Pavel Dmitrievich Stepanov ( November 14, 1898 - January 27, 1974 ) - archaeologist, ethnographer, historian, doctor of historical sciences, professor, who first distinguished Primokshan culture [1] [2] .
| Pavel Dmitrievich Stepanov | |
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| Date of Birth | November 14, 1898 |
| Place of Birth | Saratov , Saratov Province , Russian Empire |
| Date of death | January 27, 1974 (aged 75) |
| Place of death | Saransk , Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic , USSR |
| A country |  Russian Empire →  the USSR |
| Scientific field | archeology , ethnography |
| Place of work | Saransk Pedagogical Institute |
| Alma mater | |
| Academic degree | Doctor of Historical Sciences |
| Academic rank | professor ( 1971 ) |
| Awards and prizes | Honored Scientist of the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ( 1968 ) |
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Biography
Born on November 14, 1898 in Saratov [1] . In 1915 , having graduated from the Saratov four- year school, he entered the service at the Saratov post office. Subsequently, he worked at the Ulesha and Saratov stations of the Ryazan-Ural Railway [2] . At the same time, I went to general education courses at the Saratov Conservatory . In 1925 he graduated from the linguistic department of the pedagogical faculty of Saratov State University named after N. G. Chernyshevsky [1] .
In the period from 1922 to 1932 he was a research associate and subsequently the head of the ethnographic department of the Saratov Regional Museum of Local Lore [2] , and from 1934 to 1938 the head of the history department of the same museum [1] .
In the period from 1927 to 1932 he was an assistant at the Department of Archeology and Ethnography of the University of Saratov . In 1932–34 in the Far East : head of the local history center of the Tuguro-Chumikan cultural base of the Khabarovsk Territory . In 1935 - 1938, a senior researcher at the Lower Volga Institute of Local History in the city of Saratov . In 1938 - 1940, head of the history department of the Komi Republican Museum in Syktyvkar , at the same time taught archeology at the Komi State Pedagogical Institute [1] .
In 1940 he moved to Saransk [2] . In the period from 1940 to 1941 and from 1945 to 1946, a senior researcher in the history sector of the Mordovian Research Institute. From 1941 to 1942 he was the head of the planning and financial department of the Office of Filmification under the Council of People's Commissars of the Mordovian ASSR [1] .
From 1942 to 1945 he was the squad leader and company commander in the spare parts of the Red Army [1] . In 1946 he received a Ph.D. in historical sciences for the monograph “ The History of the Mordovian People from Ancient Times to the 16th Century ” [2] . In the same year, having returned to Saratov , he began to teach at the Department of History of the USSR of the Saratov State Pedagogical Institute and the University of Saratov . Since 1949 , after receiving the title of assistant professor , he becomes the head of the department, retaining this status until 1952 [1] . In 1959 he retired [2] .
Since 1965, he worked at the Mordovian Research Institute of YALIE (since 1968, head of the sector of archeology and ethnography), at the Department of History of the USSR, Mordovian State University ( 1970 - 1974 ). In 1968, for the monograph “ Osh Pando ” ( 1967 ), he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences [1] , and on March 1, 1971, the rector of Mordovian State University Alexander Ivanovich Sukharev awarded him the title of professor [2] .
P.D. Stepanov died on January 27, 1974 in a hospital. It is noteworthy that under the hospital pillow after his death they found a draft of his new work [2] .
Scientific activity
As an archaeologist, P. D. Stepanov is considered a student of Pavel Sergeevich Rykov , in whose expeditions he participated in his student years [2] . In the early 1920s, he participated in an ethnographic expedition to the Chuvash villages of the Khvalynsky district of the Saratov province , and also published materials on Saratov Chuvash in scientific publications. Since 1940, under his leadership, about 40 archaeological expeditions have been carried out [2] , which have provided great material for the archaeological map of the Middle Volga . He studied the monuments of the Imenkovsky culture , allocated Primokshan culture of the Bronze Age [1] .
In 1950, 1952, 1954, 1956, an archaeological expedition under his leadership conducted exploratory research in the western and northwestern parts of Chuvashia . He discovered about 20 settlements with Balanovo ( Fatyanovo ) ceramics in the republic, after which the existence of Balanovo (Fatyanov.) Settlements became a recognized fact. The materials of the settlement he studied in 1950 in the lower layers of the Izvankinsky settlement “Hula çuchĕ” in the Alikovsky district gave the name to the final Hulasiu stage of the Balanovo culture. In 1962, he also prepared and published a detailed archaeological map of the western part of the Middle Volga region, including the territory of Chuvashia. He is the author of more than 60 scientific papers [1] .
Bibliography
- About Fatyanovo settlements // Soviet Archeology. 1958. No. 2.
- New Fatyanovo monuments in the Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic // Soviet Archeology. 1958. No. 4.
- Materials for the archaeological map of the western part of the Middle Volga // Transactions of the Kuybyshev archaeological expedition. M., 1962.V. 4.
- Stepanov P.D. Traces of the southern culture of the Bronze Age in the Moksha river basin // Brief Communications of the Institute of the History of Material Culture of the USSR Academy of Sciences. - M., 1955. - Issue. 59.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Encyclopedia | Stepanov Pavel Dmitrievich . enc.cap.ru. Date of treatment January 10, 2018.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 E. Gorshkova. In memory of Pavel Dmitrievich Stepanov (Russian) // Archaeological Bulletin. - 2011. - September ( No. 2 ). - S. 10 .
Literature
- Arsentiev, Nikolai Mikhailovich. Pavel Dmitrievich Stepanov, 1898-1974 / N.M. Arsentyev, V.I. Vikhlyaev, K.I. Shapkarin. - Saransk: Type. "Kras. Oct.", 1997. - 110 p. - ISBN 5-7493-0116-8 .
- Research P.D. Stepanova and ethnocultural processes of antiquity and modernity: materials of the international scientific conference dedicated to the 100th anniversary of P.D. Stepanova / N. M. Arsentyev. - Type of. "Kras. Oct.", 1998. - 274 p.