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'''Russian archaeology''' begins in the [[Russian Empire]] in the 1850s and becomes [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] archaeology in the early 20th century.  
The journal ''[[Sovetskaya arkheologiya]]'' is published from 1957.

==Archaeologists==
{{see also|List of Russian archaeologists}}
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! Name
! Born
! Died
! Specialization
! Achievements

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| [[Aleksey Uvarov]] 
| 1825
| 1884
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| [[Dmitry Samokvasov]] 
| 1843
| 1911
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| [[Dmitry Nikolayevich Anuchin]] 
| 1843
| 1923
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| [[Nikodim Kondakov]] 
| 1844
| 1925
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| [[Fyodor Uspensky]] 
| 1845
| 1928
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| [[Nikolay Veselovsky]] 
| 1848
| 1918
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| [[Alexandr Spitsyn]] 
| 1858
| 1931
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| [[Vasilij Gorodtsov]] 
| 1860
| 1945
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| [[Boris Farmakovsky]] 
| 1870
| 1928
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| [[Michael Rostovtzeff]] 
| 1870
| 1952
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| [[Sergei Rudenko]] 
| 1885
| 1969
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| [[Mikhail Illarionovich Artamonov|Mikhail Artamonov]] 
| 1898
| 1972
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| [[Boris Grakov]] 
| 1899
| 1970
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| [[Artemiy Artsikhovsky]] 
| 1902
| 1978
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| [[Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov|Mikhail Gerasimov]] 
| 1907
| 1970
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| [[Alexey Okladnikov]] 
| 1908
| 1981
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| [[Boris Piotrovsky]] 
| 1908
| 1990
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| [[Boris Rybakov]] 
| 1908
| 2001
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| [[Leo Klejn]]
| 1927
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| [[Vladimir Masson]]
| 1929
| 2010
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| [[Viktor Sarianidi]] 
| 1929
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| [[Valentin Yanin]] 
| 1929
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| [[Anatoly Kirpichnikov]] 
| 1929
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| [[Yelena Yefimovna Kuzmina|Yelena Kuzmina]]
| 1931
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| [[Boris Marshak]] 
| 1933
| 2006
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| [[Evgeny Chernykh]] 
| 1935
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| [[Mark Shchukin]] 
| 1937
| 2008
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| [[Pavel Dolukhanov]]
| 1937
| 2009
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| [[Dmitry Machinsky]] 
| 1937
| 2012
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| [[Gleb Lebedev]] 
| 1943
| 2003
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| [[Natalia Polosmak]]
| 1956
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==Sites==
[[File:Hermonassa 2.JPG|thumb|right|300px|Excavation of [[Hermonassa]] ([[Tmutarakan]]), September 2008]]
{{see|Kurgan|Eurasian nomads}}
major archaeological cultures and sites in Russia
**[[Kermek]] ([[:ru:Кермек (стоянка)]])
**[[Bogatyri/Sinyaya Balka]] ([[:ru:Богатыри/Синяя балка]])
**[[Palaeolithic site Kostyonki]]
**[[Sungir]]
**[[Yana Rhinoceros Horn Site|Yana RHS]] ([[:ru:Янская стоянка]])
**[[Afontova Gora]]
*[[Mal'ta–Buret' culture]] (Upper Paleolithic)
*[[Khvalynsk culture]] (Eneolithic)
*[[Fatyanovo–Balanovo culture]] (Chalcolithic)
*[[Novotitorovka culture]] (Early Bronze Age)
*[[Maykop culture]] (Early Bronze Age)
**[[Maykop kurgan]]
*[[Yamna culture]]
*[[Afanasevo culture]] (Early Bronze Age)
*[[Abashevo culture]] (Bronze Age)
*[[Andronovo culture]] (Middle to Late Bronze Age)
**[[Arkaim]]
**[[Sintashta]]
*[[Srubna culture]] (Late Bronze to Iron Age)
*[[Tanais]] (Late Bronze to Iron Age)
*[[Pazyryk culture]] (Iron Age)
*[[Tmutarakan]]
*[[Staraya Ladoga]] (Viking Age)
*[[Rurikovo Gorodische]]
*[[Gnezdovo|Gnyozdovo]]
*[[Sarkel]] (9th century)

==Literature==
*B. Trigger, A History of Archaeological Thought, McGill University, Montréal, pp.&nbsp;327ff.
*Mikhail Miller, Archaeology in the U.S.S.R, New York (1956).

==See also==
*[[History of archaeology]]
*[[History of Russia]]
*[[History of Central Asia]]
*[[Scythia]]
*[[Kurgan hypothesis]]
*[[List of Russian historians]]

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