of fundamental generalizing works on the Paleolithic of the Russian Plain , Transcaucasia , Europe as a whole (many were not published, the final manuscript was not completed), studied local differences in Paleolithic culture, Paleolithic and Neolithic art. He explored a number of Neolithic, Bronze and Iron monuments in the USSR.

S. N. Zamyatnin - one of the founders of the magazine " Soviet archeology ".

• The order of Lenin
• USSR medals

• New data on the Paleolithic of the Transcaucasus // Soviet ethnography. 1935. No. 2;
• Paleolithic Abkhazia. Sukhumi, 1937;
• About the emergence of local differences in the culture of the Paleolithic period / / The origin of man and the ancient settlement of humanity. M., 1951;
• Paleolithic Western Transcaucasia / / Sat. Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography. 1957. T. 17;
• Essays on the Paleolithic. M .; L., 1961.

• Sergey Nikolaevich Zamyatnin // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 t.] / Ch. ed. A. M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.
• Voronezh Encyclopedia: In 2 t. / Ch. ed. M.D. Karpachev . - Voronezh: Center for the Spiritual Revival of the Black Earth Region, 2008. - Vol. 1: AM. - 524 s.
• S. N. Zamyatnin // “ Soviet Archeology ”, 1959, No. 2 (list of works).